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Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Current Research Projects

Unequal new beginnings

Photo: Can Akin

Unequal new beginnings: Social class and return migration to Mexico City

Project lead: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Pauli
Project implementation: Can Akin, M.A.
Duration: 2022-2025

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Photo: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Martin Franken.

Pluralizing the Value of Things: Research Network

Project lead: Sub.-Prof. Dr.  Jonas Bens
Duration: 2023 - 2026

Building Wellbeing

Photo: Charlot Schneider

Building Wellbeing: An Ethnography of Temporary Refugee Housing in Berlin and Brandenburg

Project lead: Charlot Schneider, MA; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Pauli
Duration: 2022 - 2025

Namibia

Photo: Michael Schnegg

Different ways of knowing the weather in Namibia

Project lead: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg
Duration: 2019 - 2022

Gesundheitsamt

Photo: Maja Nielsen

Handeln im Diskurs-Mittelfeld? Gesundheitsämter in der Corona-Pandemie – eine Ethnographie der Krisenadaption

Research team: Dr. Maja Nielsen, Dr. Michael Pröpper und Lukas Krauß

the past as destiny

Photo: Laila Prager

The Past as Destiny: Heritage Discourses and Identity Formation in the Contemporary Gulf Region

Project lead: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laila Prager
Duration: 2016 - ongoing

Forschungsprojekt

Photo: Stephan Dudeck

"Gender in the Arctic" Research Network

Project lead: Univ.-Prof. Dr. J. Otto Habeck
Duration: 2014 - min. 2023

Tracc

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TraCC - Translating Climate Change

Project lead: Michael Schnegg, Thomas Friedrich
Duration: 2017 - ongoing