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Drawing on the example of a research project on the extension of the margins of the global agricultural market through the workings of agribusiness in Ghana, this paper explores what contribution ethnographic approaches can make to the study of quotidian market constructions in organizational settings. It demonstrates how ethnographies of marketization can be grasped conceptually, epistemologically and methodologically, as well as what practical and methodological challenges such a practice-oriented approach towards the everyday organization of markets might encounter. By doing so, the paper offers a methodological contribution to the interdisciplinary field of marketization studies. Moreover, this paper urges economic geographers to further harness the epistemological potential of ethnographic approaches.
Dass gerade das 16. und 17. Jahrhundert in der abendländischen Trinkkultur eine Zeit außerordentlich hohen Alkoholkonsums waren, ist hinlänglich bekannt. Die Berichte über große, oft tagelange Trinkgelage sind Legion und die „Tischzuchten“ des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts wissen vom Zutrinken, vom Bescheid Geben, vom Weiterreichen des Bechers detaillierte Einzelheiten der Trinksitten zu berichten. Das Trinken mit einer Hand galt lange noch als verpönt, aber die Regularien waren oft recht kompliziert – Festgelage waren vom Willkommensgruß über die zahlreichen auszusprechenden Toasts an adeligen Tafeln ebenso wie in Zunftstuben häufig strengen Normen unterworfen, während die ländliche Kirmes ebenfalls den exzessiven Alkoholgenuss, aber weniger strenge Regeln kannte. Auch häusliche Feste und Wirtshausbesuche endeten nicht selten im Vollrausch der Beteiligten. Und der Verlauf derartiger Szenarien nahm bei dem hohen Alkoholkonsum oft bizarre Formen an – das Trinken bis
zur Trunkenheit, ja Bewusstlosigkeit war in allen sozialen Schichten und auch bei beiden Geschlechtern zu finden. Doch die Stimmen zur Mäßigung waren nicht erst seit Erasmus von
Rotterdam und mit den Reformatoren immer lauter geworden. Der Siegeszug der großen Ernüchterer Kaffee, Tee und Schokolade, der die Trinkkultur revolutionieren sollte, hatte aber erst zaghaft begonnen. Dass im 17. Jahrhundert, einer Zeit des noch immer sehr hohen Alkoholkonsums, eine so elegante und hohe Konzentration erfordernde Handgeste wie die hier in Frage stehende verbreitet gewesen sein soll, überrascht denn doch und ist einer näheren Betrachtung wert. Da nur dieser spezielle Aspekt interessiert, werden keine ausführlichen Bildbeschreibungen und Gesamtinterpretationen geboten. Die Erforschung der Gesten und Gebärden und der Körpersprache in der Frühen Neuzeit hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten große Fortschritte gemacht. War schon mit Norbert Elias der Übergang vom „unordentlichen Leib“ zum zivilisierten und disziplinierten „geordneten Körper“ in zahlreichen Einzelheiten zu beobachten und mit Mary Douglas der Körper und die Körpersprache als Symbol für soziale Beziehungen zu interpretieren, so ist das Feld der nonverbalen Kommunikation inzwischen reich bestellt.
The aim of this article is to show the difference between an interpretative-hermeneutic ethnographic approach deeply embedded in the history of anthropology and ethnographic methods introduced as part of a social science repertoire. Taking the classical "network" as an example, it contrasts the way this concept is generally used in studies on translocal mobility with interpretations of ethnographic research. This not only opens up critical reflections on the role of "networks" when it comes to understanding translocality as a lived experience, but also illustrates what it actually means to follow an interpretative-hermeneutic approach in which ethnographic material is seen to serve as a way to ground, question and refine abstract concepts. The article thus argues that it is through ethnographies and their inherent openness towards the field that a more enriching and creative engagement with theories and methodologies can be achieved than qualitative social science approaches usually allow for.
Menschen mit Geldbeträgen in Verbindung zu setzen, gilt heute in Deutschland als inakzeptabel, ja sogar sittenwidrig. Zwangsheiraten, bei denen auch Brautgeld fließt, werden als Menschenhandel geahndet. Bei den Brautpreisübergaben der Mossi in Burkina Faso gewinnen Geld und Güter jedoch eine symbolische Dimension. Wer von der Suppe isst, die mit dem Salz des Brautpreises gewürzt ist, erkennt das Bündnis zwischen den Brautleuten an. Die sorgfältig vorbereitete Übergabe des Preises etabliert soziale Bande zwischen den Familien und ist zugleich ein Test für den Bräutigam.
