Karl-Heinz Kohl

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Director of the Frobenius Institute
Professor for cultural anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Full member of the scientific society of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (section arts and humanities)
"Principal Investigator" of the cluster of excellence "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen" at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Chairman of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde
Editor of    The journal "Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde"
                 The series "Studien zur Kulturkunde" and "Religionsethnologische Studien"

Research focus: History and theory of anthropology, anthropology of religion, xenology

Regional focus: Eastern Indonesia, Melanesia

Research projects: 

- Konstitution und Transformation indigener Wissenskulturen in Nordamerika;
- Prozesse der Indigenisierung des Katholizismus in Indonesien;
- Creation of a systematic type index for the comparative disclosure of the unedited African stories/storytelling collection in the Frobenius Institute;
- Digitisation and cataloging of the Frobenius Institute's Pictorial Archive
- Cluster of excellence "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen"