The Great Intoxication
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| Admission: 10 EUR, reduced 5 EUR |
| Ticket: Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Venue: Ethnologisches Museum, 2. OG |
For thousands of years, people in all cultures have had diverse experiences with intoxication. They seek it, they fear it and it leaves its traces, images and stories in the most diverse corners. During a tandem tour of the ethnological collection, drug historian Helena Barop and ancient Americanist Carolina Pretell will go in search of such traces and the stories of ritual, medicine, religion and loss of control that lie behind them.
Participants
Helena Barop was born in Bonn in 1986 and lives with her family in Freiburg. Since completing her doctorate on American drug history in 2021, she has been working as a freelance author, historian, ghostwriter, editor and director. Her book Der große Rausch. Why Drugs are Criminalized. A Global History from the 19th Century to Today was published by Siedler in October 2023.
Carolina Pretell, born and raised in Argentina, studied Fine Arts in Argentina and Art History/Alto-American Studies in Berlin. She works as a freelance mediator for the Ethnological Museum / Museum of Asian Art.