The ethnologist and religious scholar Karl-Heinz Kohl has been awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose 2024. The award goes to the scientist because his work “impresses with its clarity of presentation and is thus able to sharpen our historical judgment,” said the German Academy for Language and Poetry in its press release.
Karl-Heinz Kohl is a member of the Normative Orders Research Center and was Professor of Anthropology at Goethe University and Director of the Frobenius Institute for Cultural Anthropological Research until his retirement. His work focuses on the relationship between Europeans and indigenous cultures. Among other things, the ethnologist conducted field research in eastern Indonesia and analyzed Karl Marx and Sigmund Freut’s concept of the fetish from the perspective of indigenous cultures. In his latest book, published this year, “Nine Tribes. The Heritage of the Indigenous and the Roots of Modernity”, Karl-Heinz Kohl sheds light on the interactions and mediations between indigenous cultures and the West. His works always thrive on the mediation between reflection and contemplation.
The Sigmund Freud Prize for academic prose is awarded annually by the German Academy for Language and Poetry. It is endowed with 20,000 euros and will be awarded this year together with the Gorg Büchner Prize on November 2, 2024 in Darmstadt.
Further information on the Sigmund Freud Prize: Here…
