The analysis distinguished among three dimensions of knowledge, which are constantly connected to each other : ideas and assumptions about the world the media and the representations through which knowledge is communicated and the organized social relationships in which knowledge is disseminated (Barth 2002). In addition to an historical reappraisal of the history of ethnology in the German Democratic Republic ( GDR), the project made use of a broad understanding of cultural-anthropological research into knowledge, including its historical contexts. Zur Wissensgeschichte der Ethnologie in der DDR) (2017-2018), which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and conducted in cooperation between the Department of Ancient American Studies of the Institute for Archeology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bonn and the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
This article presents partial results of the research project “Actors – Practices – Theories : On the History of Ethnology in the GDR (German Democratic Republic)” (Akteurinnen – Praxen – Theorien.
