After one month travel(l)ing Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, and a very few days of re-organization, I headed to Toronto right before starting the first part of my doctoral field research in Honduras. I simply had to take this opportunity to finally visit some old friends again, once met about nine years ago in a […]
Well, everyone, this is my call to head off for field research, finally. Last days have been very busy because of all the midterm evaluation and organization to be done. I wish I could have posted more lately but I actually just finished in time just to get all my stuff ready for take-off. In […]
It has almost been a week since I returned from my short-break holiday in southern France and I am already all the way up into preparation for the real gig. Besides digging my head into the correction and evaluation of the midterm exam at our department and going at it hammer and tongs to finish […]
And last but not least … No. 4: The newest debate is about the editorial of the new edition of Ethnologik, the student magazine of the Department of Ethnology and African Studies in Munich. The new crew, many thanks to them for publishing a wonderful new issue with enlightening and exciting articles (although I have […]
And here is No. 3: Since my entry on Stevie Ryan aka Littleloca, the new born YouTube Star, I received tons of hits and various comments on yet another issue of stereotypes, ethnicity and identity. It would be too much to get into the whole thing again, I only use the opportunity to at least […]
Here is No.2: You might remember my post on Pirates of the Caribbean 2, there I already mentioned the discussion that is going on for quite a few weeks now, how the new episode of the movie presents Caribs as Cannibals. By now there are more comments on the original CAC Review Entry as well […]
Within the last days there have been quite a few very interesting and valuable discussions going on … all regarding ethnology, the actual purpose of this blog. Although I won’t make a great fuss out of it, I just would like to let you know and welcome you to join. So here is No. 1: […]
A group of students at the Department of Ethnology in Münster has founded an open online-magazine for culture and society called Ethmundo.de. For their first edition they have chosen „Cannibalism“ as the number one topic. Besides a general introduction „Kannibalismus – Tod eines Mythos“ to the subject, there is a very interesting article about Anthropologist […]
Matthias Eberl has developped and programmed a new form of journalistic presentation: the multimedia report. When we spoke about this just a few days ago I couldn’t really envisage what he was talking about but now he has published his first report in co-operation with the youth magazine jetzt.de of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A very […]