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Afrika - Afroamerika
Einführung in die Afroamerikanistik
Aktualisiert 10.05.2008, 14:15 Uhr
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“World music enthusiasts around the globe are mourning the unexpected death of Andy Palacio, Belizean musician and leader of the international movement to preserve Garifuna language and culture. The Garifuna are a hybrid culture descended from African and indigenous Caribbean ancestors. Palacio’s latest album Wátina (’I called out’) released in 2007, propelled him to the […]

Maximilian Forte’s new experimental course, Cyberspace Ethnography, at Concordia University in Montreal might not be that experimental after all to the students of zephyrin_xirdal at the University of Munich, but for everyone else interested in the subject, I can only recommend to take a look at ANTH 498C, because although we might not be able […]

Just a little reminder for everyone interested. The International Conference “Americanisms” at the Bayreuth Institute for American Studies (BIAS) is going to take place the 31st of January to the 1st of February 2008.
Abstract:
“The idea of an American singularity has not only been one of the founding pillars of national self-perception but has also worked […]

Zephyrin_xirdal, currently assistant professor at the Department of Anthro- pology in Munich, provided his audience with a definite abstract of his project - an ethnography of cyberculture. Highly interesting and relevant, and not only for anthropologists, why I am also featuring his long standing work here…
Abstract
“The project is based upon longlasting and sustainable anthropological […]

“A bit belated”, just like zephyrin wrote, but with the same congratulations for our friend and colleague Matthias Eberl for publishing his audio slideshow “Drei Jahre nach dem Tsunami” (in German) at Spiegel Online, asking what happened to the donations to a small fishing village in the South of India - the Prana Project iniciated […]

The students of the Department of Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München have just published their new edition of Ethnologik. Various articles and interviews are not only available online now, they may also be commented and discussed thanks to the new structure of ethnologik.de. In the magazine’s category “Normal in München” the […]

Almost a shame that, as being an afficionado of his work, I hadn’t noticed till now, and only via antropologi.info, that Maximilian Forte launched a new blog just about a month ago: Open Anthropology.
Known from KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology as well as The CAC Review, he currently is […]

… at least I am very grateful for new possibilities.
“Africa in America: An Ethnological Perspective on Black Identity in the Americas”

International Conference at the Bayreuth Institute for American Studies (BIAS) in Bayreuth, Germany, 31st of January and 1st of February 2008.

“Die kulturelle Revitalisierung der Garínagu in Honduras: Von kultureller Dynamik und Nostalgie” (The cultural […]

The second phase of my field research has begun. First a few days in New York, USA, to interview Garínagu migrated to Manhattan and Brooklyn, then once again in the community of San Juan near Tela, Honduras, and the surrounding villages. You all have a great summer …