Wulf Schiefenhoevel

    Wulf Schiefenhoevel is a Professor for Medical Psychology and Ethnomedicine at the Ludwig-Maximillans University (Munich), and a group leader at the Max Plank Institute for Behavioral Physiology (Andechs). He undertook his field studies in New Guinea, Indonesia and Melanesia participating in several projects in the area of ethnomedical, anthropological, and human ethological research. In particular, he was a field director of interdisciplinary project Man, Culture and Environment in the Central Highlands of Irian Jaya, West New Guinea. The results of his research contributed to over two hundred publications. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel was a lector of the 1st Siberian Indian Summer School on Human Ethology (Novosibirsk). The titles of his talks were Human birth: Evolutionary and crosscultural considerations, Human aggression: Examples from New Guinea and general reflections, and Human facial expression: How does biology shape semantics.

On the upcoming school he will give the lectures on Human Birth: Evolutionary, Ethnomedical and Crosscultural Perspectives, Aggression and Aggression Control in Highland New Guinea and Beyond, and Signals in the Face: On the Human Ethology of Nonverbal Communication

http://erl.ornithol.mpg.de/~schiefen