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Curriculum Vitae Anna Meiser

Department of Social Anthropology

 

Contact/ Vita: e-mail: annameiser"at"hotmail.com

Research Interests

Religious anthropology, processes of indigenization, identity formation, remembering cultures, indigenous churches, Teología India

Regional Interests

South America, (Post-)Socialist Eurasia

Academic Career

since Oct 2008 Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, LMU Munich.

2008 Fieldwork in Ecuador und Peru (6 months)

2008 - 2009 Associate member of the Cusanuswerk

since Nov 2007 Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation

since Oct 2007 Mentee of the Mentoring Programme at the LMU

since Oct 2007 PhD Student of Social Anthropology (Major) and Catholic Theology (Minor) at the LMU.
(PhD Project: “Invention or Tradition? – Indigenisierte Formen des Christentums im Amazonasgebiet“ [“Invention or Tradition? – Indigenized Forms of Christianity in the Amazon”]).

2007 Master of Arts – Thesis: “Iíkmak, das ,Schwein Gottes’ – Zum Selbstverständnis der Shuar heute und die Einwirkung der christlichen Mission“ [“Iíkmak, the ‘Pig of God’ – To the Self-Concept of the Shuar today and the Impact of the Christian Mission”].

2005/2006 Fieldwork among the Shuar in Ecuador (3 months)

2005 Semester abroad at the Humboldt State University Arcata, CA,USA

2004 Semester abroad at the Jagiellonian University and at the Pontifical Academy of Theology, Cracow, Poland

2001 – 2007 Studies in Social Anthropology (Major), Catholic Theology (Minor) and Political Science (Minor) at the LMU

 

Publications

Articles:

„Medienlandschaft im Umbruch: Das Beispiel Polen”, in: Gesellschaft gestalten – Glauben entfalten. Christen in Mittel- und Osteuropa. 11. Internationaler Kongress Renovabis 2007, Aachen, 2008, S. 194-198.

„Der Gott des Himmels und des Waldes“, in: Lateinamerika Anders, Nr. 2/2009, S. 23-24.

„Plurale Konstruktionen von Indigenität – Indigenisiertes Christentum im Amazonasgebiet und seine Formen der Aneignung“ (forthcoming).

„’Jesus is the same Arútam’– Processes of appropriation in the ‘Catholic autochthonous church of the Shuar’  (Ecuador, Morona Santiago)” (forthcoming).

2009 [in preparation]: “Ritual, Sacrifice and Community – The Uwí-Feast in the ‘autochthonous church of the Shuar’” [in English].

2008: “Baranek Boży” w Amazonii Indiańskiej, in: Studia Misjologiczne 1/2008, p. 117-128 [Annual of Association of Polish Missiologists].

 

Miscellaneous:

2008:”Abenteur am Amazonas”, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung – Uni&Job, 18 Oktober 2008, p. 4-5.

2008:”Medienlandschaft im Umbruch: Das Beispiel Polen”, in: Gesellschaft gestalten – Glauben entfalten. Christen in Mittel- und Osteuropa. 11. Internationaler Kongress Renovabis 2007, Aachen, 2008, p. 194-198.