Salman bin Satriya
Student assistant under Prof. Dr. Andrea Lauser since 2021 and 2022-2023 under Dr. Michael Kraus. 2022-2023 Intern at the Ethnographic Collection of the University of Göttingen. Assisted with the BMBF-financed project "On the Materiality of (Forced) Migration", production of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture-supported digital education units "Museumsethnologische Praxis - Erforschen, Vermitteln und Ausstellen". Typsetter for several issues of the GISCA Occasional Paper series.
Salman competed his bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen in 2025. His bachelor's thesis concerns keris daggers in European collections and the presence of keris in European works. The thesis was published in the GISCA Occasional Papers Series as issue No. 42 in 2026.
Thematic Interests
Museum Anthropology; Material Culture; Multi-cultural Societies; (Post-)Colonial Studies.
Regions of Focus
Insular Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei); Eastern Mediterranean/former Ottoman territories; East Asia, particularly Japan und China.
Publications
Keris Crossing the Globe: Examining European Encounters with the Keris through Exemplars in the Ethnographic Collection of the University of Göttingen. Göttingen: Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi: https://doi.org/10.47952/gro-publ-374
Der Kris. Von der märchenhaften Waffe zum Identitätssymbol. In: Michael Kraus (2024, ed.): Weltenfragmente. Die Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Pp. 382-384. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen[DOI]