Africa in the View of the Academic World of the GDR: An Overview of the History of African Ethnography. Ethnography – also referred to as ethnology by the GDR – was a “minor subject” in which typical big science problems such as mass‐study and large‐scale research played no role. It was therefore not the focus of science policy interventions by the state and/or its ruling party. Nevertheless, ethnographic research, exemplified by the sub‐discipline related to Africa, remained within the limits set by the state and ruling party. Despite of these relative restrictions, the two East German universities in Berlin and Leipzig, as well as the ethnological museums in Leipzig and Dresden, have succeeded in presenting research results that are relevant and remain valid to the present day.

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Afrika im Blick der akademischen Welt der DDR。Ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Überblick der afrikabezogenen Ethnographie

东德学术界眼中的非洲：非洲人种学史概述。民族志——也被东德称为民族学——是一门“次要学科”，在其中，大众研究和大规模研究等典型的大科学问题没有发挥作用。因此，它不是国家和/或其执政党科学政策干预的重点。尽管如此，以与非洲相关的分支学科为例的民族志研究仍然在国家和执政党设定的范围内。尽管存在这些相对限制，柏林和莱比锡的两所东德大学，以及莱比锡和德累斯顿的民族学博物馆，仍然成功地展示了相关的研究成果，并且直到今天仍然有效。