Projects
Subject: What we do research on
The focus is on cultural practices and value systems, which can be examined across a wide variety of areas. These include, for example, everyday life, festive and leisure activities, gender roles, social hierarchies, power relations, forms of belief, conventions, rituals, and digital communication.
Bamberg's Research Focus
- Human-Environment Relations and Agro-Food Studies
e.g., food cultures, eating habits, agricultural production, historical and contemporary conceptions of nature and sustainability - Intangible Cultural Heritage
e.g., traditional knowledge of nature, rural lifestyles, craft techniques and historical working methods, customs, celebrations and events, oral traditions and narratives - Medicine and Culture
e.g., historical developments in medicine, relationships between doctors and patients, cultural perspectives on illness and health, medicine and gender - Objects and Museums
e.g., buildings, dwellings, clothing, tools, images, furniture, museum objects, object biographies
