“Ethnology in the German Democratic Republic (GDR): (Re-)Migration and Transfer of Knowledge behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ ”
Ingrid Kreide‑Damani, 2020
1. Introduction
Shortly before the Cold War culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the American anthropological journal Current Anthropology informed the English-speaking scientific community about “Anthropological and Folkloristic Institutions in the German Democratic Republic”. [1] The author of the report was Eva Lips, one of the leading ethnologists of the GDR. Eva Lips (1906-1988), (...)