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"BAXXE ፤ HOME" on exhibition at the Bautzen Museum

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Dr. Karl-Heinz Pampus (20. Februar 1936 – 27. Mai 2020)

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Prof. Dr. Georg Pfeffer (17. Januar 1943 – 20. Mai 2020)

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Film "The Final Passage" online

Call for Applications: Masterclass with Prof. Dr. Nurit Bird-David

Short film about the Frobenius Institute

Film "Das Frobenius-Institut stellt sich vor"

Rock art copy on display in Zurich

Exhibition award "Ausgezeichnet Ausgestellt"

Maike Melles: Complex resources, resource complexes

Photo exhibition "Soltan Meydan"

Birgit Müller: Lucky to be an orphan seed?

Volker Gottowik: Transgressive rituelle Praktiken

Medinat Abdulazeez: The #MeToo movement in Northern Nigeria

Season's greetings

Tilman Musch: "Der Nashornspur folgen"

Tom Bratrud: "Fire on the Island"

Ismael Moya: "What have you become?"

Call for Abstracts: Summer Symposium 2020

Ernst Halbmayer: Vom Jaguar zur Allmutter

Edward Stevenson: Counting the costs of large dams for communities dependent on flood recession agriculture

Maryam Dezhamkhooy: Contesting figures of the modern woman

Our yearbook 2018/19

Exhibition "BAXXE ፤ HOME" in Addis Ababa

Daniel Münster: Towards an anthropology of soil

Michael Jeismann: Die Freiheit der Liebe

Natalie Lang receives Research Award 2019

CfP: Ethnology, Prehistory and Politics from the Late 19th Century to the Interwar Period

Call for Proposals: Winter School on Performing Religion

Valentina Peveri: Illegible gardens

Matteo Benussi: Halal infrastructure in Muslim Russia

Colloquium winterterm 2019/20

Reception on occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair

Ad.E. Memorial Lecture online

Celebrated loans at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

Anthropology library renamed

Lecture: "Die Kunst des Forschens im 21. Jahrhundert – das Frobenius-Institut stellt sich vor"

Ad.E. Memorial Lecture 2019

Masterclass with Prof. Dr. Sondra Hausner

Events in June 2019

Ad.E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2019

Obituary for Negasso Gidada

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Rock art on exhibition at Centre Pompidou

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CfP: Masterclass with Sondra Hausner

Workshop "Contested millets in in Africa and Asia: past and present"

Exhibition: "Frobenius - The Art of Science"

Job opening: PhD position in Archaeology

Call for Papers Summer Symposium 2019

Workshop: "Religious Speakers - Authority and Influence of Word and People"

Almut Schneider: Networks of social complexity: thinking with pigs in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

Latest issue of Paideuma out now

Winter Newsletter

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Music collection presented to the African Music Archives (AMA) at Mainz University

Leo Frobenius' work "Das unbekannte Afrika" online!

Susanne Epple: Negotiating Law in Ethiopia - chances and challenges of legal pluralism

Advisory Board Meeting in November

Lecture series on ongoing projects

Book Fair Reception 2018

Workshop "Millets and Maize. Dynamics around Ethiopia’s competing grains"

20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in Mekelle, Ethiopia

Symposium presentations online!

Magloire Somé at the Frobenius Institute

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"Views - landscapes - engraved rocks": photo exhibition in Valcamonica, Italy

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Joel Robbins on YouTube

Deutsch-Iranischer Workshop, 25.-29. Juni 2018

Joel Robbins zu Gast im Juni

Kulturdezernentin Ina Hartwig zu Besuch

"Storibuk Pairundu" - tales from Papua New Guinea

Ad.E.Jensen Memorial Lecture 2018

Workshop "Contested millets in Africa and India" (May 18th/19th 2018)

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Neue Universitäts-Kooperation

Sommersymposium 2018

Newsletter Frühjahr/Sommer 2018

CfP: Masterclass mit Joel Robbins "Anthropology of Values"

Call for Abstracts zum Sommersymposium

Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg

Frohe Weihnachten

Call for Papers

Newsletter des Frobenius-Instituts

Deutsch-französisches Projekt verlängert

Neues Projekt "The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Resources: Iranian and German Perspectives"

Preisgekrönte Publikation

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Erfolgsausstellung "Frobenius, el mundo del arte rupestre"

Neue internationale Kooperationen

Prof. Dr. Magueye Kassé zu Gast am Frobenius-Institut

Kolloquium des Frobenius-Instituts im WS 2017/18

Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V.

Prof. Dr. Kumar Nayak zu Gast am Frobenius-Institut

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Preis für die beste ethnologische Dissertation 2017 vergeben

Ausstellung: Frobenius, el mundo del arte rupestre

Ausstellung "Art Rupestre Africain"

Cooperation with Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria

Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg ist neuer Direktor des Frobenius-Instituts

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Konferenz am Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Konferenz an der Goethe-Universität

Frobenius-Vortrag 2017

A.E. Jensen-Gedächtnisvorlesungsreihe 2017

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