Prof. Dr. Holger Jebens

Holger Jebens is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Research Associate at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin, habilitated at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and has been conducting stationary field research in various regions of Papua New Guinea for almost thirty years. From 2001 to 2002 he was Theodor Heuss Lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York. His duties at the Frobenius Institute include looking after the ethnographic collection and editing the journal Paideuma. He is also one of the editors of the book series Studien zur Kulturkunde.

Thematic focus: anthropology of religion, museology, history of anthropology, narratology, methodology

Regional focus: Melanesia (especially Papua New Guinea), Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand