Dr. des. Yanti Hölzchen

 

Yanti Hölzchen studied anthropology and Japanese studies in Tübingen and Kyoto. From 2013 to 2017, she was a PhD student at the Collaborative Research Center 1070 "Resource Cultures" (Tübingen). She defended her dissertation "Kyrgyzstan’s New Mosques: Religious Knowledge ilim as a Resource in Northeast Kyrgyzstan" in October 2018 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since then, she has expanded her regional focus to Ethiopia, where she studies the interplay of burial practices, religious media, and pilgrimage across religions in the southern region of Kaffa, and further tracks activities of internationally active Islamic organizations along the axis between Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Since 2017, Hölzchen has been a research associate at the Frobenius Institute and coordinates the institute’s public relations. She is an associate member and lecturer at the Department of social and cultural anthropology at Goethe University, and member of the steering committee at the Frankfurt Humanities Research Center (FZHG) and member of the FZHG’s ProPostDoc committee.

Research interests
Thematic: anthropology of religion, anthropology of Islam, anthropology of Christianity, anthropology of knowledge, Infrastructure, religion and materiality, pilgrimage
Regional: Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia, Japan, Southeast Asia

 

Publications

Herausgeberschaft

2010 (Hrsg., Niels Weidtmann, Yanti Hölzchen, Bilal Hawa) The Capability Approach on Social Order. Proceedings of Unseld Lecture. Berlin: LIT

Beiträge in Zeitschriften

2013 „Brautraub in Kirgistan.Tradition oder Menschenrechtsverletzung?“, Faktor 14 Magazin 8:16–21

2009 „Minderheiten in Japan. Das Beispiel Nikkeijin“, Die Maske. Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie 4:81-83

Beiträge in Sammelbänden

2017 "Religious education and cultural change – the case of madrasas in Northern Kyrgyzstan", in: Hardenberg, Roland (Hrsg.), Approaching Ritual Economy: Socio-Cosmic Fields in Globalized Contexts, 105-134. Tübingen: Universität Tübingen (SFB 1070 publication series)

2011 (Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, Yanti Hölzchen) "Frieden mit oder ohne Menschenrechte?", in: Steinberg, Swen; Trepsdorf, Daniel K.W.; Wielepp; Christoph (Hrsg.), Nach dem Umbruch. Transformationen in europäischer und globaler Perspektive, 179-192. Berlin: WVB

Qualifikationsschriften

2018 Neue Moscheen braucht das Land: Religiöses Wissen ilim als Ressource in Nordost-Kirgistan. Frankfurt am Main: Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie

2013 Konkurrenz – Spiel – Kooperation. Schulische Wettbewerbe im kirgisischen Kontext. Tübingen: Wissenschaftliche Arbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Magister Artium

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