Grave visitation and concepts of life after death : a comparative study in Frankfurt and Hong Kong
(2012)
Grave visitation is a tradition common to many cultures. Yet, this sensitive topic is rarely addressed in cross cultural comparisons. Why do people visit the graves of their parents? What do they do in the cemetery? Could there be a similar set of intentions behind the diverse customs? By examining the visiting patterns in Frankfurt and Hong Kong, this research is aimed at comparing the concepts of life after death that underlie the practice. Phenomenologically oriented, this is an exploratory study based on qualitative interviews. Integrated with in-depth semi-structure interviewing and thematic analysis, the project covered twelve cases in each city. Research participants were purposefully selected. Data analysis was conducted according to the analytical framework approach. After identifying and clustering of themes, three central and interlocking issues were found: 1. the grave as a new home that connects the living and the dead; 2. death and the interpretation of hope; and 3.intergenerational reciprocity and continuing bonds. Though the images of life after death were ambiguously depicted, grave tending reflected shared expectations of the world beyond. Most significantly, visits to the graves strengthened the ties between the living and the dead, revealing a longing for a continued bond regardless of the forms of burial. At the end, this research illustrated not only the meanings of death but also the notion of religiosity through evaluating the secularisation thesis. Emphasising the dynamics of tradition and personal experience, this contextual reading of current death rituals serves as an original source for religious dialogue and education.
The present study focuses on specific aspects in the organization of teaching religion in Indonesia. It analyses the position of religion within the Indonesian Basic Law, consequential legislation, and educational policies. How does this framework translate into national and regional policies pertaining to the emergence, institutionalization, and organization of the Hindu class and the Hindu education system in Bali from 1945 to 2008?
Muslim majority Indonesia constitutes an interesting laboratory for doing fundamental research on religious plurality and transformations of religion. The model of organizing the religion class in Indonesia is rooted in a specific historical, socio-cultural, political, and legal context, which is fundamentally different to European models of religious education. In addition, in contrast to classical Islam and modern Islamic states, Indonesia recognizes Asian religions as equal in status with the religions of the book. Besides Islam and Christianity, Hindu Dharma and Buddhism were recognized as state funded religions in 1965. This recognition had important consequences for the Indonesian model of organizing five confessional religion classes and faith-based education systems.
The Balinese are a rare case of a religious and ethnic minority being simultaneously an ethnic and religious majority. Therefore, the Balinese provide an outstanding case to analyze how Indonesia’s religious and educational policies do deal with that particular ethnic and religious minority. In addition, how do the Balinese themselves use the constitutional and legal framework to establish the Hindu religion class in public schools and a private Hindu education system from the level of pre-school to higher education?
A qualitative examination was conducted basing on a combination of theoretical and empirical investigations. The province of Bali and three educational institutions were chosen, because the Balinese were the reformers of Indonesian Hindu Dharma and the inventors of the Hindu education system. As the study focuses on constitutional and legal contexts of the Hindu class and the Hindu education system, teachers’ professional education, and composition of curricula and textbooks, a qualitative approach was applied combining ethnographic fieldwork and case study research. In consequence, the subject positions the study in the academic disciplines of Religious Studies and Area Studies. Data were collected through bibliographical surveys and fieldwork.
The amended 1945 Basic Law and consequential legislation give the same right to state sanctioned religions. The state is based on “One Supreme Lordship” prescribing national monotheism or monism. Indonesia’s spirited statehood is based on a religious, but not confessional interpretation. In addition, the strategy to manage religious plurality is authoritarian, as positive freedom of religion is limited to six state-funded religions, whereas negative religious freedom is not provided for. Despite the equal status of the six state funded religions, discriminative practices prevail with regard to funding those Asian religions. Notwithstanding, the Muslim majority Pancasila state can serve a model function for countries with illiberal politics in the Muslim world.
The first objective of strategic and educational policies is to mould a citizen who has faith in God, follows the commands of God, and has morals. The dimension of spiritual intelligence in education is a particular Indonesian dimension of education, which Indonesian educational planners added to the UNESCO standards of student-centered learning throughout life. Indonesia organizes the religion class and faith-based education systems in a confessional but pluralistic style. The citizens are required to attend the religious class in the religion they adhere to instructed by a teacher of the same belief from elementary to higher education. In addition, the religious mark is a compulsory item in the school report, and whether a pupil/student stays back or is promoted to the next level depends, amongst other factors, on how the religion teacher grades the student.
