Hermann Baumann (social anthropologist)

Hermann Baumann ( born February 9, 1902 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † June 30, 1972 in Munich) was a German ethnologist, Africanist and cultural historian.

Life

One of the most comprehensive works of the German- African Studies, edited by him, posthumously published masterpiece The peoples of Africa and their traditional cultures bears his name. It is from the work of Ethnology of Africa emerged with particular reference to the colonial mission, have attended by Diedrich Westermann and Richard Thurnwald cooperated.

Baumann was the head of the Eurasian Department of the Berlin Ethnological Museum (now the Museum of Ethnology ) and editor of the Journal of Ethnology.

Baumann has taught at the University of Vienna ( 1939-45 ) at the Institute of Ethnology in Munich and at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University ( 1955-72 ).

Beatrix Heintze, Hermann Amborn and Klaus E. Müller is among his pupils. László Vajda was his assistant of 1957 until 1962.

He was an early member of the NSDAP, and worked intensively on plans for colonial expansion and re-conquest of Hitler Germany in Africa - but they were never realized by the course of the war. With the work-up of his involvement in the tasks of the colonial ethnography of the Third Reich has now started to his former haunts.

Writings

  • The Mannbarkeitsfeiern at the Tsokwe (NO Angola, West Africa) and its neighbors. Reimer, Berlin 1932 ( Baessler-Archiv. contributions to ethnology. Volume XV / Issue 1 )
  • Creation and prehistory of man in the myth of the African peoples. Published with the support of the National Museums in Berlin ( Baesslerstiftung ) and the International Institute of African Languages ​​and Cultures. Dietrich Reimer / Andrews & Steiner Verlag, Berlin 1936
  • With Richard Thurnwald, Diedrich Westermann: Ethnography of Africa: with special reference to colonial task. Essen ET - Anst, eating 1940.
  • Colonial Ethnology, colonial language research, colonial racial research: Reports on the work session in January 1943 in Leipzig. Reimer / Andrews & Steiner, Berlin 1943
  • As editor: Colonial Ethnology, I. In collaboration m. d Kolonialwiss. I.d. department d Reich Research Council German Research Foundation ed. ( Vienna contributions to the cultural history and linguistics, Volume 6). Horn: Ferd. Berger, 1944 ( With contributions by W. Becker- Donner, Mattenklodt, TM Bettini, H. v. Sicard and H. Baumann )
  • Fritz Valjavec (ed.): Historia Mundi. A handbook of world history in ten volumes. Founded by Fritz Kern. Volume 1: Early mankind. From Santiago Alcoba y Noguer, Hermann Baumann, Renato Biasutti among others With a fold-out chronology. Francke, Bern 1952
  • The double Gender: ethnological studies on bisexuality in ritual and myth. Reimer, Berlin 1955
  • African sculpture and sacral kingship. A social aspect of traditional African art. ( = Bavarian Academy of Sciences / Philosophy and Historic class. Sitzungsberichte born 1968 Issue 5 ). Beck, Munich 1969
  • The peoples of Africa and their traditional cultures. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1975-1979 ( Studies on Contemporary Culture, 34 and 35) Part 1 General Part and Southern Africa
  • Part 2 East, West and North Africa
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