Dept. of localica, Dijon, October 2, 2003 at 8:12:14 AM CEST

Lecture in the Munich Museum of Cultures

Donnerstag, 09.10.03, 19.00 Uhr Eintritt frei, „Orientalische Seidenstraße – Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Impressionen von Teheran bis Taschkent "Lichtbildervortrag von Dr. Kunigunde Boehmer-Bauer, Muenchen Ort: Museum für Völkerkunde, München

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Dept. of localica, warauduati, June 12, 2003 at 3:31:29 PM CEST

Institute Party / New "Ethnologik"

We a happy to announce the sommer party of our institute. Its taking place in the Oettingenstreet 67 in Munich, 18th June 2003, beginning at 20h. Here the announce in german:

Am Mittwoch, den 18. Juni 2003 findet im Biergarten des Instituts in der Oettingenstraße 67 um 20:00 Uhr das Ethnologische Sommerfest statt. Um 21:00 Uhr tritt die Band Phunkgerät auf mit anschließender Open Stage. Jeder, der letztes Jahr bereits mit dabei war, weiß, dass keiner diese Party versäumen sollte. Anschließend betätigen sich wieder die DJs Fishsurfer und Marc an den Turntables. Gegen einen kleinen Eintritt von 2,- Euro seid Ihr mit dabei. Es gibt Cocktails, Longdrinks, Bier und Wein zu sensationellen Preisen... Wir freuen uns auf Euch.

Des weiteren erwartet Euch in den nächsten zwei bis drei Wochen noch eine neue Ausgabe der Ethnologik, an der wir intensivst arbeiten... Jeder der noch eine Idee oder einen Beitrag hat, schreibt bitte an Marc. Die Ethnologik ist dann in den Seminaren, bei der Fachschaft und natürlich wie immer online erhältlich.

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Dept. of localica, nick name, June 6, 2003 at 5:32:23 PM CEST

"Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany"

"Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany" - this is the title of a conference in Munich, Germany. From June 10th to 13th there will speak Michael Kammen (Cornell University), Seyla Benhabib (Yale University), Demetri Papademetriou (Washington) and others in Amerikahaus, Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 München. It's the conference to 50th birthday of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). See more about the program (German version) at University's site and more about the DGfA (English version) here.

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Dept. of localica, nick name, June 6, 2003 at 3:11:47 PM CEST

Madunia, an NGO to support African musicians

Madunia is a Dutch NGO, initiating many projects dealing with African music. Madunia is having tow different web sites on different music genres in Africa. There are different projects such as making videos with artists, inviting them for concerts in Netherlands, producing their music (e.g. for Tanzanian rapper Mr. II in Amsterdam). There also is a documentary movie about East African HipHoppers, the movie is called Hali Halisi (a Swahili expression meaning "the real situation"). One of the web sites is about African HipHop, the other one is about past and future music including descriptions of musicians like Tondo who plays acoustic versions of classic and less well known rumba music from East Africa's 70's and 80's; like Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe and his Nigerian Sound Makers International from Nigeria; or like Mr. II from Dar Es Salaam (see him on the photo). People from Madunia also are responsible for some articles about African music styles.

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Dept. of localica, nick name, June 2, 2003 at 11:20:34 AM CEST

Hip-Hop in Africa

This famous web site (www.africanhiphop.com) contents many informations about Hip-Hop music in whole Africa. Its content manager is coming from Netherlands, and this site is one of the best existing sites about African Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop is an important tool for many young people in West and East Africa to describe how they see their world. And it's a very interesting anthropological topic. In Bayreuth where Africanists from e.g. Germany, Tanzania and Netherlands met last week-end, one of the topics, they talked about, was the role of Hip-Hop in East Africa.

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Dept. of localica, kerleone, May 20, 2003 at 10:53:40 PM CEST

Thanks for Coming!

Some hours ago we finished our introduction course to the Ethno::log, which was held here in Munich in our institute. I say thank you for your interest.

As mentioned, I provide at this place now additional information about our working group, all the links from my presentation and further information to the weblog phenomenon (in german).

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Dept. of localica, kerleone, May 20, 2003 at 3:41:31 PM CEST

A Introduction to the Ethno::log

Today, Wednesday the 21.May, a short introduction about the purpose and use of the Ethno::log will be held at the Munich Institute for Afrikanistik and Ethnologie. It's taking place from 13.00h - 14.00h in room 1.05 in the Oettingenstr. 67. Please be on time. People not involved in our institute or the study of Ethnologie are also welcome. After the tutorial all people who wish to join us in our efforts to build a working group (or editorial department) will be welcome about 14.00h in the kitchen of the institute.

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Dept. of localica, Dijon, May 12, 2003 at 4:53:07 PM CEST

Bollywood Films in the Goethe-Forum in Munich

Saturday, 24th May 2003, time 20.00 to 03.00, the Goethe-Forum of the Goethe Institute, Inter Nationes, Dachauer Strasse, near Leonrodplatz, Munich, invites to

BOLLYWOOD FILMNIGHT

20.15 Indian Dance 20.45 Film "Devadas" 00.00 Indian Dance 0.30 Surprise-Film

Devadas: One of the most beautiful films of Bollywood, at the same time the most expensive film ever produced in India, 35mm, 195min.. Direction: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Main actress: Aishwarya Rai (Miss Universe 1994). This film was proposed for an Oscar award.

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Dept. of localica, ak feldforschung, May 12, 2003 at 1:03:04 PM CEST

AK Feldforschung - Fieldwork’s in the air!

In order to tackle some of the practical aspects of fieldwork and anthropological research, students at the Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik (Munich) have come up with the Working Group on Fieldwork (ArbeitsKreis Feldforschung). Since its creation in October 2002, the AKFeldforschung holds regular sessions dealing with fieldwork techniques, planning, analysis, introspection, etc.. For those participating it leaves plenty room for debating and discussing ‘field issues’ – with students having gained none or first fieldwork experiences. As well, doctoral candidates and some of the Institute’s staff members regularly attend the AK meetings and contribute to it as ‘fieldwork experts’.

Look up this semester’s appealing Programme (application/msword, 28 KB) and join!

The AKFeldforschung usually meets at the Institute on Thursdays at 15 o’clock. Contact us at AKFeldforschung@web.de

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Dept. of localica, zephyrin, April 8, 2003 at 12:39:29 PM CEST

Legong -- dance of the virgins

On Friday, April the 16. the movie "Legong -- dance of the virgins" from 1935 is shown at the film-museum in Munich. The film (2-colour technicolor), directed by Henri de la Falaise, is about a beautiful but quite jealous balinese temple-dancer who falls in love with a gamelan-musician. But alas, the musician is in love with her sister ... Along with Vicki Baum's 1937 novel "Tale of Bali", "Legong" is another gem of an early artistic/ethnographic view on Balinese society. In contrast to Baum's novel, the film is hardly known and seldomly seen. The film-museum shows it during a Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-retrospective. During the retrospective other early films of the south-seas will be shown, too: "Bali -- Insel der Dämonen" (1931/33, directed by Murnau, ethnological adviser: Viktor von Plessen and the painter Walter Spies of balinese fame); "Tabu" (1929/31, directed by Murnau). You can download the program-table and the retrospective-leaflet as .pdf-files. "Legong" starts at 21:00h, admission is free.

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Dept. of localica, kerleone, February 10, 2003 at 1:40:30 PM CET

Pesta, pesta!

Happy Birthday and best wishes to a member of our institute!

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Dept. of localica, kerlone, January 24, 2003 at 10:14:38 AM CET

Visit this page under ethnolog.de

This is great relief for the scientific community: As all of us just have their brains overloaded with the most important things of the world, like the exact measurements of all the arrows used in a small village in the brazilian rain forest around 1956, you have now the great chance of sorting out something. Forget about our URL "sonner.antville.org"! From now on you can easily use "ethnolog.de". Got it?

New adress of Ethno::log: ethnolog.de.

Of course you can still visit us under sonner.antville.org". This could also be more useful, as you will always see the correct URL of a story in your browser. If you visit the page via "ethnolog.de", the adresses line in your browser is always overwritten with "ethnolog.de".

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