Hans Peter Hahn

Hans Peter Hahn (born 1963) is a German ethnologist, member of the board of the de:Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (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]

Hans Peter Hahn
Hahn, Table ronde in Lomé, 22 March 2023
Born1963
Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupationethnologist
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Biography

From 1984 to 1989 Hans Peter Hahn studied ethnology, archeology and biology at the Goethe University Frankfurt / M. 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.

Hans P. Hahn heads the graduate school on "value and equivalent".[3] During his stay as a fellow at the DFG College Research Group 2615 - FU-Berlin (April–September 2019), Hans P. 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 January 1, 2023.[5]

Research focus

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

Hahn at a meeting in Kollo-Zekka, Burkina Faso, September 2005, in conversation with the village delegate Matthias Cirapia

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • 2015 Vom Eigensinn der Dinge. Für eine neue Perspektive auf die Welt des Materiellen. Berlin: Neofelis
  • 2013: Ethnologie. Eine Einführung. Berlin: Suhrkamp
  • 2005: Materielle Kultur. Eine Einführung. Berlin: Reimer (2. ed. 2014)
  • 2002: Die Dinge des Alltags und materielle Kultur in Kollo (Kasena, Burkina Faso). (habilitation treatise, University of Bayreuth).
  • 1997: Techniques de métallurgie au Nord Togo. (translation of ‘Eisentechniken in Nord-Togo’ (1993), (= Collection Patrimoines, 6), Lomé: Université du Bénin.
  • 1996: Die materielle Kultur der Konkomba, Kabyè und Lamba in Nord-Togo. Ein regionaler Kulturvergleich. (doctoral thesis, Frankfurt/M. 1994), (= Westafrikanische Studien, 14), Cologne: Köppe.
  • 1993: Eisentechniken in Nord-Togo. (= Kulturanthropologische Studien, 21), Münster: Lit.
  • 1991: Die materielle Kultur der Bassar. (= Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M., 24), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner

Editorship

  • 2022, with Anja Klöckner und Dirk Wicke: Values and Revaluations: The Transformation and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow.
  • 2021, with Oliver Lueb, Karoline Noack und Katja Müller: Digitalisierung ethnologischer Sammlungen. Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • 2019 with Fr. Neumann: Das neue Zuhause. Haushalt und Alltag nach der Migration. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.
  • 2017: (with Helmut Groschwitz, Paola Ivanov und Thomas Laely): Ethnologie und Weltkulturenmuseum Positionen für eine offene Weltsicht. Berlin: Vergangenheitsverlag.
  • 2015 (with Mario Schmidt und Emanuel Seitz): Marcel Mauss - Schriften zum Geld. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
  • 2015 (with Philipp Stockhammer): Lost in Things. Fragen an die Welt des Materiellen. Münster: Waxmann.
  • 2014 (with S. Samida und M.K.H. Eggert) Handbuch Materielle Kultur. Bedeutungen, Konzepte, Disziplinen. Stuttgart: Metzler

References
  1. Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn (short-CV), Clio-online, accessed: 14 April 2023.
  2. Vita of Prod. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn, de:Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, of the University of Cologne; accessed: 14 April 2023.
  3. Excellence Cluster, TOPOI, The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hahn, accessed: 14 April 2023.
  4. Hans Peter Hahn German Research Foundation|DFG]] College Research Group 2615 - FU-Berlin (April–September 2019).
  5. Anke Sauter: New doctoral college on the role of ethnological museums”. de:Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw), 13 May 2022.
  6. Excellence Cluster, TOPOI, The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hahn, accessed: 14 April 2023.
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