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The Frobenius-Institute


Leo Frobenius (1873 - 1938)

The Frobenius-Institut focuses anthropological, historical and prehistorical research, since its foundation mainly in Africa , but also including South and Southeast Asia, Australia, South and North America and Oceania. More recently, its activity has been concentrated on research of cultural appropriation processes within the context of globalisation.

As Germany's oldest anthropological research institution, the Frobenius Institute holds four scientific collections and a number of scientific legacies. The holdings are the product of a collecting and documentation activity which started in 1898 and continued well after the death of the Institute's founder, Leo Frobenius, in 1938. One of the most remarkable features were the Institute's numerous research expeditions during which great importance was given to visual documentation. This lead to the creation of a large pictorial archive quite unique in Europe (online image databank). Affiliated to the Frobenius-Institut is the Anthropological Library which has been founded in 1898 as a research library and which today counts among the most important libraries with focus on anthropology (catalogue).

As an autonomous institution, the Frobenius-Institut is associated to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and works in close collaboration with the Institut für Ethnologie (Institute for Ethnology), as well as with the Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of World Cultures) in the city of Frankfurt am Main.

Aktuell

Jensen-Gedächtnisvorlesung 2013

Prof. Dr. Nancy Lutkehaus (Los Angeles)

From Artifact to 'Primitive Art'

The Inevitability of Cultural Commodification?

montags 18 Uhr c.t.

27. Mai - 8. Juli 2013

Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Casino Gebäude

Raum 1.811

Aktuelle Vorträge von Mitarbeitern im Mai

6. Mai 2013

16 Uhr

Prof. apl. Dr. Holger Jebens

"Ethnologie, Museen und Utopie"

Colloquium zu laufenden Forschungsarbeiten, Campus Westend, Raum 501 #

8. Mai 2013

19 Uhr

Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl

"Das Problem der Kultur - Leo Frobenius und der Primitivismus in der deutschen Völkerkunde"

Museum Giersch, Schaumainkai 83, Frankfurt am Main

Neuerscheinungen

Sabine Dinslage und Brigitte Templin (Hrsg.)

Günther Tessmann: Mein Leben - Tagebuch in 12 Bänden (Teil 1)

Schmid-Römhild, 477 Seiten

ISBN: 978-3795052096

Karl-Heinz Kohl
Ethnologie - die Wissenschaft von kulturell Fremden: Eine Einführung
3. aktualisierte und erweitere Auflage
C.H. Beck
ISBN 978-3-406-46835-3

paideuma 2011.jpg Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde - 58 (2012)

Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln: Kohlhammer

ISBN: 978-3-17-022348-6

Mit Beiträgen von: Gerhard Baer, Alice Wilson, Dominik Schieder, Alexandra Widmer, Miriam Benteler, Sebastian Schellhaas, Mario Schmidt, Heike Kämpf, Hans Peter Hahn

Schwerpunktthema: "Cultural Diversity in Ethiopia"

kaiser und forscher.jpg

Christoph Johannes Franzen, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Marie-Luise Recker (Hrsg.): Der Kaiser und sein Forscher. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Wilhelm II. und Leo Frobenius (1924-1938)

Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln: Kohlhammer, 664 S.

ISBN: 978-3-17-019021-4

Forschungsförderungspreis 2012

Mit dem Forschungsförderpreis des Frobenius-Instituts 2012 wurde am 13. Oktober

Dr. des. Dominik Müller

für seine Dissertation

"Islamism, Youth and the Contestation of the Normative Orders: A Study on the Youth Wing of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (Dewan Permuda PAS)"

ausgezeichnet.