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Yucatec Maya: Variation in Space and Time

Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Prof. Dr. (General and Germanistic Linguistics: Syntax)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 12/2022

Linguistic variation is crucial for our understanding of the dynamic processes that manifest themselves in language use. The development of varieties along different dimensions such as time, geographical or social space reflects different communicati ...

West African Wild Silks Techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s Heritage of Knowledge

Bauer, Kathrin, (Faculty Management)

Duration of project: 02/2020 - 07/2022

For centuries, indigenous wild silks have been traded across West Africa and used in Marka-Dafing’s textile production in the Mouhoun regions of Western Burkina Faso. Over the past twenty years, the precious materials that are used by women for weavi ...

Urban Everyday Life of People with Experience of Psychosis: A Collaborative-Ethnographic Project with Anthropology and Psychiatry

Niewöhner, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (Urban Anthropolgy and Human-Environment Relations)

Duration of project: 10/2020 - 09/2023

The project investigates the everyday life of people with psychosis experience in rapidly changing urban spaces. Using a qualitative and quantitative mix of methods with a focus on ethnographic approaches, everyday experiences, socio-spatial changes ...

The emergence of the environmental state under authoritarianism (China, Vietnam and beyond)

Eaton, Sarah, Prof. Dr. (Transregional Studies of China)

Duration of project: 04/2020 - 07/2023

This research project will enquire into new forms of the environmental state in China, Vietnam and beyond, and test the resulting governance models on their ability to solve the dual crisis of social and environmental protections in ecologically sens ...

RG 2265/1: Mobilising Law Through/As Collectivation? Anti-Discrimination and Equality Law As Institionalized and Political Praxis (SP E)

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 06/2021

“Enabling dis/ability”, “diversify sexualities”, “normalize ethnic diversity” – under these headings, this subproject uses three ethnographic case studies – from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology – to study the implementation and mobiliz ...

RG 2265/1: Coordination Fund: Research Group Law – Gender – Collectivity: Processes of Standardization, Categorization and Generating Solidarity (SP 0)

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 08/2021

RG 1120: Sexual Modernism and Madness. The Figure of the (Meaningful) Madwoman in Berlin Urban Bohème 1890-1933

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of project: 02/2009 - 12/2013

The project researches the connection between the ‘Discovery of Sexuality’ as a scholarly and social field and a historically specific psychopathologization of femininity. In hegemonic discourses on modernism, femininity is allegorized and sexualized ...

PP 2172: Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Heritage and Museum Contexts

Macdonald, Sharon, Prof. Dr. (Social Anthropology)

Duration of project: 12/2019 - 11/2022

The DFG-funded project “Curating Digital Images” is located within the frame of the DFG priority programme “Das digitale Bild” / “The Digital Image” and focusses on ethnographic research on practices of digital curation related to the field of museum ...

Potentials of cooperation with African Initiated Churches for sustainable development

Gräb, Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. (Applied Theology Specializing in Cybernetics and Poimenics)

Duration of project: 02/2017 - 02/2020

Politics of Recognition: Post-1990 Cinematic Remembrance of the Holocaust and Porajmos in Romania and the Republic of Moldova in Comparative Perspective

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of project: 04/2014 - 09/2021

This research project focuses on film production after 1989/90 that deals with the persecution and extermination of Jews (Holocaust) and Roma (Porajmos) in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. In both countries, memories of the deportation and murder ...