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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”.
Anthropology is devoted to the study of societies worldwide, with a central focus on the human being (anthropos) in her/his cultural environment. 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 ...
Social Anthropology (German: Ethnologie) is the science of cultural identities and differences. It aims to observe, analyse and interpret domains of social action that reflect such cultural characteristics in a theoretically grounded and methodically consistent manner.
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology. Drawing on the most recent work on the his...
3 lip 2021 · In this chapter, the beginnings of sociology in Germany up until 1945 are presented. Similar to France, in Germany the genesis of sociology is closely linked to the emergence of bourgeois society, industrialization, and the perception of a social and cultural crisis....
In Winter Semester 2022/23 the Master's Programme (formerly known in German under the name "Ethnologie") started in English as "Social and Cultural Anthropology" with NEW admission requirements. NEW Admission Requirements from Winter 2024/25 onwards:
Duration: 4 semesters. Credits: 120 ECTS. mid June - 15 July (Non-EU) / 15 Sept. (EU) A detailed study of local life in a particular society or delineated social environments provides the methodological entrance to an in-depth understanding.
