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Tabu, Kultur, Amazon @ Kulturtransfer Migrationshintergrund

Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, einen Migrationshintergrund hat

Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „Amok” bezeichnete die legendäre militärische Kampfeswut malayischer Elitekämpfer. Das Hakenkreuz – ein deutsches Fanal des Hasses – geht auf ein indisches Symbol des Glücks zurück, die

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Why my Humanities Library will never be a Total Library–praise be!

Until the beginning of the 1990s, the humanities department at the University of Bern (Switzerland) lived a kind of cellular life, fragmented into the smallest possible units, a diaspora existence in scattered houses. With the construction of the Unitobler in 1993, the humanities were given a center that would make

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thor.news highlights outreach initiatives and events at the  Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bern and beyond

Public Anthropology Lab: Against Neutrality! Interventions on Decolonizing Swiss Economies and Ecologies, 28.-30.11.2025

“Against Neutrality!” is a collaborative platform for artistic, ethnographic and activist interventions which deconstruct the system of “neutralization” and instead make tangible Swiss complicity in global economic and ecological violence. Join the talks, screenings, workshops, social gatherings and more in the Kunsthalle Bern and Grand Palais Bern from 28 to 30 November 2025. Free entry! Graphic Design: Christina Baeriswyl.

Der WBKollektion Podcast ist online!

Wer sind die Menschen hinter den Forschungsergebnissen? In WBKollektion gehen Lea Hagmann und Martin Ritzmann dieser Frage nach. Hört in die erste Folge mit Addrich Mauch zur Schweizer Gamingkultur rein.