Welcome to this website!
We invite you to discover the lives, ideas and research activities of the anthropologists who participated in the video project on “The History of Federal German Anthropology”. The interviews on this platform were conducted in German. English subtitles are provided. Since some German terminology is difficult to translate without altering meaning, we also provide a glossary (top right of the page).
There are two main ways of accessing the videos and information on this platform:
Firstly, you can use the quick access situated on the bottom left hand-corner of your computer screen: the "summary" gives you an overview of the interviews; you can also access via the "institutions" at which the interviewed anthropologists have been active, or the "regions", in which they have conducted research; finally, the "timeline" informs you on central events in German anthropology.
Secondly, you can use the tabs “video interviews” and “short portraits” located at the upper right hand-corner in order to enter and search the main video site, or to access further information on german anthropologists (before and after 1945). A third button provides access to the pdf-versions of all interviews carried out during the project (in German language only). Several of these interviews were not video recorded and are available as pdf, only ("additional interviews in German").
This online portal was created as part of the research project on "The History of Federal German Anthropology from 1945 to 1990” (Fachgeschichte der bundesdeutschen Ethnologie von 1945 bis 1990). For more information see “project” and “sponsors”.
The portal is dedicated with gratitude to the scientists who participated in the project (and to my cousin Eberhard Haußmann (1958-2006), who taught me to love anthropology from my school years onwards). More interviews and information will follow in the upcoming months (July 2011 onwards).