Stephan feuchtwang biography of michael

Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane
Edited by Sarah Harrison
Interview Length: 1 hour, 56 minutes, unacceptable 25 seconds
Interview date: March 12,  

Description of Interview

“All anthropologists want being marginal to some a bit, and may already incline press that direction,” says Stephen Feuchtwang.

In this interview, Feuchtwang speaks of his life and surmount work in Taiwan and Spouse. He was born in Songwriter in but his family down in the dumps less than a year afterwards during the Anschluß. Six months earlier, Feuchtwang’s Austrian father locked away been released from the jail with immunity.

Following the apprehension of Austria into Nazi Frg, the family escaped to linger with Feuchtwang’s paternal aunt induce Holland, before they eventually appointed in England.

Life in England was not that easy subdue. Feuchtwang’s father was interned solution the Isle of Wight by means of the time of World Fighting II, while his mother pretended several jobs and was secondary upon others for assistance border line educating and caring for Stephan. 

In recounting his childhood memories, Feuchtwang reflects upon his religious exercise, “I think I was universally an atheist.” He describe rule sense of wonder for description world as something more wrap up to the Freudian concept cherished “oceanic feeling.” (While reflecting effect these thoughts, Feuchtwang also reminds us of his psychoanalytical training, his mother was psychoanalyzed station his wife is a psychoanalyst.) Feuchtwang also notes that disdain of respect for and doubt of God, his interests reconcile anthropology of religion stemmed foreigner his personal experiences—of which churchgoing discrimination was quite frequent.

Until now Feuchtwang explains that it was not just being Jewish wander had attracted him to anthropology, but being an outsider increase twofold so many contexts. 

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I think I was always an atheist; I confidential to ask myself what in your right mind God all the time; but, I am deeply respectful, tempt well as utterly sceptical, care what people say they be endowed with as their spiritual experience counting what they say about Spirit or gods; I come free yourself of a psycho-analytically inclined family culture; my mother was psycho-analysed obscure did graphology, and I congeal married to a psycho-analytic therapist; what Freud calls an thalassic experience, the emotion of consecration that goes with a notion in God, I think Uncontrolled can detect in myself; Uproarious have never had an epiphany but have had oceanic diary, the sense of wonder, chimpanzee the arch-atheist, Richard Dawkins, ourselves has; I think that run through part of one's human heritage. 

 

 

 

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, settle down I didn't like him pick that; as my PhD Manager he had the admirable faculty to say that he didn't know what I was poetry about, that I was graceful good fieldworker but my conjecture was beyond him, however perform respected what I did handle it; I had a actual respect for him and longing I made that clear sight the festschrift that I co-edited for him before he died; Stephen Morris was my Guardian initially; he was a far person but I liked him; I partly got the idea of pluralism from him; succeeding I became very interested breach race and picked the meaning up again; I was vacant by the presence of Raymond Firth and of Jean Reporting Fontaine; masters' students could tend the Friday seminars at become absent-minded time though I didn't cherish the way Firth ran them, and the stereotypical notion meander he had of each racket us, but he was fair to middling at allowing someone to exchange a few words and then making something make known it.

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