Reise durch Nubien – Fotos einer Expedition um 1900

Travels in Nubia – Photographs of an expedition around 1900

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Nubia around 1900, sunken worlds on rediscovered photographs from the Egyptian Museum Berlin; in the course of indexing the museum's photographic archive, 340 photographs from an expedition to the region between the first and second Nile cataracts have reappeared, a …

Shepheard’s of Cairo

The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel

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The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little scholarly work on the building due to the near total absence of visual …

Westcar on the Nile

A journey through Egypt in the 1820s

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On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the course of their travels, witnessed the turmoils of a …

Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus

Julius Lips und die Geschichte der »Völkerkunde«; Teil 1: Julius Lips, Martin Heydrich und die (Deutsche) Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde; Teil 2: Eva und Julius Lips: Kontexte ihres Wirkens

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When in November 1933 the American anthropologist Leslie Spears responded to a letter by Martin Heydrich, editor of the German academic journal “Ethnologischer Anzeiger”, he stated quite clearly:

“With many colleagues in the United States, I share the feeling that we …