Hans Peter Hahn Explained

Hans Peter Hahn
Birth Date:1963
Birth Place:Germany
Nationality:German
Occupation:ethnologist
Sub Discipline:
  • Sociology

Hans Peter Hahn (born 1963) is a German ethnologist, member of the board of the (VAD E.V.) and program officer of the 'Franco-German Master of Arts : Ethnology and its German-French perspectives' (degree program variant of the Master of Arts Social and Cultural Anthropology).[1]

Biography

From 1984 to 1989 Hans Peter Hahn studied ethnology, archeology and biology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From 1989 to 1994 he was a research associate in the collaborative research program Culture and Environment in West African savanna (SFB 268). From 1995 to 1996 he studied as a postdoc at the graduate school Intercultural Relations in Africa at the University of Bayreuth where he worked from 1996 to 2006 as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethnology.[2] After his PhD in Frankfurt 1994 he has been teaching as a full professor for ethnology with a regional focus on West Africa at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Hahn heads the graduate school on "value and equivalent".[3] During his stay as a fellow at the DFG College Research Group 2615 – Free University of Berlin (April–September 2019), Hahn examined the role of material culture for social differentiation. While there are numerous ethnographic examples of the 'architecture of power', important anthropologists, e.g. Edmund Leach, criticized such a linking of objects and meaning.[4] Together with Aegidia Souto and Jean-Louis Georget, he also directed a Franco-German doctoral college entitled 'Representing the 'Other': Museums, Universities, Ethnology' at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3. The college focuses on the future of ethnological collections and museums. It contributes to the internationalization of the debate and to clarify the status of collections, especially those with holdings from colonial contexts. It started its work on 1 January 2023.[5]

Research focus

West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo), material culture, ethnological museums, consumption, migration and mobility, and globalization.[6]

Publications (selection)

Monographs
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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hans Peter Hahn . Clio-online . 12 October 2023 . de . 12 October 2023.
  2. Web site: Hans Peter Hahn . Morphomata Uni Köln . de . 12 October 2023.
  3. https://www.topoi.org/person/hahn-hans-peter/ Excellence Cluster
  4. Web site: Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn . Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften . 12 October 2023 . de . 12 October 2023.
  5. Web site: Neues Doktorandenkolleg zur Rolle ethnologischer Museen . Informationsdienst Wissenschaft – Nachrichten . 13 May 2022 . de . 12 October 2023.
  6. Web site: Hahn, Hans-Peter . Topoi . 31 October 2019 . 12 October 2023.

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