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The chair for Social Anthropology (Ruhr-University-Bochum) invites you to discover the lives, ideas and research activities of the anthropologists who participated in the video project on “The History of Federal German Anthropology”.
In research and teaching, the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University provides contemporary and historical perspectives on social phenomena as processes and expressions of varied dynamics.
In the 2000s, after the founding of the Max Planck Institute for Anthropological Research in Halle in 1999, with a British social anthropologist (Chris Hann) and a “Bielefelder” (Günther Schlee) as founding directors, it became widely accepted in German anthropology (Bierschenk et al., 2016).
All important info for international students in Germany (2024/2025) Updated: 11-16-2024 | Reading Time: 3 minutes. The broad category of Anthropology allows you to see in one place all Germany has to offer in terms of studying human history from a comparative, scientific, and social perspective outside of the simultaneously broader and more ...
1 dzień temu · Anthropology covers a broad range, from the evolution of humans to contemporary cultural practices, including archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Ethnology specifically focuses on comparing and analyzing cultural practices, customs, and beliefs across different societies.
The wide range of courses is regularly enriched by e-learning modules (e.g. 'Comparative Cultural Studies' or 'Anthropology of Social Organisation'). In addition, our staff teach contemporary anthropological theories, research methodologies and history of science at an advanced level.
Social and Cultural Anthropology aims at understanding social and cultural dynamics of societies worldwide. While Anthropology originated historically as the discipline that researched "other cultures" (meaning "non-western cultures") anthropologists today work also within their own societies.
