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'''Chris Hann''' (born 4 August 1953) is a British [[social anthropologist]] who has done field research in socialist and post-socialist [[Eastern Europe]] (especially in [[Hungary]] and [[Poland]]) and the Turkic-speaking world ([[Black Sea]] coast and [[Xinjiang]], [[Northwest China|N-W China]]). His main theoretical interests lie in [[economic anthropology]], [[Anthropology of religion|religion]] (especially [[Eastern Christianity]]), and long-term history (the [[Eurasia]]n landmass). After holding university posts in [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] and [[University of Kent|Canterbury]], UK, Hann has worked since 1999 in Germany as one of the founding Directors of the [[Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology]] in Halle/Saale. Hann has made significant contributions to the subfield of [[economic anthropology]].<ref>https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/KaneffExplorations_intro.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>

Hann was born in [[Cardiff]], the first child of parents (of mixed Irish, English and Welsh ancestry) themselves born and brought up in the Welsh capital. In the same year the family moved to the new town of [[Cwmbrân]], in Monmouthshire. Hann was brought up in a monolingual English-speaking environment immediately south of the “[[Border Country (novel)|Border Country]]” of [[Raymond Williams]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1119986 | title=Video & Audio: Chris Hann - Metadata }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Border Country|last=Williams|first=Raymond|publisher=Carmarthen|year=2006 |orig-year=1960|location=Parthian Library of Wales}}</ref>