Category Archives: anthropology

bombenkrater discussion

Posted on by October 14, 2012
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more aspective thoughts on cyberculture    First of all a big tnx to Jens and ↑warauduati for pondering ↵bombenkrater fusion on such a scale and for posting ↵extensive comments—which in turn induced intensive pondering at my side … exactly the way I envision blogs like this to “work”… warauduati wrote:  I think the basic problems I have are that I am not quite sure as far I should think of the ↑Bombenkrater being a case study or a general statement on cyberculture as part of culture. Your first missile heads right home upon a true anthropological core issue: “What is … Continue reading →

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online pooja

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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  In his blog-entry ↑“Meenakshi Blesses the Internet” ↑Scott Carney tells us:  It was only a matter of time before the goddess Meenakshi descended from her lofty perch and began to distribute her blessings over the World Wide Web. The Meenakshi temple in Madurai is one of the most sacred sites for Hindus yet not everyone is able to make a pilgrimage into central Tamil Nadu to be blessed by the goddess.  The answer came when the CEO of Winways, Mr. R Sivarajah teamed up with the temple staff and created a ↑website where members can put in advanced requests … Continue reading →

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ha long

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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  And she did it yet again! After ↵balineros and ↵mecaniqueros my old army course of studies buddy ↑Joanna Michna has left the Americas and did a movie in the north of Vietnam, called ↑“Ha Long Bay’s floating hamlets”:  Especially in February Ha Long Bay feels very mystical. Between wafts of mist bizarre rocks tower above the water. According to a legend at this very place an enormous dragon once defended the humans against intruders. During the battle his tail divided the land, the remains then got surrounded by water. That way about 2000 little islands were created—most of them … Continue reading →

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teaching cyberpunk

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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The second course I will teach during the upcoming winterterm will deal with my ideas of possible connections between cyberpunk and anthropology as jotted down in previous entries: ↵writing culture and cyberpunk, ↵anthropology voight-kampff style, ↵anthropology’s shades. Here’s the abstract:  This course is based on a maybe deviant idea, it is an experiment, but by far not the first one in sociocultural anthropology. Since the 1980s experimental writing, even literary ethnographies are asked for again and again. Maybe even since a decade earlier modern anthropology is prompted to deliver social and cultural critique. In principle contemporary anthropology is able to … Continue reading →

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teaching appropriation

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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As cultural appropriation definitely is my favourite paradigm I will teach a course on it during the upcoming winter term. Here’s the abstract:  With sociocultural anthropology opening itself up to modernity and the global, the paradigm of cultural appropriation of worldwide diffusing goods achieved a prominent place. This model for further discussion emerged from observing local rededications of artefacts completely unanticipated by the creators of the artefacts in question. Therefore cultural appropriation is a counterdraft to interpretations of globalisation as either culturally leveling or as abetting cultural fundamentalism. The perspective of the concept of appropriation furthers the understanding of global … Continue reading →

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hypergeertz

Posted on by October 3, 2012
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  Last term some students complained that Evans-Pritchard’s classic “Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande” (1937) was no more to be found in our library. All the copies we held on stock apparently have been stolen. Which is a shame. Furthermore the students informed me that the German version of the book is out of print for several years already. A shame all the more. Those dreaded copyright restrictions—at least the classical texts of anthropology, indispensable for coursework, should be available online. In the case of the German version of Evans-Pritchard’s above mentioned book the situation is a little … Continue reading →

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