Archive assistant
Alisa Napitupulu studied ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt from 2018 to 2022. In her bachelor's thesis, she examined the research experiences of anthropologists who had conducted research at different times (1950s, 2000s, 2010s) among a sub-tribe of the Kond in the Indian state of Odisha. The focus was on examining how these researchers perceived and coped with culture shock in their own time. In her subsequent master's degree in social and cultural anthropology (Goethe University Frankfurt), she examined the International Year of Millets 2023 in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, and how millet is being marketed as a superfood in India as part of this initiative. After working as a student assistant in the Frobenius Institute's pre- and post-mortem archive, she has been employed as an archive assistant since September 2025.
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