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Maike Powroznik

Maike Powroznik, Dr.

  • Leitungsgremium
  • Kuratorin Amerika
Phone
+41 44 634 90 20

Research interests

Material culture and practical knowledge, the museum as ethical space of engagement, human-animal-relations, hunting anthropology, digital transformation

Regional specialization

Americas, Switzerland, Germany 

Short bio

Dr. Maike Powroznik is a curator at the Ethnolographic Museum. She completed her doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Philipps University of Marburg in 2011. Prior to this, she studied Social and Cultural Anthropology and Art History, also in Marburg, with a regional focus on Latin America and museum anthropology.

A cross-cutting theme of her research is practical knowledge and material culture as well as museum ethnology. She is particularly interested in questions of skill, knowledge and memory preserved in tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In collaborative projects, she conducts research together with contemporary members of heritage societies on their knowledge materialized in collections and on the historical and recent meanings of this cultural heritage as a component of world knowledge. The aim of this joint multi-perspective research into material culture is to encounter it anew today. Based on the knowledge, experiences and current concerns of creators and other stakeholders, new and different perspectives are to be stimulated and made visible in order to find new paths towards a common future.

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