Prof. Dr. Christoph Antweiler

Christoph Antweiler
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Academic Profile

Christoph Antweiler focuses on dependent economic and personal relations pertaining to work in Southeast Asia. Work relations, for example in Indonesia, tend to be subdivided into several steps involving several people between the customer and the contractor. If someone wants to build a house, he hires one individual as a contractor who then organizes the building team and large parts of the building planning and implementation. In doing this, he often uses relatives or people dependent on him or who owe him from earlier dependent relations. This creates a chain of patron-client relations often involving semi-free work relations.

19monographs, 9 edited volumes, 135 academic papers, 24 dissertations as main supervisor (since 2005),

1996
Habilitation and Venia Legendi in General Cultural Anthropology

1987
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology

1975–1983
Diploma Studies in Geology and Palaeontology, University of Cologne, Germany

since 2008         
Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

1996
Professor for Cultural Anthropology and Director of Institute, University of Trier, Germany

1990–1995
Research Associate, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany; two years as Managing Assistant
 
 

2003
Professor C4 for Southeast Asia Studies, University of Passau, Germany

2014
Lehrpreis Universität Bonn

1991–1994
Scholarship of the Thyssen Foundation for Postdoctoral Qualification (Habilitation)

2006–2008
Spokesperson of the DFG Cluster of Excellence "Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke: Historische Forschungen und Gegenwartsanalysen zu Chancen und Risiken einer sozialen Beziehungsform" [Social Dependencies and Social Networks: Historical Research and Current Analysis on the Opportunities and Risks of a Social Form of Relationship], Universities of Mainz and Trier, Germany

since 2010 
Member of the Advisory Board "Präsentationen der außereuropäischen Sammlungen im Humboldt-Forum" [Presentations of the Non-European Collections of the Humboldt Forum"], Humboldt-Forum], Berlin, Germany

2018 
Member of the Advisory Board "Hans-Kilian-Preises der Köhler-Stiftung" [Hans Kilian Prize of the Köhler Foundation]

Member of Academia Europaea, London, UK

Erasmus+ research and exchange project entitled "Fostering Multi-lateral Knowledge Networks of Transdisciplinary Studies to Tackle Global challenges" (2016–2019, approximately € 1 million)

  • 2025. Menschen machen Erdgeschichte. Unsere Welt im Anthropozän. München: Oekom.
  • 2024. Anthropology in the Anthropocene. An Earthed Theory for Our Extended Present. Anthropocene – Humanities and Social Sciences Series. Berlin et al.: Springer Nature.
  • 2016. Our Common Denominator. Human Universals Revisited. New York: Berghahn.
  • 2012. Inclusive Humanism. Anthropological Basics for a Realistic Cosmopolitanism. Reflections on (In) Humanity 4. Göttingen: V&R unipress.
  • 2012. "Kulturwissenschaft jenseits modischer Extreme. Ethnologie als Kulturanthropologie." In Was ist Kulturwissenschaft? Zehn Antworten aus den 'Kleinen Fächern,' edited by Stephan Conermann, 47–91. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • 2011. Mensch und Weltkultur. Für einen realistischen Kosmopolitismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures – Humanism in the Age of Globalization. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • 2011. "Interkulturalität in Südostasien – Migration als Motor der Genese von Kulturräumen." In Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Kulturwissenschaft. Grundbegriffe, Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, Kulturräume, edited by Christoph Barmeyer, Petia Genkova, and Jörg Scheffer, 499–518. Passau: Karl Stutz.
  • 2009. Was ist den Menschen gemeinsam? Über Kultur und Kulturen. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  • 2007. Grundpositionen interkultureller Ethnologie. Interkulturelle Bibliothek 79. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz.
  • 2003. Ethnologie lesen. Ein Führer durch den Bücher-Dschungel. Arbeitsbücher – Kulturwissenschaft 1. Munster: LIT-Verlag.
  • 2000. Urbane Rationalität. Eine stadtethnologische Studie zu Ujung Pandang (Makassar), Indonesien. Kölner ethnologische Mitteilungen 12. Berlin: Reimer.
  • 1998. "Ethnologie als gesellschaftlich relevante Humanwissenschaft. Systematisierung praxisorientierter Richtungen und eine Position." In Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 123(2): 215–255.

since 2022
"Ethnologie als Praxis / Anthropology as Practice," Berlin: Springer, together with Sabine Klocke-Daffa and Laila Prager

since 2019
"boasblogs papers," Bremen, Köln, Siegen: boasblogs, together with Michi Knecht, Ehler Voss, and Martin Zillinger

since 2016
Boasblogs, together with Michi Knecht, Ehler Voss, and Martin Zillinger (editors)

since 2004
"Southeast Asian Modernities," Münster et al: Lit Verlag, together with other colleagues (editors), 16 volumes published as of yet

since 2001
"Southeast Asian Dynamics," Münster et al: Lit Verlag and Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), editor, 3 volumes published as of yet

since 2001
"Fokus Kultur – Trierer Beiträge zur gegenwartsbezogenen Ethnologie," Norderstedt: Books on Demand, together with Michael Schönhuth (editors), 5 volumes published as of yet

since 2000
"Materialien zur Trierer Ethnologie," Trier: Selbstverlag, together with Michael Schönhuth (editors), 5 volumes published as of yet

since 1999
Working Papers, Abteilung Südostasienwissenschaft, IOA, Universität Bonn, together with other colleagues (editors), 26 volumes published as of yet