Anne Folke Henningsen

Anne Folke Henningsen

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S

20002019

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

  • Museologi
  • Køn, race og etnicitet
  • Etnografiske udstillinger
  • Autenticitetsforestillinger
  • Etnologiens metodiske problemstillinger

Current research

Participation in collaborative research project Museum: A Culture of Copies, University of Oslo, with the sub-project Casting Culture: Copying People, dealing with ethnographic mannequins and sound recordings: www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/a-culture-of-copies

Post.doc.project (2012-2014): Knowing oneself through the Other: The ethnographic collections at the Danish National Museum as arena for negotiation of national identity

Post.doc.project (2009-2010): Exhibitions of 'exotic' people in Copenhagen Zoo and Tivoli

Knowledge of languages

  • Engelsk
  • Norsk
  • Svensk
  • Tysk

Teaching

  • Museologi
  • Køn, race og etnicitet
  • Historiebrug
  • Kulturarv
  • Religion
  • Global kulturhistorie
  • Rejseberetninger
  • Transnational migration
  • Kultur og historie i det sydlige Afrika

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • museology
  • cultural heritage
  • race / racism
  • cultural history
  • gender
  • globalization
  • ethnographic exhibitions
  • South Africa