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Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Phenomenological Anthropology, Phenomenology, Psychiatric Anthropology, Anthropology of Performance, Semiotics, Morocco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am a cultural anthropologist working at the intersection of anthropology, philosophy and psychology. My main theoretical interest is the translation and application of concepts from philosophical phenomenology (in particular Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Waldenfels) to empirical research problems in anthropology. I am currently working on the development of a phenomenological theory of performativity and performance in anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously my work concentrated on exploring the fertility of the phenomenological notion of the Other for anthropology. Results of this effort have appeared in form of the edited volume Anthropology and Alterity \u2013 Responding to the Other<\/em>, published by Routledge (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have conducted ethnographic research on trance- and possession rituals in Morocco and am presently preparing a new ethnographic project on culture and practices of psychiatry in Germany and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the undergraduate level, I am teaching a wide variety of courses, e.g. Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 1001), Psychological Anthropology (ANTH 2070), Culture and Symbols (ANTH 2500), Art, Culture and Society (ANTH\/SOCI 3570).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For graduate students I am offering courses corresponding to my research interests: Anthropology of Performance (ANTH 5505) and Phenomenology for Anthropologists and Sociologists (ANTH 5501).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am available for supervision in the areas of phenomenological anthropology, applied phenomenology, performance and performativity, and semiotics. I am particularly interested in working with students whose projects apply these perspectives to psychiatry and medicine, court trials and legal practices, performative arts, sensory and bodily practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard (ed.) 2017. Anthropology and Alterity. Responding to the Other<\/em>. New York\/London Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard\/Koepping, Klaus-Peter\/Rudolph Michael (eds) 2006. Ritual and Identity. Performative Practices as Effective Transformations of Social Reality<\/em>. Berlin: LIT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles and Book Chapters (Selection):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forthcoming: Leistle, Bernhard \u201cPhenomenological Arguments and Concepts for Anthropology\u201d. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2020. \u201cEinleitung\u201d and \u201cEthnologie as Xenologie. Bernhard Waldenfels und die Wissenschaft vom kulturell Fremden\u201d. In: Bernhard Leistle (ed.) Themenschwerpunkt: Fremdheit \u2013 Ordnung- Antwort. Bernhard Waldenfels und die empirischen Wissenschaften. Deutsche Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Philosophie<\/em> 68\/1, 72 \u2013 78, 101 \u2013 120 (Leistle, Bernhard 2020. \u201cIntroduction\u201d and \u201cEthnology as Xenology. Bernhard Waldenfels and the Science of the Culturally Alien\u201d. In: Bernhard Leistle (ed.) Thematic Focus: Alienness \u2013 Order \u2013 Response. Bernhard Waldenfeld and the Empirical Sciences. German Journal of Philosophy<\/em> 68\/1, 72 \u2013 78, 101 \u2013 120).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2020. \u201cEthnography as Bewitchment: A Literary Study of Jeanne Favret-Saada\u2019s Deadly Words<\/em>\u201d. In: Julie Laplante, Ari Gandsman , and Willow Scobie (eds.) 2020. Search After Methods. Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwor<\/em>k. New York\/Oxford: Berghahn, 211 – 230.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2018. \u201c\u201cPolyfunctionality\u201d, \u201cStructural Dominant\u201d, and \u201cPoetic Function\u201d in Merleau-Ponty\u2019s Phenomenology of Perception<\/em>\u201d. Acta Structuralica<\/em>, Special Issue 2, 69 \u2013 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2017. \u201cIntroduction\u201d. In: Bernhard Leistle (ed.) Anthropology and Alterity. Responding to the Other. New York\/London: Routledge, 1 \u2013 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2017. \u201cThe Emergence of the Radical Other in Phenomenology\u201d. In: Bernhard Leistle (ed.) Anthropology and Alterity, Responding to the Other<\/em>. New York\/London: Routledge, 45 \u2013 71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2017. \u201cThe Order of the World\u201d: A Responsive Phenomenology of Schreber\u2019s Memoirs\u201d. In: Bernhard Leistle (ed.) Anthropology and Alterity, Responding to the Other<\/em>. New York\/London: Routledge, 254 – 281.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2016. \u201cResponsivity and (some) other approaches to alterity”. Anthropological Theory<\/em> Vol. 16(1), 48\u201374.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2015. \u201cOtherness as a Paradigm in Anthropology\u201d. Semiotica<\/em> 204, 291 \u2013 313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2014.\u201cFrom the Alien to the Other \u2013 Steps toward a Phenomenology of Spirit Possession\u201d. In: Anthropology of Consciousness<\/em> 25\/1, 53 – 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2011. \u201cDifficult Heritage. Time and the Other in Moroccan Rituals of Possession\u201d. In: Simon, Udo et al. Reflexivity, Media, and Visuality. Ritual Dynamics and the Science of <\/em>Ritual, Vol. IV<\/em>. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 309 \u2013 338.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2006a. \u201cRitual as Sensory Communication \u2013 A Theoretical and Analytical Perspective\u201d. In: Klaus-Peter K\u00f6pping, Bernhard Leistle, and Michael Rudolph (eds.) 2006. Ritual and Identity<\/em>. Performative Practices as Effective Transformations of Social Reality<\/em>. Berlin: LIT, 33 \u2013 74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leistle, Bernhard 2006b.\u201cDer Geruch des Djinn \u2013 Ph\u00e4nomenologische \u00dcberlegungen zur kulturellen Bedeutungsdimension sinnlicher Erfahrung in Marokko\u201d (The Odour of the Djinn. Phenomenological Reflections on the Representative Dimension of Sensory Experience in Moroccan Culture). In: Curare, Journal of Medical Anthropology and Transcultural Psychiatry<\/em>, 2006\/3, 173 \u2013 194.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31426,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Bernhard","cu_people_last_name":"Leistle","cu_people_initials":"BL","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[42],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-463","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-anthropology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Chair","cu_people_degree":"PhD (Heidelberg)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"bernhard.leistle@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"(613) 410-1729","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32528,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/463\/revisions\/32528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}