Hans Peter Hahn

Hans Peter Hahn teaches as a professor for ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and specialises in material culture, museums, consumption, migration and mobility, as well as globalisation. Focusing on West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo), his current research relates to the concept of “value-in-things” and logics of collecting. Since October 2022 he is a guest researcher at the University of Ghana in Accra (Legon) and works with his Ghanaian partner on the topic “What is Restitution?”. He has published several relevant anthologies and numerous essays on the subject of “things”, analysing from various perspectives how the material determines or enables cultural action.