Unlike the Muslim or Christian based education systems, the Hindu education system is still marginal and minuscule. Its funding is discriminative. Funding and expansion are linked to national policies, and the personal networks of Hindu agents are given the mandate to organize the Hindu administration and education system.
Although throughout the history of anthropology the ethnography of urban societies was never an important topic, investigations on cities in Africa contributed to the early theoretical development of urban studies in social sciences. As the ethnography of rural migrants in towns made clear, cultural diversity and creativity are foundational and permanent elements of urban cultures in Africa (and beyond). Currently, two new aspects complement these insights: 1) Different forms of mobility have received a new awareness through the concept of transnationalism. They are much more complex, including not only rural–urban migration, but also urban–urban migration, and migrations with a destination beyond the continent. 2) Urban life-worlds also include the appropriation of globally circulating images and lifestyles, which contribute substantially to the current cultural dynamics of cities in Africa. These two aspects are the reasons for the high complexity of urban contexts in Africa. Therefore, whether it is still appropriate to speak about the “locality” of these life-worlds has become questionable. At the same time, these new aspects explain the self-consciousness of members of urban cultures in Africa. They contribute to the expansive character of these societies and to the impression that cities in Africa host the most innovative and creative societies worldwide.
Die Kampftänze der afrikanischen Diaspora wurden unter den Umständen der Sklavenzeit und als Weiterführung afrikanischer Rituale entwickelt. Bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein wurde ihre Ausübung offiziell verboten. Die Missachtung der Öffentlichkeit über die Jahrhunderte hinweg steht im krassen Gegensatz zu der Bedeutung, die die Kampftänze für die kulturelle Identität der
Bevölkerungen afrikanischen Ursprungs haben. Heute geniessen die Kampftänze als Kampfsport besonders in den westlichen Industrieländern eine wachsende Popularität.
Der folgende Aufsatz bietet eine Übersicht über die Kampftänze Capoeira (Brasilien), Moringue (La Réunion) und Danmyé (Martinique). Aufgrund der Ähnlichkeit der drei Kampftänze wird die ethnische Verbindung historisch rekonstruiert, um den gemeinsamen Ursprung in Afrika auszumachen.
Nusa Tenggara Timor, a south-eastern province of Indonesia, is populated mainly by Christians. The Alor-Pantar Archipelago has a majority of Protestant inhabitants who were baptized by Dutch Calvinists in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition, there are some coastal enclaves that have been inhabited by Muslims for centuries. In some areas, such as in the headland of Muna (Tanjung Muna) forming the northeast of Pantar Island, there is an even greater diversity of monotheistic religions, with some Catholic families living next to Protestants and Muslims. All adherers of the three religious faiths living at Tanjung Muna share core elements of the local adat, which consists of core rules relating to social behavior. It is believed that the ancestors will notice transgressions of these rules, and may use their supernatural power to punish their human descendants. In Indonesia, the term adat was first used by Muslims to distinguish the non-Islamic practices from Muslim faith (Keane 1997:260-261). This is definitely not the case in the village of Pandai at the coast of Tanjung Muna, where Islam tolerates ancestral worship. The same is true for the Catholics in the inland village of Helangdohi, who do not only tolerate but even support such customs. Some villagers from Helangdohi had become acquainted with this kind of Catholicism on the nearby island of Flores, where ancestral worship is encouraged by the missionaries of the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD). The attitude of Protestantism, at least in the Alor Archipelago, is quite the contrary of the permissive views held by Catholicism and Islam. In the 1930s the Protestant-Calvinist missionaries banned any kind of ancestral worship and destroyed most relics (Dalen 1928: Picture 1). These drastic measures demanded the disavowal of the ancestors, including the destruction of heirlooms and omitting of rituals.
The Alor-Pantar Archipelago is still one of the most under-researched areas of Indonesia. However, in January 2009 I was able to collect data on anthropomorphic sculptures in the Tanjung Muna area of Pantar. The study used photographs of objects that had been purchased recently by European private art collectors in order to elicit responses regarding the local mythology. I was also able to interview local traders as well as the dealer who sold the sculptures, which allowed me to document information regarding their origin and former use, as well as the circumstances under which they had found their way on to the international art market. Traditional marriage rules as well as black magic played a central role. Furthermore, in the course of my research by chance I learned of a contemporary ancestor cult connected to the construction of a new clan house and of traditional (pre-Protestant) forms of healing.
