Rüdiger Schott

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Rüdiger Schott (born December 10, 1927 in Bonn ; † December 7, 2012 there ) was a German ethnologist and narrative researcher .

Career

Between 1947 and 1953 , Schott studied ethnology , geography , prehistory and early history , religious studies and psychology at the University of Bonn , where he then worked as a research assistant until 1958 . In 1954 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Beginnings of the private and planned economy . From 1961 he worked as an assistant at the Freiburg office for cultural studies research (later the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute ). In 1964 he completed his habilitation with the work Social Relations between Ethnic Groups in South Africa at the University of Bonn. In the following year he became full professor of ethnology at the University of Münster ; Since 1993 he is professor emeritus .

The main research areas (focus: [West] Africa) of Rüdiger Schott were in the ethnology of religion, the legal and economic ethnology as well as in the social and cultural change of traditional societies .

Publications

  • Beginnings of the private and planned economy. Economic order and food distribution among wild-hunting peoples. Braunschweig 1955.
  • African narratives as sources of religion and ethnology. Shown using the example of stories from the Bulsa in Northern Ghana. Opladen 1990 (Lectures / Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Humanities; G 305).
  • Oracle and sacrificial cults among the peoples of the West African savannah. Opladen 1997 (Lectures / North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Humanities; G 348).

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SURNAME Schott, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and narrative researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2012
Place of death Bonn