Making Heidelberg a Home while Longing for a Global City – by Magdalena von Drachenfels
“For now our home is Heidelberg” says Laila Khan (all the names have been changed) and, pointing towards her one year old son, Shahid, she adds: “He was…
Author: anthropologiphone
Homing Heidelberg – a Student Project Exploring Refugee’s Ways of Navigating the City
By Marie Sander, lecturer of the seminar Transcultural Place-Making How can we understand the idea of ‘home’ in times of migration? Is ‘home’ a place, social ties, family,…
About Lice and International Studies
Today’s interview-partner for the series “Why Anthropology Today?!” is Isabelle Kues, a student of Anthropology and Political Science. Find out below why she associates anthropology …
An anonymous soon-to-be anthropologist reveals his thoughts
Unser heutiger Interviewpartner für unsere Reihe über den Sinn von Ethnologie studiert Geschichte und Ethnologie im 7. Semester. Er möchte gerne anonym bleiben, ist aber der Redaktion namentlich…
Anthropology Calling: PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek
PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek begann sein Studium der Ethnologie, Indologie und Religionswissenschaft im Jahre 1981. Am Anfang seiner mittlerweile fast 25 Jahre währenden Lehrtätigkeit, damals noch ohne fest…
Ethnographic films by anthropology students from Heidelberg
Ethnographic film has since long its place in the field of Anthropology. Heidelberg is no exception to this, where every list for a course on ethnographic filmmaking is…
“Something like history?… Or about volcanos?”
How often are you asked “Do you study about volcanos?”, when you talk about your profession as a (soon-to-be) anthropologist? While we anthropologists tend to self-reflect a lot…