Roland Hardenberg

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Roland Hardenberg

Roland Josef Hardenberg (* 1967 in Münster , Westphalia ) is a German ethnologist . From 2009 to 2016 he was director of the Department of Ethnology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and from 2013 to 2017 he was deputy spokesman for the SFB 1070 "Resource Cultures: Socio-cultural Dynamics in the Use of Resources". In October 2016 he switched to a professorship for social and cultural anthropology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and took over the management of the Frobenius Institute in 2017 . From 2017 to 2020 he was also Managing Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology at Goethe University. Together with Holger Jebens he publishes the scientific journal Paideuma: Journal for cultural anthropological research . He is also co-editor of the series studies on cultural studies .

biography

Roland Hardenberg studied ethnology, modern history , political science and Southeast Asian studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1988 to 1990, at Oxford Brookes University (formerly Oxford Polytechnic) from 1990 to 1991 and at the Free University of Berlin from 1991 to 1994. Im In 1998 he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a doctoral thesis on The Rebirth of the Gods: Ritual and Society in Orissa and was then a research assistant in the Department of Ethnology.

In 2001 he moved to the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University , where he worked until 2005. In 2006 he completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. The title of his habilitation thesis is Children of the Earth Goddess: Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Orissa .

From 2006 to 2007 he was a substitute professor at the ethnological institutes of the Free University of Berlin and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . From 2007 to 2009 he headed the research project “Funeral Cultures in Kyrgyzstan”.

In 2009 he accepted the call as W3 professor at the Department of Ethnology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, where he taught and headed the department until September 2016.

In October 2016 he accepted the call to a W3 professorship for ethnology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and in January 2017 he became the new director of the Frobenius Institute as the successor to Karl-Heinz Kohl .

Research priorities

Roland Hardenberg researches socio-cultural structures in South and Central Asia. He is interested in culture-specific ideas and values ​​that form the framework for social practice. Based on ethnographic studies in India and Kyrgyzstan , his research aims to understand local practices that express shared socio-cosmic ideas.

He pays special attention to those cultural phenomena that, from the point of view of local communities, are particularly closely linked to their own identity and worldview. In India and Kyrgyzstan, this includes in particular religious practices such as rituals , sacrifices , pilgrimages and burials as well as exchanges , which suggest special concepts of “kinship”, “friendship”, “neighborhood” etc. Hardenberg's approach is comparative, with the aim of understanding cultural differences and similarities.

In methodological terms, Hardenberg works with empirical field research techniques in the context of long-term inpatient stays, mainly in rural areas of South and Central Asia. Hardenberg's systematic contributions to ethnology include topics such as cultural comparison , exchange of gifts , hierarchy , house societies and 'New Kinship'.

Within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1070 at the University of Tübingen, Roland Hardenberg, together with other scientists, has developed cultural-scientific approaches to resources and developed concepts such as "resource complexes" and "resource cultures". On the basis of comparative studies on ritual economies, he coined the term "socio-cosmic field".

His current research interest focuses in particular on the processes involved in dealing (production, distribution and consumption) with different types of millet and on the question of which factors contribute to the rise and fall of millet as a staple food in India and Africa.

Field research

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Hardenberg, Roland. Children of the Earth Goddess: Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Odisha . De Gruyter, Berlin 2018 (paperback edition 2019).
  • Hardenberg, Roland. The Renewal of Jagannatha's Body. Ritual and Society in Orissa . (Revised, English translation by R. Hardenberg, 1999, The Rebirth of the Gods ) Manak Publications, New Delhi 2011.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. King without a kingdom: rituals of kingship in Orissa (India) . (2nd completely revised edition, 2000, ideology of a Hindu royalty ) Schiler, Berlin 2008.

editor

  • Hardenberg, Roland (ed.). Approaching Ritual Economy: Socio-Cosmic Fields in Globalized Contexts . SFB 1070 Publications, Tübingen 2016.
  • Hardenberg, Roland (ed.). Asian World Views. Context and Structure. Journal of Social Sciences (special edition) , 4/4, Delhi: Kamla Raj. 2000.
  • Berger, Peter; Roland Hardenberg; Ellen Kattner & Michael Prager (eds.). An Anthropology of Values. Essays in honor of Georg Pfeffer . New Delhi: Pearson / Longman. 2010.
  • Scholz, Anke K; Martin Bartelheim, Roland Hardenberg & Jörn Staecker (eds.), ResourceCultures. Sociocultural Dynamics and the Use of Resources - Theories, Methods, Perspectives.  SFB Publications: Tübingen. 2017.
  • Hardenberg, Roland & Holger Jebens (eds.). Paideuma: Zeitschrift für Kulturanthropologische Forschung / Journal of Cultural Anthropology Reimer Verlag (before 2018: Kohlhammer). Annual publication.

Essays

  • Berger, Peter & Roland Hardenberg. "Cereal Belongings - a cultural perspective on cereals as resource." In: Paideuma: Zeitschrift für Kulturanthropologische Forschung / Journal of Cultural Anthropology 64: 2018: 167–181.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. “Grains as socio-cosmic resources in Odisha / India and Beyond. Rice and Millets in Competition. " In: Paideuma: Zeitschrift für Kulturanthropologische Forschung / Journal of Cultural Anthropology 64: 2018: 265–283.
  • Hardenberg, Roland, “Dongria Kond: Perspectivism in Tribal India”, in: Brill's Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online , Marine Carrin (Editor-in-Chief), Michel Boivin, Gérard Toffin, Paul Hockings, Raphaël Rousseleau, Tanka Subba, Harald Lambs-Tyche (Section Editors). <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2665-9093_BERO_COM_031977>
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Sacrifice, in: International Encyclopedia of Anthropology , ed. H. Callan, Vol. 12 (ed. By Simon Coleman). Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002 / 9781118924396.wbiea2258 2018.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. "From Durkheim to Hocart: Sacred Resources and the Quest for 'life'." In: Durkheimian Studies / Etudes Durkheimiennes 23: , 2017: 40-56.
  • Bartelheim, Martin; Roland Hardenberg & Joern Staecker. The 'Resource Turn': A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Resources, in: AK Scholz, M. Bartelheim, R. Hardenberg and Jörn Staecker (eds.), ResourceCultures. Sociocultural Dynamics and the Use of Resources - Theories, Methods, Perspectives . SFB Publications: Tübingen. 2017: 13–24.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Beyond Economy and Religion. Resources and Socio-cosmic Fields in Odisha, India. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 7, 2016: 83–96.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Those who spread from one father ”: The Cultural Elaboration of Segmentation and Inclusion in Kïrgïzstan, in: L. Prager / M. Prager / G. Sprenger (eds.), Parts and Wholes. Essays on Social Morphology, Cosmology, and Exchange in Honor of JDM Platenkamp . Zurich: Lit Verlag. 2016: 105-124.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals, in: P. Berger / J. Kroesen (eds.), Ultimate Ambiguities Investigating Death and Liminality . New York & Oxord: Berghahn Books. 2015: 125-146.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Collective, communicative and cultural memories: examples of local historiography from northern Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey (Special issue: Local History as an Identity Discipline) 3/31, 2012: 265-276.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. The cultural shaping of death in non-western societies. Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift (Funeral Culture in the Present) 2/2012, 2012: 335–359.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. The Efficacy of Funeral Rituals in Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Ritual Studies 24/1, 2010: 29–43.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Reconsidering 'tribe', 'clan' and 'relatedness': A comparison of social categorization in Central and South Asia. Scrutiny: A Journal of International and Pakistan Studies 1/1, 2009: 37–62.
  • Hardenberg, Roland. Categories of Relatedness: Rituals as a Form of Classification in a Middle Indian Society. Contributions to Indian Sociology 43/1, 2009: 61-87.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Department of Ethnology
  2. ↑ SFB 1070 "Resource Cultures"
  3. ↑ Page of the Frobenius Institute ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frobenius-institut.de
  4. ^ Paideuma - Frobenius Institute Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Studies in cultural studies - Frobenius Institute Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ “Funeral cultures in Kyrgyzstan”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uni-tuebingen.de  
  7. ↑ Research profile . Retrieved January 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Martin Bartelheim, Roland Hardenberg, Thomas Knopf, Anke. K. Scholz, Joern Staecker: 'ResourceCultures' - A concept for investigating the use of resources in different societies . In: A. Danielisová, M. Fernández-Götz, K. Kowarik (Eds.): Persistent economic ways of living - Production, distribution, and consumption in Iron Age and Early Medieval period. Archaeolingua, Budapest 2015, p. 33-43 .
  9. ↑ Roland Hardenberg (Ed.): Approaching Ritual Economy: Socio-Cosmic Fields in Globalized Contexts. SFB 1070 Publications, Tübingen 2016.
  10. ↑ Volume 64 (2018) - Frobenius Institute Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hardenberg, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardenberg, Roland Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster