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2021-2027
<\/strong>Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia<\/em> (CEDITRAA)<\/a>, research group (with Vinzenz Hediger and Cornelia Storz, GU Frankfurt); funding: BMBF<\/td><\/tr>
2021-2025
<\/strong>Coloristic human differentiation. <\/a><\/em>Subproject A01 of the CRC 1482 Human Differentiation; Funding: DFG. <\/td><\/tr>
2021-2025
<\/strong>Subproject Public Relations<\/em> <\/a>of the CRC 1482 Human Differentiation (with Tobias Boll and Sascha Dickel). Funding: DFG. <\/td><\/tr>
2021-2024
<\/strong>Kinoerz\u00e4hlen in Ostafrika. Eine intermediale Praxis an der Schnittstelle von Film und m\u00fcndlicher Erz\u00e4hlung <\/em>. <\/a>Research project (with Claudia B\u00f6hme and Solomon Waliaula); funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation<\/td><\/tr>
2017-2022
<\/strong>Dschihadismus im Internet. Zur Gestaltung, Rezeption und Aneignung <\/em> radikalislamistischer Online-Propaganda<\/em>.<\/a> <\/em>(with Christoph G\u00fcnther and team); Funding: BMBF.<\/td><\/tr>
2013-2019<\/strong>
Un\/Doing Albinismus. Rekodierungen einer verk\u00f6rperten Differenz in <\/em> historisch variablen Rahmungen<\/em>. <\/a>Sub-project of the Research Group 1939 “Un\/doing Differences. Practices of Human Differentiation”. Funding: DFG. <\/td><\/tr>
2009-2011
<\/strong>Die Aushandlung von Kultur durch Video-Spielfilme und Bongo Flava-Musik<\/em> in Tansania<\/em>. <\/a>Finanzierung: DFG.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

Marion Grimberg<\/a>: “Melanin matters: Skin tone and categorial belonging in Lagos, Nigeria, and beyond”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Hoh<\/a>l: “The other white body in past and present: Shifting representations of albinism, 1520\u20132020”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Bessong Obi: “Intellectual Property Rights and Stand-up Comedy in Nigeria: Practices of Joke Ownership on and off stage”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lena Scheibinger<\/a>: “Gesammelte Beziehungen. Transkulturelle R\u00fcckbindung eines (post-)kolonialen Sammlungs- und Archivbestands aus dem kongolesischen Regenwald”<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings
Room 00-678
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-3926800
E-Mail: krings(at)uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthias Krings is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. His research focuses on African popular culture, media and religious anthropology, visual anthropology, film and video in Africa, race and disability studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is currently interested in practices of racialisation in Europe and Africa and is leading a research project on different forms of light-skinnedness in Nigeria and the Nigerian diaspora (as part of CRC 1482 'Human Differentiation'). With colleagues from Mainz and Frankfurt, he is investigating the significance of digitalisation for cultural production and cultural entrepreneurship in Nigeria and South Korea (CEDITRAA - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia). With colleagues from the University of Trier and Maasai Mara University in Kenya, he is researching film deejaying in East Africa as a practice of intermedial translation. He has extensive field research experience in Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Publications at a glance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Books<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2015 African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/td><\/tr>
2004. Siedler am Tschadsee. Hausa-Migranten und die Aneignung lokaler Ressourcen im l\u00e4ndlichen Nigeria <\/em> (Studien zur Kulturkunde 123), K\u00f6ln: K\u00f6ppe. <\/td><\/tr>
1997. Geister des Feuers. Zur Imagination des Fremden im <\/em>Bori-Kult der Hausa<\/em> (Mainzer Beitr\u00e4ge zur Afrikaforschung 4). M\u00fcnster: Lit. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Edited volumes and special issues<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2025. Dis\/Ordering Distribution: Infrastructures, Formats and Practices in the Circulation of Culture<\/em>, edited by Cornelia Storz, Vinzenz Hediger and Matthias Krings. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 94. Leeds: Emerald <\/td><\/tr>
2025. Remix and Revision. Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture <\/em>edited by Matthias Krings and Izuu Nwankwo, Journal of African Cultural Studies<\/em> 37.1 (Special Issue)<\/td><\/tr>
2024. Distributed Productivities: Digital Transcreation and the New World Order of Cultural Production<\/em>, edited by Vinzenz Hediger, Matthias Krings, Bertram Lang & Cornelia Storz. L\u00fcneburg: Meson Press (in print) <\/td><\/tr>
2019. An Anthropology of Defrauding and Faking<\/em>, edited by Jan Beek, Cassis Kilian and Matthias Krings, Social Anthropology<\/em> 27,3 (Special section)<\/td><\/tr>
2014. Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar es Salaam<\/em>, edited by Matthias Krings and Uta Reuster-Jahn (Mainzer Beitr\u00e4ge zur Afrikaforschung 34). K\u00f6ln: K\u00f6ppe.<\/td><\/tr>
2013. Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert<\/em>, edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Matthias Krings and Carola Lentz. Berlin: Reimer. <\/td><\/tr>
2013 Global Nollywood: The <\/em>Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry<\/em>, edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/td><\/tr>
2013. Medien - Erz\u00e4hlen - Gesellschaft. Transmediales Erz\u00e4hlen im Zeitalter der Medienkonvergenz <\/em>edited by Karl N. Renner, Matthias Krings and Dagmar v. Hoff (Medienkonvergenz 2). Berlin: DeGruyter. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Living with the Lake: Perspectives on History, Culture and Economy of Lake Chad<\/em>, edited by Matthias Krings and Editha Platte (Studien zur Kulturkunde 121). K\u00f6ln: K\u00f6ppe. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Films<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2002. Lake Chad - Mother of the Waters: Four Entrepreneurs, two Villages, and a Lake in Africa. <\/em>Germany\/Nigeria, 44 min, G\u00f6ttingen: IWF Knowledge and Media (with Holger Kirscht; also in German) <\/td><\/tr>
1998. Preislied f\u00fcr Mercedes<\/em>, Deutschland\/Nigeria, 8 Min., Frankfurt\/Main: Institut f\u00fcr Historische Ethnologie (with Holger Kirscht) <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2025. Playing with Difference: Oyibo Lip-Sync Performances of Nigerian Popular Culture on TikTok. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies<\/em> 37.1: 68-85 (with Izuu Nwankwo). <\/td><\/tr>
2024. Kinoerz\u00e4hlen und digitaler Wandel in Ostafrika. Transformationen einer intermedialen Erz\u00e4hlgattung, in: Communicatio Socialis<\/em> 57.1: 28-38, DOI: 10.5771\/0010-3497-2024-1-28. <\/td><\/tr>
2024. Rassifizierende Humandifferenzierung. Ein Pl\u00e4doyer f\u00fcr spezifizierende Vergleiche statt ethno-zentrischer Subsumtion, in: Berliner Journal f\u00fcr Soziologie 34: 275-285 <\/em>(with Stefan Hirschauer). <\/td><\/tr>
2019. Mapping out an anthropology of defrauding and faking, in: Social Anthropology<\/em> 27,3: 425-437 (with Jan Beek and Cassis Kilian).<\/td><\/tr>
2018. Identit\u00e4tspolitik, allenthalben (Replik zur Mainzer Logo-Debatte), in: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Kulturwissenschaften<\/em> 2\/2018: 192-195.<\/td><\/tr>
2017. Ein Model mit \u2018Makel\u2019. Shaun Ross und die Produktion besonderer Ber\u00fchmtheit in der Modewelt, in: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Medienwissenschaft<\/em> 16: 37\u201348. <\/td><\/tr>
2016. World anthropology with an accent: the discipline in Germany since the 1970s, in: American Anthropologist<\/em> 118, 364-375 (with Thomas Bierschenk and Carola Lentz).<\/td><\/tr>
2012. Turning Rice into pilau<\/em>: The Art of Video Narration in Tanzania, in: Interm\u00e9dialit\u00e9s <\/em>20 http:\/\/www.erudit.org\/revue\/im\/2012\/v\/n20\/1015086ar.html?vue=resume&mode=restriction<\/td><\/tr>
2010. A Prequel to Nollywood: South African Photo Novels and Their Pan-African Consumption in the Late 1960s, in: Journal of African Cultural Studies<\/em> 22,1: 75-89.<\/td><\/tr>
2009. Marke \u201eOsama\u201c. \u00dcber Kommunikation und Kommerz mit Bin-Laden-Bildern in Nigeria, in: Peripherie<\/em> 113: 31-55. <\/td><\/tr>
2008. Conversion on Screen: A Glimpse at Popular Islamic Imaginations in Northern Nigeria, in: Africa Today<\/em> 54,4: 44-68.<\/td><\/tr>
2005. Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires: Popular Video Films and the Propagation of Religion in Northern Nigeria, in: Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds <\/em>1,2-3: 183-205 (Special edition by Birgit Meyer & Stephen Hughes). <\/td><\/tr>
2005. Verf\u00fchrung oder Bekehrung? Zensur und Islam in nordnigerianischen Videodiskursen, in: Sociologus<\/em> 55,1: 61-88. <\/td><\/tr>
2003. Diaspora. Historische Erfahrung oder wissenschaftliches Konzept? Zur Konjunktur eines Begriffs in den Sozialwissenschaften, in: Paideuma<\/em> 49: 137-156. <\/td><\/tr>
2001. Stimmen aus der Wildnis. Julius E. Lips: The Savage Hits Back or the White Man through Native Eyes. London 1937, in: Paideuma<\/em> 47: 223-235. <\/td><\/tr>
2000 . Neuland am Tschadsee. Dauerhafte Nutzungspotentiale?, in: Geographische Rundschau<\/em> 52,11: 28-34 (with I. Francke Scharf, E. Platte, H. Thiemeyer).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Chapters in edited volumes<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2025. Dis\/Ordering distribution: a short introduction, in: Dis.Ordering Distribution: Infrastructures, Formats and Practices in the Circulation of Culture<\/em>, edited by Cornelia Storz, Vinzenz Hediger and Matthias Krings, Research in the Sociology of Institutions<\/em> 94: 1-8. (with Cornelia Storz and Vinzenz Hediger).<\/td><\/tr>
2025. Andersh\u00e4utigkeit. Koloristische Humandifferenzierung im Vergleich. In: Anne Friedrichs, Stefan Hirschauer, Peter Hofmann, Gabriele Schabacher (eds.): Humandifferenzierung im Vergleich<\/em>. Weilerswist: Velbr\u00fcck: 149-180. <\/td><\/tr>
2024. Korean film and popular arts in Kenya: the oral remaking of FABRICATED CITY by DJ Afro, in: Distributed Productivities: Digital Transcreation and the New World Order of Cultural Production<\/em>, ed. By Vinzenz Hediger, Matthias Krings, Bertram Lang and Cornelia Storz. L\u00fcneburg: Meson Press (with Solomon Waliaula, in print). <\/td><\/tr>
2021. Foreword, in: Izuu Nwankwo: Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy<\/em>. Makhanda: NISC: ix-xii. <\/td><\/tr>
2021. Grenzverwischung. Kategoriale Transgressionen der Schwarz\/Wei\u00df- und der Alt\/Jung-Unterscheidung im Vergleich. In: Dilek Dizdar, Stefan Hirschauer, Johannes Paulmann & Gabriele Schabacher (eds.): Humandifferenzierung. Disziplin\u00e4re Perspektiven und empirische Sondierungen <\/em>. Weilerswist: Velbr\u00fcck, 201-229 (with Mita Banerjee)<\/td><\/tr>
2020. African Popular Culture Enters the Global Mainstream, Current History<\/em> 119: 182-187 (with Tom Simmert).<\/td><\/tr>
2020. Fraktale Portr\u00e4ts. Instagram und die Charismatisierung albinotischer Models, in: Thierry Greub (ed.): Revisionen des Portr\u00e4ts: Jenseits von Mimesis und Repr\u00e4sentation<\/em>. Paderborn: Fink: 149-170. <\/td><\/tr>
2019. Extraordinarily White: The De\/Spectacularization of the Albinotic Body and the Normalization of Its Audience, in: Claudia Liebelt, Sarah B\u00f6llinger, and Ulf Vierke (eds.): Beauty and the Norm. Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance <\/em>. Basingstoke and Cham: Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature: 75-103 (with Christopher Hohl).<\/td><\/tr>
2019. 'Disability Gain' and the Limits of Representing Alternative Beauty, in: Claudia Liebelt, Sarah B\u00f6llinger, and Ulf Vierke (eds.): Beauty and the Norm. Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance <\/em>. Basingstoke and Cham: Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature: 104-125 (with Ann Fox and Ulf Vierke). <\/td><\/tr>
2017. Scambaiting: Cyber Vigilantism between Interactive Fiction and Racist Blood Sport. In: Sa'idu B. Ahmad and Nura Ibrahim (eds.): Items, Knowledge Transfer and African Identity. A Festschrift in Honor of Abdalla Uba Adamu <\/em>. Kano: Bayero University Press, 1-30.<\/td><\/tr>
2017. Albinismus. Rekodierungen einer Humankategorie in historisch variablen Rahmungen, in: Stefan Hirschauer (ed.). Un\/Doping Differences: Praktiken der Humandifferenzierung<\/em>. Weilerswist: Velbr\u00fcck: 358-390. <\/td><\/tr>
2015. Jenseits der Mattscheibe. Als teilnehmender Beobachter in der nigerianischen Videofilmindustrie, in: Cora Bender & Martin Zillinger (eds.): Handbuch der Medienethnographie<\/em>. Berlin: Reimer: 93-110. <\/td><\/tr>
2014. Kinoerz\u00e4hlen in Afrika. Skizze eines Forschungsfeldes, in: Hannelore V\u00f6gele, Lutz Diegner, Raimund Kastenholz, & Uta Reuster-Jahn (eds.): From the Tana River to Lake Chad: Research in African Oratures and Literatures. <\/em>In Memoriam Thomas Geider<\/em>. Cologne: K\u00f6ppe: 87-104. <\/td><\/tr>
2014. Bongo Media Worlds: An Introduction, in: Matthias Krings & Uta Reuster-Jahn (eds.): Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar es Salaam<\/em>. Cologne: K\u00f6ppe: 9-23 (with Uta Reuster-Jahn). <\/td><\/tr>
2013. Was ist ethno an der deutschsprachigen Ethnologie der Gegenwart?, in: Thomas Bierschenk, Matthias Krings and Carola Lentz (eds.): Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert<\/em>. Berlin: Reimer: 7-34 (with Thomas Bierschenk u. Carola Lentz). <\/td><\/tr>
2013. Interdisziplinarit\u00e4t und die Signatur der Ethnologie, in: Thomas Bierschenk, Matthias Krings & Carola Lentz (eds.): Ethnologie im 21. <\/em>Jahrhundert<\/em>. Berlin: Reimer: 265-284. <\/td><\/tr>
2013. Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction, in: Matthias Krings & Onookome Okome (eds.): Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 1-24 (with Onookome Okome). <\/td><\/tr>
2013. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator, in: Matthias Krings & Onookome Okome (eds.): Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 306-326. <\/td><\/tr>
2013. Scambaiting. Ein Erz\u00e4hlgenre zwischen interaktiver Fiktion und Hetzjagd im Internet, in: Karl N. Renner, Dagmar v. Hoff & Matthias Krings (eds.): Medien - Erz\u00e4hlen - Gesellschaft. <\/em>Transmediales Erz\u00e4hlen im Zeitalter der Medienkonvergenz<\/em>. Berlin: DeGruyter: 215-240. <\/td><\/tr>
2012. With Spear in the City: The Adventure of Modernity in the Photo Novels of the 1960s, in: Kerstin Pinther, Larissa F\u00f6rster & Christian Hanussek (eds.): Afropolis: City, Media, Art<\/em>. Johannesburg: Jacana Media: 158-164 (Translation of the German article from 2010). <\/td><\/tr>
2012. Meet Lance Spearman - Your Favorite Crime-Buster, in: Anja Oed & Christine Matzke (eds.): Life is a Thriller: Investigating African Crime Fiction<\/em>. Cologne: K\u00f6ppe: 35-49. <\/td><\/tr>
2011. Nigerianische Emails, ethnologische Lekt\u00fcren, in: Nikolaus Schareika, Eva Spies & Pierre\u2010Yves Le Meur (eds.): Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift f\u00fcr Thomas Bierschenk <\/em>. K\u00f6ln: K\u00f6ppe: 91-108. <\/td><\/tr>
2010. Mit Speer in der Stadt. Abenteuerliche Moderne im Fotoroman der 1960er Jahre, in: Kerstin Pinther, Larissa F\u00f6rster & Christian Hanussek (eds.): Afropolis. <\/em>Stadt, Medien, Kunst<\/em>. K\u00f6ln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther K\u00f6nig: 158-165. <\/td><\/tr>
2010. Nollywood Goes East: The Localization of Nigerian Video Films in Tanzania, in: Mahir Saul & Ralph A. Austen (eds.): Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution<\/em>. Athens OH: Ohio University Press: 74-91. <\/td><\/tr>
2009. Black Titanic: African-American and African Appropriations of the White Star Liner, in: Carmen Birkle & Nicole Waller (eds.): \"The Sea is History\": Exploring the Atlantic<\/em>. Heidelberg: Universit\u00e4tsverlag Winter: 25-43. <\/td><\/tr>
2009. Die Glieder der Gesellschaft. Bruchst\u00fccke ritueller Obsz\u00f6nit\u00e4t aus dem Hausaland, in: Volker Gottowik, Holger Jebens and Editha Platte (eds.): Zwischen Aneignung und Verfremdung. Ethnologische Gratwanderungen <\/em> (Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Kohl). Frankfurt and New York: Campus: 453-469. <\/td><\/tr>
2007. African Video Vampires - Wiederg\u00e4nger zwischen den Kulturen, in: Silke Seybold (ed.): All about Evil. Das B\u00f6se <\/em>. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern: 120-127.<\/td><\/tr>
2005. Bollywood\/Kallywood. Mediale Transfers und popul\u00e4re Videos in Nigeria, in: Gereon Blaseio, Hedwig Pompe & Jens Ruchatz (eds.): Popularisierung und Popularit\u00e4t<\/em> (Mediologie Vol. 13), Cologne: Dumont: 303-317. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Osama Bin Laden vs. George W. Bush in Nigeria. Zur lokalen Transkription globaler Ereignisse, in: Cornelia Epping-J\u00e4ger, Torsten Hahn & Erhard Sch\u00fcttpelz (eds.): Freund, Feind & Verrat. Das politische Feld der Medien <\/em> (Mediologie Vol. 12), K\u00f6ln: Dumont: 252-267. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Der Boom eines Mediums. Einblicke in die Werkst\u00e4tten nigerianischer Plakatverleger, in: Dieter Kramer & Wendelin Schmidt (eds.): Plakate in Afrika<\/em> (Begleitpublikation zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung des Museums der Weltkulturen), Frankfurt\/Main: Museum der Weltkulturen: 43-50. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. From Possession Rituals to Video Dramas: Some Observations of Dramatis Personae in Hausa Performing Arts, in: Abdalla Uba Adamu, Yusuf Adamu & Umar Faruk Jibrin (eds.): Hausa Home Videos: Technology, Economy, and Society<\/em>, Kano: Center for Hausa Cultural Studies: 162-170. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Nigerianische Moritaten. Die Reproduktion des B\u00f6sen auf illustrierten Kalenderbl\u00e4ttern, in: Tobias Wendl (ed.): Africa Screams. Das B\u00f6se in Kino, Kunst und Kult <\/em>Wuppertal: Peter Hammer: 174-187. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Farming the Frontier: Hausa Migrants and the Politics of Belonging on the Former Lake Floor of Lake Chad (Nigeria), in: Matthias Krings & Editha Platte (eds.): Living with the Lake: Perspectives on History, Culture and Economy of Lake Chad<\/em>, Cologne: K\u00f6ppe: 268-290. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Fishing for Naira: Some Social Trends in Lake Chad Fishery. An Overview, in: Matthias Krings & Editha Platte (eds.): Living with the Lake: Perspectives on History, Culture and Economy of Lake Chad<\/em>, Cologne: K\u00f6ppe: 204-226. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Living with the Lake. An Introduction, in: Matthias Krings & Editha Platte (eds.): Living with the Lake. Perspectives on History, Culture and Economy of Lake Chad <\/em>Cologne: K\u00f6ppe: 11-40 (with Editha Platte). <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Der Tschadsee: Seespiegelschwankungen und wechselnde Nutzungspotenziale, in: Klaus-Dieter Albert, Doris L\u00f6hr & Katharina Neumann (eds.): Mensch und Natur in Westafrika<\/em>, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH: 196-220 (with I. Francke-Scharf, H. Kirscht, E. Platte and H. Thiemeyer). <\/td><\/tr>
2002. Institutional Evolution at Lake Chad: Lessons for Fisheries Management, in: Kim Geheb & Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Sarch (eds.): Africa's Inland Fisheries. The Management Challenge <\/em>Kampala: Fountain Publishers: 211-227 (with Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Sarch). <\/td><\/tr>
2002. Neusiedler am Tschadsee, in: Andrea Reikat (ed.): Leben in Westafrika<\/em> (Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung des SFB 268), Frankfurt: Plexus Verlag: 112-123. <\/td><\/tr>
2001. Small Fish, Big Money: Conflicts Evolving around New Fishing Techniques and Old Fishing Rights at the Shores of Lake Chad\/Nigeria, in: Collaborative Research Center 268 (ed.): Proceedings. <\/em>International Symposium 27-29.5.1999, Frankfurt\/Main<\/em>. Frankfurt\/Main: SFB 268 at the University of Frankfurt: 93-104. <\/td><\/tr>
2001. The Savage Hits Back or the White Man Through Native Eyes. By Julius E. Lips, in: Christian Feest & Karl-Heinz Kohl (eds.): Hauptwerke der Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, Stuttgart: Kr\u00f6ner: 263-268. <\/td><\/tr>
1999. On History and Language of the 'European' Bori Spirits of Kano\/Nigeria, in: Heike Behrend & Ute Luig (eds.): Spirit Possession: Modernity and Power in Africa<\/em>. Oxford: James Currey: 53-67. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Newsletter articles, blog posts, working papers<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2019. Kinoerz\u00e4hler in Ostafrika. www.kinofenster.de, Filmportal der Bundeszentrale f\u00fcr politische Bildung, April 2019. https:\/\/www.kinofenster.de\/filme\/aktueller-film-des-monats\/kf1904-supa-modo-hg2-kinoerzaehlen\/<\/td><\/tr>
2017. Ethnologie und \u00d6ffentlichkeit: Oder die Kunst, zwischen den St\u00fchlen zu sitzen. Kulturrelativismus und Aufkl\u00e4rung<\/em>(Blog), 21. February 2017 (http:\/\/gssc.uni-koeln.de\/sites\/gssc\/Blog\/Kulturrelativismus_und_Aufklaerung. pdf). <\/td><\/tr>
2015. Anthropology in the twenty-first century: a view of, and from, Germany. Working papers of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz <\/em>160 (with Thomas Bierschenk and Carola Lentz). <\/td><\/tr>
2015. 100 Jahre Leipziger Institut f\u00fcr Ethnologie. Bericht \u00fcber die Jubil\u00e4umsveranstaltung nebst Reminiszenzen an Leipziger Episoden in der DGV-Geschichte, in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde e.V.<\/em>, No. 46, January 2015: 50-53. <\/td><\/tr>
2013. Am virtuellen Pranger. Scambaiting als rassistische Form der Kriminalit\u00e4tsbek\u00e4mpfung im Internet, in: iz3w<\/em>, Ausgabe 336, May\/June 2013: 19-21. <\/td><\/tr>
2010. Mediale Basteleien - wie in Afrika fremde Bilder in eigene verwandelt werden, in: Natur & Geist. Forschungsmagazin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz <\/em> 1\/2010: 57-60. <\/td><\/tr>
2004. Osama Bin Laden vs. George W. Bush in Nigeria. Zur lokalen Transkription globaler Ereignisse, in: Transkriptionen<\/em> 3 (Newsletter des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskollegs \"Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation\" SFB\/FK 427): 8-11. <\/td><\/tr>
2003. From Possession Rituals to Video Dramas: Some Remarks on Stock Characters in Hausa Performing Arts, in: Borno Museum Society Newsletter<\/em> 54\/55: 45-52. <\/td><\/tr>
1998. Migrant Hausa Communities in the Lake: Preliminary Research Grades from Lake Chad, in: Borno Museum Society Newsletter<\/em> 34\/35: 31-41. <\/td><\/tr>
1997. Feuer, Alkohol und Zigaretten. Die Europ\u00e4ergeister im <\/em>bori-Kult der Hausa<\/em> (Working Papers on African Societies 9), Berlin: Das Arabische Buch. <\/td><\/tr>
1997. Embodying the Other: Reflections on the Bori Pantheon, in: Borno Museum Society Newsletter<\/em> 32\/33: 17-29. <\/td><\/tr>
1995. Fremdenbilder und Besessenheit. Zu den Europ\u00e4er-Geistern im Bori-Kult der Hausa, in: Cargo. Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Ethnologie <\/em> 20: 11-14. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Reviews<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2006. Einmal zum Filmfestival nach Ouagadougou. Warum afrikanisches Kino \u00e4hnlich, aber doch anders ist. (Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Gutberlet: Auf Reisen. Afrikanisches Kino), in: Forschung Frankfurt<\/em> 2-3\/2006: 84-85. <\/td><\/tr>
2005. Rose Marie Beck & Frank Wittmann (eds.): African Media Cultures - Transdisciplinary Perspectives, in: MedienWissenschaft <\/em>1\/2005: 42-44. <\/td><\/tr>
2003. Walter K\u00fchme: Das K\u00f6nigtum von Gobir. G\u00f6tter, Priester, Feste einer sakralen Gesellschaft, in: Afrika und \u00dcbersee<\/em> 86, 289-293. <\/td><\/tr>
1995. Georg Klute: Die schwerste Arbeit der Welt. Alltag von Tuareg-Nomaden, in: Anthropos<\/em> 90: 279-280. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2021-2027
<\/strong>Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia<\/em> (CEDITRAA)<\/a>, research group (with Vinzenz Hediger and Cornelia Storz, GU Frankfurt); funding: BMBF<\/td><\/tr>
2021-2025
<\/strong>Coloristic human differentiation. <\/a><\/em>Subproject A01 of the CRC 1482 Human Differentiation; Funding: DFG. <\/td><\/tr>
2021-2025
<\/strong>Subproject Public Relations<\/em> <\/a>of the CRC 1482 Human Differentiation (with Tobias Boll and Sascha Dickel). Funding: DFG. <\/td><\/tr>
2021-2024
<\/strong>Kinoerz\u00e4hlen in Ostafrika. Eine intermediale Praxis an der Schnittstelle von Film und m\u00fcndlicher Erz\u00e4hlung <\/em>. <\/a>Research project (with Claudia B\u00f6hme and Solomon Waliaula); funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation<\/td><\/tr>
2017-2022
<\/strong>Dschihadismus im Internet. Zur Gestaltung, Rezeption und Aneignung <\/em> radikalislamistischer Online-Propaganda<\/em>.<\/a> <\/em>(with Christoph G\u00fcnther and team); Funding: BMBF.<\/td><\/tr>
2013-2019<\/strong>
Un\/Doing Albinismus. Rekodierungen einer verk\u00f6rperten Differenz in <\/em> historisch variablen Rahmungen<\/em>. <\/a>Sub-project of the Research Group 1939 \"Un\/doing Differences. Practices of Human Differentiation\". Funding: DFG. <\/td><\/tr>
2009-2011
<\/strong>Die Aushandlung von Kultur durch Video-Spielfilme und Bongo Flava-Musik<\/em> in Tansania<\/em>. <\/a>Finanzierung: DFG.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Marion Grimberg<\/a>: \"Melanin matters: Skin tone and categorial belonging in Lagos, Nigeria, and beyond\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Hoh<\/a>l: \"The other white body in past and present: Shifting representations of albinism, 1520\u20132020\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Bessong Obi: \"Intellectual Property Rights and Stand-up Comedy in Nigeria: Practices of Joke Ownership on and off stage\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lena Scheibinger<\/a>: \"Gesammelte Beziehungen. Transkulturelle R\u00fcckbindung eines (post-)kolonialen Sammlungs- und Archivbestands aus dem kongolesischen Regenwald\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings
Room 00-678
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-3926800
E-Mail: krings(at)uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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