Frankfurt am Main

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**An other Look at Frankfurt am Main** Places and topics of this anthropological city guide: the central train station district • the municipal Office for Multicultural Affairs • the Frankfurt Ballet • cyber cafes • the border between a fashionable quarter and a multicultural housing area • Leo Frobenius, the “Frankfurter” • the Institute of Historical Ethnology • the IG Farben building on its way to the Westend campus of the university • Jewish Frankfurt and its historical traces • spaces of youth culture • the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology • the river Main • the riverside museum ensemble • the Ethnographic Museum • living in Ernst May’s Römerstadt today • sculptures in public spaces • the Frankfurt School and the Institut für Sozialforschung • the ‘Wasserhäuschen’ culture of refreshment kiosks in Frankfurt • the Westend • the central pedestrian zone of Zeil • the Frankfurt Zoo • over the rooftops of the city • the Rhine Main region looks at its metropolis