Research Focus

Fachgruppe

Law, Economics and Social Sciences

Schwerpunkte

Aesthetics, material culture, consumption and art and their significance for processes of social articulation, knowledge production and for the constitution of trans / locality; Ethnology of the body and the senses; Islam and gender in their global embedding; Global interconnectivity and mobility; Cultural interactions and the resulting processes of change in the past and present; "(Post) Modern" in Africa; Political forms of organization; Religious and economic ethnology; Museums, Curation and Heritage Provenance Research of Ethnological Collections; Indian Ocean and East African coastal cities, Central, Northeast and East Africa; Practical theory, phenomenology, material turn; 19th to 21st century