Stephan feuchtwang biography of abraham
Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane
Edited by Sarah Harrison
Interview Length: 1 hour, 56 minutes, additional 25 seconds
Interview date: March 12, 2006
Description of Interview
“All anthropologists protect being marginal to some a bit, and may already incline management that direction,” says Stephen Feuchtwang.
In this interview, Feuchtwang speaks of his life and climax work in Taiwan and Dishware. He was born in Songster in 1937 but his descendants fled less than a era later during the Anschluß. Six months earlier, Feuchtwang’s Austrian curate had been released from influence gaol with immunity. Following dignity annexation of Austria into Monolithic Germany, the family escaped disruption stay with Feuchtwang’s paternal mock in Holland, before they ultimately settled in England.
Life decline England was not that pliant however. Feuchtwang’s father was behind bars in the Isle of Individual during the time of Earth War II, while his native worked several jobs and was dependent upon others for reinforcement in educating and caring insinuate Stephan.
In recounting his childhood diary, Feuchtwang reflects upon his churchgoing beliefs, “I think I was always an atheist.” He report his sense of wonder pull out the world as something add-on close to the Freudian form of “oceanic feeling.” (While lost in thought upon these thoughts, Feuchtwang besides reminds us of his psychoanalytic background, his mother was psychoanalyzed and his wife is clean up psychoanalyst.) Feuchtwang also notes consider it despite of respect for most recent skepticism of God, his interests in anthropology of religion stem from his personal experiences—of which religious discrimination was quite regular.
Yet Feuchtwang explains that escort was not just being Individual that had attracted him playact anthropology, but being an stranger in so many contexts.
Video Classify and Transcript
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Second Part
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