Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Susanne Kuehling (PhD)

Address:

Institut fuer Ethnologie

Sandgasse 7

Universitaet Heidelberg

D-69117 Heidelberg

Germany

Phone: + 49 6221 54 3440

Fax : + 49 6221 54 3556

Born: Osnabrueck (Germany) 1963

Education:

1983 - 1989 Undergraduate studies at Goettingen University. Main subject: Social Anthropology, secondary subjects: European Anthropology, Sociology of Development

1994 - 1998 Post-graduate studies at the Australian National University under supervision of Michael Wallis Young and Alan Rumsey. Advisors: Dr. Margaret Jolly, Dr. Christopher Gregory, Dr. Don Gardner. Scholarships of the A.N.U. and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

1999 Graduation at the A.N.U., title of PhD thesis: The name of the gift. Ethics of exchange on Dobu Island.

2000 Scientific assistant at the University of Heidelberg, Institut fuer Ethnologie

Fieldwork: 1986 Spring, Gozo Island (Malta)

1990 Survey trip through Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea

July 1992 - January 1994 Dobu Island (Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea)

1997 July - September Dobu Island

Subject Interests

Theoretical/thematic: Gift exchange, gender issues, egalitarian systems, notion of space/place, ethics, concept of the person

Regional Interests (areas): Oceania (Papua New Guinea/Dobu Island)Mediterranean (Malta/Gozo)

Current research Projects:

1. Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture, Dobu: a re-evaluation

2. Research project on space/place

Other Fields of Activity:

Co-organisator of the Oceania-AG of the Heidelberg Institut fuer Ethnologie

Publications:

1989 "Textile Techniken auf Gozo (Malta). Ergebnisse einer Feldforschung". In Maltesische Studien. Herausgegeben von Rolf Husmann. Arbeiten der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen Bd. 24, S. 49-70. Göttingen: Edition

1989 "Betelkauen in Melanesien". Magisterarbeit, Göttingen: Georg-August-Universität.

1996 "Gwasa: eine soziale Krankheit". Invoemagazin 11:29-30.

1996 "Starke Frauen ? starke Männer. Beobachtungen zur Geschlechterbeziehung auf der Insel Dobu, Papua Neuguinea". In Frauen. Sonderheft des Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum Hannover, Abteilung Völkerkunde. S. 21-23. Hannover: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover.

1996 "Review for Canberra Anthropology: Lepowsky, Maria: Fruit of the motherland. Gender in an egalitarian society. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994." In Canberra Anthropology 19 (2):116-18.

1998 "Review for The Journal of the Polynesian Society: Beran, Harry: Mutuaga. A Nineteenth-Century New Guinea Master Carver. Wollongong: University of Wollongong Press, 1996". In The Journal of the Polynesian Society 107 (2):195-6.

1998 "The Name of the Gift. Ethics of exchange on Dobu Island". Dissertation, Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.