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Tim Ingold
|Anthropologist
“Anthropology, in my definition, is philosophy with the people in.”
Uwe Dettmar
Are you interested in social diversity, global interrelationships, and current political debates? Would you like to understand how people live, work, believe, argue, and shape the future in different contexts? Then studying social and cultural anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt is the right choice for you.
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Marc Jacquemin
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Kirsten Lankenau
Holding more than 138.000 titles (as of 2026), the Frankfurt Frobenius Library of Cultural Anthropology is the most significant specialist library for Social and Cultural Anthropology in the German-speaking world.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
|Anthropologist
“We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us—but it might open our imaginations.”
Mirco Göpfert