Thomas Reinhardt (ethnologist)
Thomas Reinhardt (* 1964 in Wiesbaden ) is a German ethnologist .
Life
From 1986 to 1990 he studied Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies and Ethnology in Frankfurt am Main and from 1990 to 1995 Ethnology and German Studies in Basel (1995 Licentiatus philosophiae at the University of Basel ). From 1997 to 2001 he was a lecturer and academic employee in the field of cultural anthropology at the University of Paderborn . After receiving his doctorate in historical ethnology in 1999 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , he was a lecturer in historical ethnology at the Goethe University from 2000 to 2001. In 2001 he was an Independent Scholar in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York's Scholars in Residence Program. From 2001 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Frobenius Institute . After his habilitation in 2005 in historical ethnology at the Goethe University (appointment as a private lecturer ), he was a research assistant at the research college “Media and Cultural Communication” at the University of Cologne from 2005 to 2008 . In 2007 he held a professorship in African Studies at the University of Cologne. From 2009 to 2012 he was a research assistant in teaching at the LMU Munich .
Since 2012 he has been an adjunct professor for ethnology at the LMU Munich. In 2014 he was Chaire Alfred Grosser at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris .
His main research interests are diaspora and postcolonial studies, anthropology of the media, visual anthropology, semiotics, the history and methods of ethnology, the history of knowledge and science, and politics of memory. His regional focus is Africa and Afro America.
Fonts
- Beyond writing. Postmodern Dialogical Anthropology . Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-88939-566-X .
- History of Afrocentrism. Imagined Africa and African American Identity . Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-17-019947-1 .
- Claude Lévi-Strauss as an introduction . Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-658-3 .
- An ethnologist in the Panthéon. The extraordinary life of Germaine Tillion (1907–2008). A biblio-biographical sketch . Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-945254-20-2 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reinhardt, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |