Blog
22 Dec 2021 | Annina Christine Gyger
When my studies became 3D: Learning through objects as a museum intern
After four years of studying social and cultural anthropology at LMU Munich, my internship with Dr. Hilke Thode-Arora, curator of the...
25 Apr 2022 | Ruben Darío Chambi
Anfänge im neuen Semester / Getting started in the new semester
[In German and English] Ruben Darío Chambi freut sich auf den Austausch mit Studierenden und Forschenden am Institut für Ethnologie...
10 Jan 2022 | H. Glenn Penny & Philipp Schorch
Zurückgeben ist nicht die einzige Lösung: Wie Objekte in ethnologischen Museen erweckt werden
Die Debatte über die Ausstellung von kolonialer Raubkunst stellt den Sinn ethnologischer Museen in Frage. Dabei gerät eine Sache...
05 Sep 2021 | Mahina Choy-Ellis
Native Books Hawaiʻi: Meet our authors — Philipp Schorch and Noelle Kahanu
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous...
22 Nov 2021 | Ruben Darío Chambi
El Alto: Indigeneity in an Aymara city
I am from El Alto, one of the youngest cities in Bolivia, not only because of its recent creation (1985), but also because at least...
01 Oct 2021 | Sara Riordan
Island cooking: Portraits of Sāmoa. Told through food
What does Sāmoa taste like? Taro? Palusami? Chop Suey? I’m sure if you were to ask 100 different Sāmoans, you’d get 100 different...