Author: Markus Hoehne

Markus Virgil Hoehne is lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Leipzig. He has worked for many years at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) and finalised his PhD at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2011. His dissertation was on Political Orientations and Repertoires of Identification: State and Identity
Formation in Northern Somalia.

Markus Hoehne

100 years of (socio-cultural) anthropology in Leipzig – An introduction

December, 2014 / By Markus Hoehne

The institute of anthropology was founded in November 1914 as “Sächsische Forschungsinstitut für Völkerkunde” (Saxonian Research Institute for Ethnology). It […]