Anthropology and African Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Room 00-651
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel: +49 6131 39-26800
Fax: +49 6131 39-23730
E-Mail: krings@uni-mainz.de
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Research Interests
Popular Culture in Africa, Media Ethnology, Migration and Diaspora Research, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of the Body, West Africa (Nigeria), East Africa (Tanzania)
Academic Background
Matthias Krings has been Professor of Anthropology and Popular Culture of Africa since 2011. He was Junior Professor at JGU Mainz from 2005 to 2011. He has also been a research associate at Cologne University (2003-2005) and Frankfurt University (1996-2002). He received his PhD from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and his Master’s Degree in Ethnology from JGU Mainz in 1998.
Publications (Top 5)
- 2015
- African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 2013
- (with Onookome Okome, eds.:) Global Nollywood. The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 2013
- (with Thomas Bierschenk and Carola Lentz, eds.:) Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Reimer.
- 2009
- Marke „Osama“. Über Kommunikation und Kommerz mit Bin-Laden-Bildern in Nigeria. In: Peripherie 113/29. P. 31–55.
- 2008
- Conversion on Screen. A Glimpse at Popular Islamic Imaginations in Northern Nigeria. In: Africa Today 54/4. P. 44–68.