Afyonkarahisar ist eine der größeren Städte im westlichen Kleinasien, die auf eine sehr alte wie auch reiche Geschichte zurückblicken kann. Schon im Altertum ist Akroinon (Ακροϊνόν), wie Afyon damals von den Griechen genannt wurde, ein reges kulturelles Zentrum. Diese Stellung hat der Ort sich bis heute bewahrt als Hauptstadt der gleichnamigen türkischen Provinz Afyonkarahisar (Afyonkarahisar İli). Gemeinhin rechnet man deren Territorium dem ägäischen Raum zu. Genau genommen erstreckt es sich jedoch über drei geographische Zonen: Der größte Teil gehört in der Tat der Ägäischen Zone (Ege Bölgesi) an. Der die Distrikte (İlçe) von Başmakçı, Dinar, Dazkırı und Evciler umfassende Südzipfel macht Teil der Mediterranen Zone (Akdeniz Bölgesi) aus während einige Landstriche im Nordosten und Osten bereits zu Inneranatolien (İçanadolu Bölgesi) gehören. ...
Descrição: Os livrinhos nesta série contêm histórias escritas em Cinyungwe com perguntas e quebra-cabeças. A série é para novos leitores de Cinyungwe. O desenho destes livrinhos facilita a reprodução de materiais para aulas de alfabetização.
Num dos artigos, relativos à história dos Ovimbundu, apresentamos três hipóteses sobre a possível origem deste grupo étnico, tendo-nos inclinado, depois de apresentarmos alguns factos, para a hipótese para nós a mais defensável segundo a qual os Ovimbundu descendem dos autores das pinturas rupestres de Caninguiri que, através de um processo de aculturação e miscigenação, foram adquirindo traços dos outros grupos bantu, chegados de paragens e latitudes longínquas. Os mitos possuem uma importância capital, porquanto a análise das narrativas permite não só resgatar elementos susceptíveis de subsidiar a análise de factos históricos (complementando as fontes escritas), como também auxiliar na identificação de elementos culturais com vista à construção da identidade de um determinado grupo étnico.
A origem dos Ovimbundu tem sido motivo de estudos apaixonados por parte de vários historiadores. Uma das razões tem a ver com o facto de se tratar de um grupo étnico que marcou (e continua a marcar), de modo profundo, a história económica, social, política e cultural da porção de território que hoje se chama Angola.
A abordagem conceptual da categoria etnia, e as acções práticas dela derivadas, encontram-se, em Angola, profundamente matizadas pelo paradigma colonial. Sabe-se que em Angola os vários grupos étnicos, tal como aconteceu noutras paragens, foram agrupados em função de critérios linguísticos o que, durante o regime colonial, permitiu utilizar tal facto para um maior domínio e exploração dos mesmos.
Nas ciências sociais e humanas, e sobretudo em áreas como a Antropologia, já que, na sua maior parte são fruto de pesquisas qualitativas assentes em processos heurísticos derivados das informação obtidas através key informant, de pesquisas de campo, ou mesmas das narrativas vivenciais, recomenda-se toda a prudência e pouca pressa para se tirarem conclusões. Recordese que as "verdades absolutas" sempre foram perniciosas na história da humanidade, pois se, apossadas por poderes mal-intencionados, poderão ser nefastos para uma determinada comunidade. E, infelizmente a África está cheia desses exemplos.
Können sich die indianischen Kulturen Nordamerikas im 21. Jahrhundert anders behaupten als nur in der Pflege von Folklore? Wie können Stammesangehörige mit den überlieferten Kenntnissen umgehen und damit ihr Leben in der modernen amerikanischen Gesellschaft gestalten? Wie bestehen Kulturen, die nur knapp der Ausrottung entgangen sind, als Minderheiten im eigenen Land?
