http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress personal ethnological notes ... and more Sat, 17 May 2008 11:31:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Afrika - Afroamerika Einführung in die Afroamerikanistik Aktualisiert 17.05.2008, 13:30 Uhr Accompanying page for students participating in the above course at University of Bayreuth ... Quicklink to Downloads and Articles ... (Protected !!!) Quicklink to "Seminarplan Afrika - Afroamerika" (doc, 95 kb) http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/afrika-afroamerika/ Contrary to the previous two posts here is some Garífuna Hip Hop directly from Brooklyn, New York City, USA, by Don Pakko featuring Big Mama & Negg, who I met some weeks ago. Here their video produced by AWP Productions and R-Daniels Films. It's all about cultural adaptation and the ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/garifuna-hip-hop/ "Baba" by Adrian Martínez at the Paranda Festival on Why-Not Island, Dangriga, Belize as part of the Garífuna Settlement Day celebrations, November 17th, 2007. Just to enjoy! http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/baba/ "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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/andy-palacio-garifuna/ 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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/cyberspace-ethnography/ Andy Palacio, an iconic musician and activist of Garifuna culture crowned with success last year with his album "Wátina", one of the most critically acclaimed recordings of the year in any genre, tragically passed away two nights ago. A national hero in his homeland Belize already, he was named a ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/andy-palacio/ 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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/americanisms/ 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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/maxmod/ "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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/multimedia-report-tsunami/ The reason for stumbling across Gloria Rosales' weather forecast (below) was my subscription to Betomango (Betoman Studios at La Ceiba) at YouTube, who posted a rather more interesting video back in March 2007. Yankee Col, La Vieja Escuela, and the here on various occasions featured Aurelio Martinez had joined together ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/carnaval-ceibeno/ I have no clue, why everything has to be posted at YouTube, but I found it funny enough and enjoyed the Honduran forecast by Gloria Rosales at 45tv. Sunny moments in wintertime. http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/sunny-moments/ Linda Radford, believe it or not my host mom during my student exchange year in 1994/95 in Bismarck, Missouri, has engaged herself in a very neat little project. Co-authored by her lifelong friend Linda Derby, currently residing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but also born and raised in the bluff only about ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/project-bismarck/ "This video was shot in el Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras, by Carlos Valladares for Ecos Latinos. Numada was written by Angel Rios (violinist) and he recog- nizes the struggle that the Garifuna people goes through, to keep their tra- ditions, language and culture alive. Numada is part of the ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/numada/ Photos taken within December 2007 in Eschach/Buchenberg in the Allgäu. http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/new-year-2008/ Onset of winter in the Allgäu: 50cm of snow the last 24 hours, 50 more to come. The furnace is roaring. Sunshine Only Within. http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/sunshine-only-within/ 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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/herbst-ethnologik/ 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 ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/maximilian-forte/ .:*~*:._.:*~*:. Snow Falls Softly At Night .:*~*:._.:*~*:. .:*~*:._.:*~*:. When I Woke Up It Was White .:*~*:._.:*~*:. .:*~*:._.:*~*:. Na, na, na, na, na, na, naaaa .:*~*:._.:*~*:. .:*~*:._.:*~*:. Na, na, na, na, na, na, naaaa .:*~*:._.:*~*:. http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/first-snow/ Always a good one - Tom Wilson and Bob Lanois - Dig it! Greets and cheers to my Canadian friends ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/dig-it-dude/ My neighbours vote on Sunday: Parliamentary Elections 2007 in Switzerland. Here alarming capaign posters by the Swiss People's Party (SVP): Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP) - Swiss People's Party (official website) Volksinitiative für die Ausschaffung krimineller Ausländer - - Initiative to expel foreign criminals (official website) The tumultuous debate on immigration is nothing new. Links ... http://www.murschhauser.net/wordpress/archives/black-sheeps-in-switzerland/