28 May 2008

Asien-Afrika-Institut (AAI)
AAI, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany.
Self-description: "The focus in research at the Asien-Afrika-Institut is about the geographic area from the West of Africa to Indonesia. The focuses are the history and nowadays language, culture, society and economy. The Asien-Afrika-Institut is host for quite a number of research projects. [...] Departments of the Asien-Afrika-Institut: Sprache und Kultur Japans, Sprache und Kultur Chinas, Arbeitsbereich fuer Koreanistik, Sprachen und Kulturen Suedostasiens, Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients, Afrikanistik und Aethiopistik."
Site contents:
* About us; * Study; * Research (CURRENT PROJECTS: DFG-Forschergruppe: Manuskriptkulturen in Asien und Afrika (2008 -), Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (2002 -), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Centre for Tantric Studies, Zentrum fuer Buddhismuskunde. FINISHED PROJECTS: Forschungsbericht 1997-1999, Forschungsbericht 1994-1996, DFG Projekt: Manuskriptologie des chinesischen Altertums (2002 - 2005), Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (1970 - 2002), Sonderforschungsbereich 520: Umbrueche in afrikanischen Gesellschaften und ihre Bewaeltigung (1999 - 2003)); * Library (Sub-Libraries, Catalogues, Service, Persons); * Support; * Service * News (Talks and Events, Jobs, Misc.).
A bi-lingual [DE,EN] site.
URL http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at-coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000