Dans sa biographie parue dans Anthologie de la littérature gabonaise (1976), les co-auteurs Yvonne Léyimangoye et Blaise Nicolas écriront : « il est très tôt initié à la tradition par son père, réputé pour sa connaissance des Sciences sacrées. […]. il apprend auprès de Zuè-Nguéma, Eko Bikoro et Edou Ada l’art de jouer du Mvett. […]. Ecrire le Mvett a été pour lui une manière d’apporter sa contribution à la culture universelle.» (p. 35). L’oeuvre de Tsira Ndong Ndoutoume ne se circonscrit pas uniquement au Mvett. Passionné d’écriture, c’est lui qui publie en 1944 l’une des premières nouvelles de la littérature gabonaise : Que les pieds voyagent afin que les yeux voient. En 1970, avec le tome 1 du Mvett, il est le deuxième gabonais, après André Raponda-Walker, à publier une oeuvre littéraire dans la prestigieuse maison d’édition Présence Africaine.
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is a multicultural province within a multicultural state. Hence, its political leaders not only face the need to integrate ethnic and cultural diversity into a regional framework, but also have to define Aceh’s role within the Indonesian nation. During its violent past which was characterized by exploitation and military oppression, there were good reasons to emphasize sameness over diversity and to build up the consciousness of a unified Acehnese identity. From both an emic and an etic perspective, it is today widely accepted that there is such a thing as a homogeneous Acehnese culture which is rooted in a glorious, though troublesome, history of repression and rebellion and shaped by a strong Islamic piety. Even if it is true that Acehnese history has created a strong regional identity, it must not be forgotten that people living in this area belong to various ethnic and cultural groups and that they represent a rich variety of different cultures rather than simply a single homogeneous culture. As a matter of fact, the practises and discourses of Islam here also vary depending on the cultural background of the people. As elsewhere in Indonesia and beyond, world religions have to adapt to local customs, have to be appropriated by the local people, and have to be indigenized. This is the reason why adat still continues to play a role in every local context, even if it has been treated with suspicion in many parts of Indonesia since the Dutch colonial administration began using it as a counterforce against Islam in order to implement their divide-and-rule strategy. With this article, I wish to shed some light on the complexities of Acehnese culture, as it encompasses numerous very distinct local cultures and this reflects on the general significance of culture for the construction and reconstruction of post-tsunami Aceh.
Yuniyanti Chuzaifah is one of the founders of "Voice of Concerned Mothers" (Suara Ibu Peduli or SIP) and later joined the "Coalition of Indonesian Women" (Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia or KPI). She studied at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and later returned to Indonesia. Since March 2010 she has been the Director of the "Indonesian National Commission on Violence against Women" (Komnas Perempuan). This interview was conducted on 15 March 2010 at the organisation’s premises in Jakarta.
Physiologie de la Parisienne
(1841)
Angola hat, besonders im 19. Jh., zahlreiche deutsche Forschungsreisende angezogen, die aber nur selten Berücksichtigung finden. Ihnen widmet sich dieses Buch, das zugleich Neuinterpretation, Handbuch und Anthologie ist. Darüber hinaus vermittelt es grundsätzliche Einblicke in die Geschichte der Ethnologie. 30 Kurzbiographien geben Hinweise zum Lebenslauf der Forschungsreisenden mit den Hauptdaten und dem Verlauf der Reise(n) in Angola, ihren Zielen, den Veröffentlichungen, sowie zu ethnographischen Sammlungen und visueller Dokumentation. Sie werden durch Textbeispiele aus den Werken der betreffenden Afrikareisenden ergänzt. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird jeweils auf das Bild gerichtet, das sich die deutschen Reisenden von den afrikanischen Menschen gemacht haben, sowie auf die Art und Weise und den Kontext, in dem ihre späteren Publikationen über diese Begegnungen zustande kamen. Spezialbibliographien zu jedem der Forscher vermitteln erstmals eine umfassende bibliographische Übersicht. Über die biographischen Aspekte hinaus geht es im wesentlichen, vor allem in der ausführlichen Einführung, um die Entstehungsbedingungen und die Entstehungsgeschichte unserer Quellen, um die spezifischen Umstände und den allgemeinen Kontext der Produktion unseres Wissens. Abbildungen einiger Skulpturen aus den mitgebrachten ethnographischen Sammlungen, die wir heute als Meisterwerke afrikanischer Kunst bewundern, bilden einen eindrucksvollen visuellen Kontrast zu den meist abschätzigen Urteilen ihrer Sammler über diesen "Fetischkram".
