Holding:
* about 107,829 volumes, 491 current journals and series with regional focus on Africa, America, Indonesia, Oceania
* topical focus: Ethnology/Anthropology, cultural history, petroglyphs/ carvings, material culture
* exchanges with over 185 institutions over the world
A search for materials from the Frobenius Institut's collections and archives is not possible here. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
As Germany's oldest ethnological research institute, it is in charge of four scientific collections, several excerpts and various scientific legacies. The contents of the collection are the product of a collecting and documentation activity started in 1898, and continued in 1938 after the death of its founder, Leo Frobenius. One of the most remarkable features of the Frobenius research expeditions was the great importance given to visual forms of documentation, which led to the creation of a collection of picture documents quite unique in Europe. Affiliated to the Frobenius-Institut is the Ethnological Library which has been founded in 1898 as a reference library and today is one of the most important libraries with focus on ethnology. ... [according to site editor's information]
The World Archives of Rock Art originally were a project of the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (Italy) with support of Unesco. Unfortunately, the whole homepage of the Centro, including the Archive, is not accessible at the moment. A collaborator of the project put a reduced version online on his private site where pictures cannot be enlarged. You can search by countries or key words. ... [editors ilissAfrica]