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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. Non-European societies have long been a focus of research at the Frankfurt Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology; today ...
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”.
6 dni temu · Updated: 11-15-2024 | Reading Time: 4 minutes. Social Anthropology is an insightful field focused on the comparative study of human societies and cultures. It explores social patterns, cultural norms, and the diverse ways in which people live around the world.
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 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 confining umbrella of "History".
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).
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.
