Institute for Ethnology

Teaching

Two of the four chairs in social and cultural anthropology –  Prof. Hornbacher and Prof. Sprenger – are lodged at the institute, as well as the programme coordinators for the BA and MA, the examination office, the office for internships and for the Erasmus exchange programme and the student representatives. Most of the teaching, as well as departmental seminars and film showings take place at the institute. 

In the current summer-semester, the Department has  520 students, 15 full-time academic staff, and offers 33 different lecture and seminar courses

Research

Our shared research interests, which are foci of our teaching, as well, are

• Intercultural ethics, globalization and the anthropology of development
• Human-environment relations and cultural ecology
• Ritual and performativity
• Theories of exchange, kinship and social organization
• Medical anthropology and the anthropology of ageing
• Media, theatre and visual anthropology

Our research concentrates on the ethnographic regions of Southeast Asia, the Pacific and South Asia.