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- Title
Afrika im Blick der akademischen Welt der DDR. Ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Überblick der afrikabezogenen Ethnographie.
- Authors
van der Heyden, Ulrich
- Abstract
Ethnography – also referred to as ethnology by the GDR – was a "minor subject" in which typical big science problems such as mass‐study and large‐scale research played no role. It was therefore not the focus of science policy interventions by the state and/or its ruling party. Nevertheless, ethnographic research, exemplified by the sub‐discipline related to Africa, remained within the limits set by the state and ruling party. Despite of these relative restrictions, the two East German universities in Berlin and Leipzig, as well as the ethnological museums in Leipzig and Dresden, have succeeded in presenting research results that are relevant and remain valid to the present day.
- Subjects
GERMANY (East); ETHNOLOGY; SCIENCE &; state; AFRICANA studies; HISTORY of social sciences
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201901907