Contact
Email:
jandavidhauck@protonmail.com
As a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist, Jan David Hauck is interested in the ways in which children acquire, transform, and develop awareness of language, culture, and morality through everyday interactions with caregivers and peers, especially in contexts of sociocultural and environmental change. He holds an MA in Sociocultural Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently British Academy Newton Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2009 he has conducted fieldwork in the indigenous Aché communities in eastern Paraguay, a former hunter–gatherer collective recently settled on reservations after deforestation, persecutions, and disease. His current research compares interactions on hunting treks in a forest reserve with those in a village in order to analyze how environmental transformations impact children’s moral development.
RCC Project: Moral Socialization and Environmental Change
Selected Publications:
- with Teruko Vida Mitsuhara. “Sorry Not Sorry: Political Apology in the Age of Trump.” In Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language, edited by Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann, p. 215–232. London: Bloomsbury.
- “The Origin of Language among the Aché.” Language & Communication 63: 76–88, 2018.
- “Language in the Amerindian Imagination.” Language & Communication 63, special issue edited with Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, 2018.
- Language Under Construction: Bilingualism in Paraguay and Some Unsettled Thoughts About Language. Berlin: Weissensee Verlag, 2009.
- edited with Ligia Chiappini. Mercosul/Mercosur: Dynamik der Grenzen und kulturelle Integration. Mettingen: Brasilienkunde Verlag, 2007.