birth_place name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
mannheim , germany hans peter duerr 06 june 1943 '' dreamtime '' hans peter duerr
 hans peter duerr anthropologist
hans peter duerr

`` this article is for the german anthropologist .
for the german physicist see hans-peter dürr . ''
hans peter duerr -lrb- born 6 june 1943 -rrb- is a german anthropologist and author of ten books on anthropology .
duerr studied at both the university of vienna and the university of heidelberg , eventually gaining his doctorate in 1971 with a dissertation on consciousness theory in philosophy .
from 1975 through to 1980 he worked as a lecturer and visiting professor of ethnology and cultural history at the university of zurich , university of kassel and university of bern , before settling down permanently at kassel .
from 1992 to 1999 he taught as a professor of anthropology and cultural history at the university of bremen , before moving back to heidelberg .
he has published multiple books in german , one of which has been translated as `` dreamtime : concerning the boundary between wilderness and civilization '' .
from 1988 through to 2002 he published a five volume magnum opus entitled `` der mythos vom zivilisationsprozeß '' .
