New Publication: “Chemisch-Werden” / “Becoming chemical”
Read full article here (in German) Schnepf, M. 2022. Chemisch-Werden: Verkörperte Momente urbaner Zugehörigkeit in Berlin. sub\urban: zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 10 (2/3): 17-42….
Read full article here (in German) Schnepf, M. 2022. Chemisch-Werden: Verkörperte Momente urbaner Zugehörigkeit in Berlin. sub\urban: zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 10 (2/3): 17-42….
To camp is a mode of seduction – one which employs flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti…
How is race done in the transnational circulation of hair for the production of wigs, extensions, and toupees? Or to put it differently: what happens to race in…
Partial truths: Blogging as research method – What do our methods actually do if they cannot depict reality as it is? This is not a new question in…
Let’s start with an anthropological classic: Geertz’s thick description of the Balinese cock fight which sometimes reads like a dick description[1] (“uninventive obscenities” anticipated by Geertz 197…
To Dande who was not given the chance to wear her afro after chemotherapy. I’m sitting in a cafe in Amsterdam on a Sunday afternoon. Slightly hung…
Für Dande, der nicht die Möglichkeit gegeben war, ihren Afro nach der Chemo zu tragen. An einem Sonntagnachmittag sitze ich in einem Café in Amsterdam. Leicht verkatert…
I was standing in front of one of the work stations at Mastercut, the hairdressing salon I did my ethnographic fieldwork at. Two or three weeks in the…
Mavi, the apprentice at Mastercut, had told me about her side business in hair extensions long ago, but we had never managed to schedule an appointment which I…
Übersetzung von Elena Radwan – An diesem Mittwochmittag, nachdem Cedric* mir die Haare geschnitten hatte, verbrachte ich einige Zeit in der Küche von Mastercut, als ich bemerkte, dass…
This day, a Wednesday noon after Cedric* had cut my hair, I spend some time in the kitchen of the salon, when I realized that Reiner was in…
The gender of an object – For a seminar session on “gendered objects”, my colleague and I asked the participants to bring to class an object that they…
Despite storm Xavier complicating the journey to Freie Universität in Berlin’s south, anthropologists working in Germany and beyond came together for the biannual conference of the German Anthropologi…
How did I happen to study hairdressing and what is it that interests me about the hairdressing salon? Let me answer the first part of the question very…