Manfred Kremser (30 July 1950 – 3 March 2013) was an
Austria
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n ethnologist and researcher of the human consciousness.
Manfred Kremser 30.7.1950 – 3.3.2013
univie.ac.at
Life
Kremser was born in Wiener Neustadt
Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...
. He taught at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
. Until his death he was President of the Austrian Association for parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near ...
. He has been president of the Austrian ethnomedical society and Chairman of the Association of Intercultural Work.
Since 1972, he has done ethnographic field research with in Africa, India with Bhil people
Bhil or Bheel is an ethnic group in western India. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages. As of 2013, Bhils were the largest tribal group in India.
Bhils are listed as tribal people of the s ...
, in the Caribbean Region and in the cyberspace. He has done also field research in St.Lucia Kélé in the context of African-derived religious traditions in the Caribbean. Kremser’s research focused on African religions in Africa, Azande and Bambara people
The Bambara ( bm, ߓߡߊߣߊ߲, italics=no, ''Bamana'' or ''Banmana'') are a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa, primarily southern Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. They have been associated with the historic Bambara Emp ...
, and the African diaspora
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were e ...
. He has worked for decades with the Folk Research Centre on documenting the Kélé
''Kélé'' is an Afro-Saint Lucian religion, originated from the Djiné people of the Babonneau region. Its primary deities are Ogun, Shango and Eshu. ''Kélé'' ceremonies include the drumming of the ''tanbou manman'' (''mother drum'') and the '' ...
religion in the Fond Assau area.
He specialized on ethnological research in human consciousness, shamanic sciences, therapeutic rituals, esthetics of cures with rituals, trance technologies, binary oracle systems, symbolism of water, water rituals and cyber anthropology.
His recent projects dealt with traditional and globalized knowledge about cures in the Pannonian spa area. He was the author of more than 80 papers, and editor of the ethnomedical health guidebook: “Selbstheilungskräfte: Die Quelle zur Stärkung und Heilung im eigenen Ich”. (Self healing capacities: The origin for strength and the cure of the Self.).
He died in Wiesen, Austria
Wiesen (; hr, Bizmet, Bizma, hu, Rétfalu) is a town in the district of Mattersburg in the Austrian state of Burgenland
Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is the east ...
on March 3, 2013.
Selected publications
* „Karibische Genesis II: Spirituelle Arbeit und rituelle Inszenierung“, in Hermann Mückler, Werner Zips & Manfred Kremser (Hg.), Ethnohistorie: Empirie und Praxis (Wiener Beiträge zur Ethnologie und Anthropologie 14). Wien: WUV, 2006
* „Afroamerikanische Religionen in der Karibik“, in Bernd Hausberger & Gerhard Pfeisinger (Hg.), Die Karibik: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 1492–2000 (Edition Weltregionen 11). Wien: ProMedia, 2005
* „Das schamanische Gesamtkunstwerk“, in Verein Pacha Mama: Maresa Pirker et al. (Hg.), Gesundheit und Spiritualität (Dokumentation des Kongresses vom 23.–26. Juni 2005). Wien: pro literatur Verlag Robert Mayer-Scholz, 2005
*Ethnohistorie: Empirie und Praxis (Wiener Beiträge zur Ethnologie und Anthropologie 14). Wien: WUV, 2006
References
External links
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Manfred Kremser, University of Vienna
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Austrian anthropologists
1950 births
2013 deaths