Ute Stoke

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Ute Schüren (* 1963 ) is a German ancient American scholar and ethnologist .

life and work

From 1983 Schüren studied ancient American studies, Latin American studies and ethnology at the Free University of Berlin with a master's degree in 1991 ( investigation into the determination and function of emblem hieroglyphs in classical Mayan inscriptions ). In 1991/92 she worked as a research assistant in the preparation of the exhibition The World of the Maya in Hildesheim's Roman Pelizäus Museum . She also taught in Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin and received her doctorate in ethnology at the Free University of Berlin in 2002 (dissertation: Rationality or irrationality of rural economy in the context of state politics? Household strategies in Mexican ejidos (The example of the Chenes region, Campeche) ) Until 2008 research assistant at the Latin America Institute there in the field of ancient American studies. From 2008 to 2012 she was assistant and senior assistant at the University of Bern (Historical Institute), where she was temporarily head of the Department of History and Cultures of Latin America. In 2014/15 she had teaching assignments in Lüneburg and Hanover. She has been at the Department of History at the University of Münster since 2016, where she heads the DFG project Cultural Change in Colonial Mexico: Generational Conflicts and Legal Pluralism in Indigenous Communities on the Yucatán Peninsula (16th - 19th centuries) .

She dealt with the Maya culture, but also the history of indigenous societies in rural Central America from the colonial times to the present. In 1985 she was involved in excavations in the Mayan ruins of Rio Azul (directed by Richard EW Evans, University of Texas at San Antonio).

From 1985 to 2009 she was editor and publisher of the magazine Mexicon (Current information and studies on Mesomerica / News and Studies on Mesoamerica / Noticias y Contribuciones sobre Mesoamerica). Since 1993 she has been regularly doing field studies in Mexico, particularly on the Yucatan Peninsula.

In 2016, together with Antje Gunsenheimer , she presented America Before the European Conquest , Volume 16 of Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte , a standard work that “sets standards”.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Antje Gunsenheimer: America before the European conquest , Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-010846-3
  • Editor with Daniel Segesser, Thomas Späth: Globalized Antiquity: Uses and Perceptions of the Past in India, Mesoamerica, and Europe , Berlin: Reimer Verlag 2015 (in it by Schüren: Heirs of the Ancient Maya: Indigenous Organizations and the Appropriation of History in Yucatán , Mexico and Guatemala , Mesoamerica: A Brief Introduction )
  • The Maya hieroglyphics: Insights into the historiography of ancient American societies , Ancient World, 2013, Issue 2, pp. 36–45.
  • Indigenous cultures before the European conquest. In: Friedrich Edelmayer, Bernd Hausberger and Barbara Potthast (eds.): Latin America, 1492–1850 / 70. Edition Weltregionen, Vienna, pp. 13–31.
  • Kazike , in Friedrich Jäger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Times, Metzler / Poeschel 2007
  • Reconceptualizing the Post-peasantry: Household Strategies in Mexican Ejidos. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe) 74, 2003, October, pp. 47-63.
  • La revolución tardía: Reforma agraria y cambio político en Campeche (1910–1940) . In: Ruth Gubler y Patricia Martel (eds.): Yucatán a través de los siglos. Mérida: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2001, pp. 285-318.
  • Economic Strategies of Rural Producers: A Comparison of Ejido and Mennonite Agriculture . In: Annelies Zoomers (Ed.): Land and Sustainable Livelihood. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 2001, pp. 209-228.
  • The price of freedom: Mexico's agriculture under the sign of neoliberalism. Latin America News, 289/290, July / August 1998, pp. 39-44.
  • Between planting stock and tractor: The agriculture of Yucatec smallholders in transition . In: Ellen Schriek and Hans-Walter Schmuhl (eds.): The other Mexico: Indigenous peoples from Chiapas to Chihuahua. Giessen: Focus (Critical University), 1997, pp. 114-134.
  • Land without Freedom, Mexico's Long Farewell to Agrarian Reform , in: Karin Gabbert (Ed.), Land und Freiheit (Latin America, Analyzes and Reports), Bad Honnef 1997, pp. 33–65
  • The Yaxchilan Emblem Glyphs: Indicators of Political Change and Expansion of a Classic Maya Polity , in: MEXICON XIV, 1992, 2, pp. 30-39.
  • Marriage and Expansion: The Importance of Women in Alliance Politics from Yaxchilán, Mexico , in: Das Altertum, Volume 38, 1992, pp. 99–213.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online
  2. ↑ Jonas Bens: Antje Gunsenheimer / Ute Schüren: America before the European conquest , in: Sehepunkte. Review journal for historical sciences, issue 17 (2017), No. 3
personal data
SURNAME Stoke, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German American scholar and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963