Susanne Kuehling

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Susanne Kuehling is a German anthropologist and ethnologist . She is a professor at the University of Regina in Canada.

research

Kuehling is interested in researching small matrilineal communities with matrilocal property allocation, especially in Micronesia and Melanesia . She obtained her MA at the University of Göttingen in 1989 with a thesis on the chewing of betel in Melanesia. She then studied from 1994 to 1998 at the Australian National University and received scholarships from the ANU and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . She completed her scientific training in Australia in 1999 with a thesis on the kula ritual of exchanging gifts on the island of Dobu, part of Papua New Guinea . She taught at Heidelberg University for five years before moving to Canada in 2008. For field studies she stayed on the islands of Dobu and Woleai in Micronesia from 1992–1994, 1997 and 2004 . Her work on Dobu mainly explored the practice of sharing and keeping to oneself in the island economy, her more recent research has focused on the relationship of islanders to their land in Micronesia and communities of migrants in Guam and Saipan . Her areas of interest are also the ethnography of New Guinea and Micronesia, the anthropology of gender and landscape, and the history of anthropology.

reception

In her work on Dobu Island, Kuehling questions the image of Dobu drawn by Reo Fortune and Ruth Benedict as a paranoid and warlike society. In her presentation she includes the economic situation of the islanders as workers in indenture contracts and their peripheral position in the global economy and paints a less static picture of their society. The more positive portrayal was received very positively by the islanders, who were not at all informed about their portrait as the "villain" in older studies, but has so far received less attention in university ethnology than Benedict's older studies.

In 2015, Kuehling received an award from the University of Regina for innovative teaching methods.

Works (selection)

  • The name of the gift: ethics of exchange on Dobu Island. PhD thesis Australian National University 1998 (English; download page ).
  • Dobu: ethics of exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea. Hawaii University, Honolulu 2005 (English).
  • The Converted War Canoe: Cannibal Raiders, Missionaries and Pax Britannica on Dobu Island, Papua New Guinea. In: Anthropologica. Volume 56, No. 2, 2014, pp. 269-284 (English).
  • A Fat Sow Named Skulfi: "Expensive" Words in Dobu Island Society. In: Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone, Anna Paini: Tides of Innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place. Anu Press, Canberra 2017, pp. 193–224 (English; PDF: 282 kB, 33 pages on anu.edu.au).
  • Standing tall: Posture, ethics and emotions in Dobu. In: James J. Fox (Ed.): Expressions of Austronesian Thought and Emotions. Anu Press, Canberra 2018, ISBN 9-781-76046191-1 (English; online at anu.edu.au).
  • Works by Susanne Kuehling in the Trobiand bibliography in Depth , March 2018, pp. 117–119

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “We die for kula” —An object-centered view of motivations and strategies in gift exchange , The Polynesian Society, Vol 126 No 2, 2017
  2. ^ Trobriand in Depth , Bibliography, March 2018 , p. 117
  3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Dr. Susanne Kuehling (PhD) , Trobiand in Depth
  4. ^ The name of the gift: ethics of exchange on Dobu Island
  5. ^ CV on the University of Regina website
  6. ↑ Antrosio, Jason. 2013. “When Culture Looks Like Race: Dobu & Reification.” Living Anthropologically, 2013/2019 /
  7. ↑ Antrosio, Jason. 2013. "Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict (1934) wins Jared Diamond (2012)." Living Anthropologically, 2013
  8. ^ University of Regina, Awards
  9. ↑ Review by Caroline Thomas: Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea by Susanne Kuehling. In: Paideuma . Volume 55, 2009, pp. 301-302 (English; JSTOR 40342055 ).
  10. ↑ Review by Keith Hart: Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea by Susanne Kuehling. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Volume 15, No. 1, 2009, pp. 216-217 (English; JSTOR 20527680 ).
  11. ↑ Review by Martha Macintyre: Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea by Susanne Kuehling. In: Pacific Affairs. Volume 79, No. 4, 2006/2007, pp. 712-713 (English; JSTOR 40023812 ).
  12. ↑ Review by Holger Jebens: Dobu: ethics of exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea by Susanne Kuehling. In Zeitschrift für Ethnologie . Volume 134, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 285-288 (English; JSTOR 25843197 ).
personal data
SURNAME Kuehling, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist, anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century