During this year’s summer term I am going to offer an advanced seminar I christened “Ethnologie enzyklopädisch”, roughly translated “Sociocultural Anthropology encyclopedia style”. The widely visible result of the seminar shall be a completely overworked entry ↑Ethnologie—and maybe changing of items closely linked to it—within the German version of the Wikipedia. The rationale behind the project consists of a row of strategical thoughts and didactical ponderings.  First of all the Wikipedia is widely consulted and read, an empirical piece of reality not to ignore. Hence for the sake of the discipline we simply have to make sure that the entry … Continue reading →