Contém trinta biografias resumidas de exploradores alemães, na sua maioria, do século XIX, que fizeram pesquisas etnográficas em Angola. As biografias são complementadas por textos extraidos das suas obras, que incluem alguns dos seus relatos etnográficos mais importantes. Dá-se especial atenção à imagem dos viajantes alemães sobre os africanos, bem como às condições e ao contexto em que posteriormente foram redigidos os textos publicados sobre esses encontros. Para além dos aspectos biográficos, interessam-nos sobretudo as condições e a história das origens das nossas fontes, as circunstâncias e o contexto geral da produção do nosso conhecimento. A bibliografia específica sobre cada um dos exploradores fornece, pela primeira vez, uma visão bibliográfica abrangente. As reproduções de algumas esculturas de colecções etnográficas trazidas por esses exploradores, que hoje admiramos como obras primas da arte africana, constituem um contraste visual ilucidativo em relação aos juízos geralmente depreciativos dos coleccionadores acerca desta „tralha feiticista“.
Rezension zu: Julian Millie: Splashed by the saint. Ritual reading and islamic sanctity in West Java
(2011)
"Vom Heiligen bespritzt. Rituelle Lesung und muslimische Heiligkeit in Westjava" ist der aus dem Englischen wörtlich übersetzte Titel einer modernen Ethnografie zum Sunda-Gebiet. Wie in einer klassischen Ethnografie wird ein bestimmtes Ritual ins Zentrum der Untersuchung gerückt. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Lesung, die sich auf "Heiligkeit" bezieht und deshalb vom Autor als karamat-Lesung (Arab.: karamat - charismatische und/oder mystische Kraft) bezeichnet wird. Die Lesungen finden entweder im privaten, häuslichen Umfeld oder in einem Pesantren (muslimisches Internat) statt, wo sie von jedem Interessenten besucht werden können. Kern des Rituals sind Texte über Abd al-Qadir al-Jaelani, den die Ritualteilnehmer als Mittler zu Allah verstehen, und an dessen Heiligkeit sie Anteil haben können. Interessant ist dabei, dass Abd al Qadir kein autochthoner Urahn ist. Der Legende nach wurde er 1088 n. Chr. in Gilan im Iran geboren und in Bagdad beerdigt, wo sein Grabmal zu einer Pilgerstätte von Muslimen aus aller Welt geworden ist. Erklärtes Ziel des Autors ist es, zu untersuchen, was ritualisiertes Lesen und die Rezitation sakraler Erzählungen über Islamische Frömmigkeit und über den Raum, den die Texte in der muslimischen Gesellschaft einnehmen, aussagen.
This paper discusses the implications of transnational media production and diasporic networks for the cultural politics of migrant minorities. How are fields of cultural politics transformed if Hirschmann’s famous options ‘exit’ and ‘voice’ are no longer constituting mutually exclusive responses to dissent within a nation-state, but modes of action that can combine and build upon each other in the context of migration and diasporic media activism? Two case studies are discussed in more detail, relating to Alevi amateur television production in Germany and to a Kurdish satellite television station that reaches out to a diaspora across Europe and the Middle East. Keywords: migrant media, transnationalism, Alevis, Kurds, Turkey, Germany
Die Arbeit untersucht die Herstellung und ökonomische Umsetzung von "ethnischem Anderssein" in sog. Kultur-Kochkursen in Frankfurt am Main. In den beforschten Kultur-Kochkursen vermitteln ethnisch markierte KochkursleiterInnen "ihre Küche und Kultur" einem (multikulturalistisch) interessiertem Publikum. Die Arbeit fokussiert auf die performative Herstellung, Umsetzung und Repräsentation von (vermarktbarem) ethnischen Andersseins durch die KochkursleiterInnen in der Kochkurssituation und überprüft die Annahme, dass Ethnizität primär durch (Selbst-)Othering – die Betonung von unüberbrückbarer, essentieller kultureller Differenz – vermarktet wird. Die Befunde, welche auf Internetrecherchen, teilnehmenden Beobachtungen und narrativen Interviews basieren, zeigen, dass die organisierenden Institutionen die Kulturkochkurse zwar mit dem Verweis auf Authentizität, Tradition und Andersartigkeit bewerben, die Kultur-KochkursleiterInnen selbst in der Kochkurssituation allerdings kein kulturalistisches, exotisierendes und Differenz betonendes Ethnizitätskonzept perfomieren, sondern vielmehr Dynamik, Vielfalt und Vermischungen artikulieren, praktizieren und stark positiv konnotieren.