Regina Bendix

Regina Bendix

Regina Bendix (* 1958 in Brugg , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss cultural anthropologist and ethnologist . She is professor for cultural anthropology / European ethnology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Life

After graduating from the Aarau Cantonal School in 1978 , Bendix began studying folklore , linguistics and ethnology at the University of Zurich in 1978 . She went to the United States in 1980 and graduated from the University of California with a bachelor's degree in folklore in 1982 . 1984 followed the master's degree at Indiana University . In 1987 she successfully completed her doctoral studies at the same university. From 1988 she was a research assistant at Lewis and Clark College in Portland (Oregon) and at the University of California. In the early 1990s, Bendix returned to Switzerland and worked in 1991/92 with a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in Basel , where she also taught folklore. In 1992/93 she then took a Guggenheim grant for a year of research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then worked for six years as a research assistant for folklore and folklore at the University of Pennsylvania .

In 1997/98 she returned to Europe and held visiting professorships in cultural anthropology and ethnology Europaea at the University of Vienna . In 1999 she returned to the University of Pennsylvania as Associate Professor of Folklore and Anthropology and also held the Graduate Chair of Folklore and Folklife. In 2001 she was finally appointed to the C4 professorship in folklore in Göttingen. In the same year she was elected President of the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore and held this position until 2008. From 2008 to 2012 she was director of the Center for Theory and Methodology of Cultural Studies at the University of Göttingen. In 2015 she was co-editor of the anthropological journal Ethnologia Europaea .

Research priorities

Bendix combines topics from business, politics and culture with anthropology. She is interested in the scientific history of folklore, folklore, ethnology and cultural anthropology, researches communication and storytelling, rituals and customs and culinary arts. School culture has also formed a further focus in recent years.

Fonts (selection)

Authorship

• New Year's Eve in Urnäsch . Publishing Association, St. Gallen 1984
• Progress and Nostalgia: New Year's Eve in Urnäsch . University of California Press, Berkeley 1985
• Backstage Domains: Playing William Tell in Two Swiss Communities . Peter Lang, New York / Bern 1989
• American Folklore: An Introduction . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1995
• In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1997
• with Kilian Bizer and Dorothy Noyes: Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy . University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2017

Editing

• with Gudrun Schwibbe: At night - ways to other worlds . Schmerse, Göttingen 2004
• with John Bendix: Sleepers, Moles and Martyrs . Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2004
• with Dorothee Hemme and Markus Tauschek: Heritage rating: Value creation from cultural resources . Berlin 2007
• with Ulrich Marzolph: hearing, reading, seeing, feeling: fairytale reception in a European comparison . Hohengehren 2008
• with Alois Wierlacher: Culinary. Research - teaching - practice . LIT-Verlag, Münster 2008
• with Kilian Bizer and Stefan Groth: The Constitution of Cultural Property: Research Perspectives. (= Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property, Volume 1) Göttingen University Press, Göttingen 2010.
• with Galit Hasan-Rokem : Folklore Companion . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2012
• with Stefan Groth and Achim Spiller: Culture as property: instruments, cross-sections and case studies . (= Göttingen Studies on Cultural Property, Volume 9) Göttingen University Press, Göttingen 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at the University of Göttingen
2. ^ History of the SIEF, accessed on February 24, 2017