Christian Giordano

Christian Giordano ( born October 27, 1945 in Lugano, Switzerland ) is a Swiss social scientists and ordinary since 1989 Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg ( Switzerland ). He is Dr. h c. the University of the West Timişoara in Romania.

Life

Before he began to study sociology, anthropology, art history and romance languages ​​at the University of Heidelberg, he studied law and economics at the University of Bern.

In 1973 he was in sociology at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on " artisans and farmers' organizations in the Sicilian society. Guilds, Handwerkerkonfraternitäten and working mutual aid societies 1750-1890 " PhD.

In 1987 he habilitated with the Venia Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt am Main with the publication "The dupes of history. Superposition mentality and overlay rationality in Mediterranean societies ". His research interests include the political and economic anthropology, ethnicity, nationalism, citizenship, rural restructuring in South Eastern and Central Europe, the political culture in the Mediterranean and the problems of multicultural coexistence in Southeast Asia.

In a much-publicized essay for the Federal Commission against Racism, he proposes to better integrate front immigrant people from distant cultures, the legal principle that all are equal before the law abolished. The alternative would be a legal pluralism.

Giordano comes one of the first science-based concepts for European cultural areas, which he calls "Europe's historic regions".

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