The Caucasus database is intended to bring together cultural anthropological research on the Caucasus, especially the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan). As there is no long tradition of Caucasus research at the Frobenius Institute, the recent work of Susanne Fehlings, who joined the Frobenius Institute in 2019, and her team members form the starting point for the development of the database.
Central to this are materials collected and processed as part of the project "Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus". The project was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation from 2016-2024 and led by Susanne Fehlings and dealt with markets and bazaars, the lives of small traders and theoretical questions of economic anthropology. Project collaborators included Hasan Karrar, Ketevan Khutsishvili, Hamlet Melkumyan and Philippe Rudaz.
The archive is to be successively enriched by materials from other projects as well as contributions and bequests from other Caucasus researchers.
