Public Lecture Social & Cultural Anthropology

On 7th of April 2022, CRC228 researcher Michael Bollig gave a public lecture on the topic “Social and Cultural Anthropology – challenges and options for interdisciplinary engagement: perspectives from Germany” at our cooperation partner University of Namibia.

Social and Cultural Anthropology has been taught at Universities in the Global North since the late 19th century and in southern Africa since the 1920s. Through one hundred years of academic development it has liaised with different disciplines. His paper tries to capture the role of social and cultural anthropology in Germany in the early 21st century in the interdisciplinary concert of academic disciplines. It focusses on interdisciplinary entanglements in teaching and research. Due to the broad interests of the discipline ranging from livelihood studies and household economies to religion and spirituality anthropologists are capable to communicate into different directions.

In his talk, Prof. Bollig argued that based on BA courses that provide for sound methodological training and multiple theoretical orientations, MA courses should offer both more specialization and various interdisciplinary options. In the research set up social and cultural anthropology can work convincingly with various other disciplines especially if it is allowed to bring in its holistic grasp of complex couplings of society, culture, economy and nature.

Visit related CRC-project page.

More CRC News

group foto taken at a workshop

Dissemination Workshop in Dodoma: Discussing Futures of Rural Transformation

On 25 April 2025, the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) Future Rural Africa co-hosted a Dissemination Workshop in Dodoma, Tanzania together with the German Institute of ...
Read More »
Thumbnail of a video featuring anna-katharina hornidge

Video: Anna-Katharina Hornidge on Research, Training and Value Chain Development in Tanzania

Anna-Katharina Hornidge is the director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and researcher in Future Rural Africa Project B05 Science Futures. She ...
Read More »
geothermal energy plant in Kenya

New Publication: The Unintended Socio-Economic Transformations of Kenya’s Green Energy Boom

In this new publication, Clemens Greiner, Britta Klagge, Samuel Owuor (Project C02 Energy Futures) alognside Cynthia Wamukota and Isaiah Nyandega examine the unintended socio-economic impacts of ...
Read More »
Group photo with the minister, Deputy Minsiter, Parmanent Secretary, the Board members

Professor Theobald Frank Theodory Appointed to NEMC Board of Directors

We are proud to share that Professor Dr. Theobald Frank Theodory of Mzumbe University, Tanzania, and cooperation partner of Project C03 Green Futures, has been ...
Read More »
image of an african savannah

New Publication: How Land-Use Change Shapes Carbon Storage in African Savannas

In this article, Liana Kindermann, Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann, Wulf Amelung, Jan Börner, J., Ezequiel Fabiano, Maximilian Meyer and Anja Linstädter (Project A01 Future Carbon Storage) and ...
Read More »
Scroll to Top