Profession: student

Just having graduated after six years at the University of Basel, learning has been the center of my life for a long time. Here you can find the papers I've written during the last years, and there are some interesting links that you might want to check out.

I love being a student. It gives me the opportunity to study for knowledge's sake (well, mostly...) and gives me time to explore and widen my horizons. My major of Social Anthropology allowed me to combine my interest in in traveling and the fascinating behavior and diversity of humanity. My minors were Media Science and German Lit (a left-over from when German was my major, way back when), but my passion lies definitely in Anthropology and other subjects that study human beings. I have also begun to be interested in how and why the internet works, on a social level, mainly because this is something that's very important in my everyday life.

In the end I graduated with a diploma that equals an MA, after writing my thesis with the title 'Bridging the Digital Divide: Anthropology, Native Americans and the Digital Divide' and completing a number of exams in all three subjects. Now I plan on going abroad an pursue a degree in Human Resource Management in New Zealand. Where that will lead me, I'm not quite sure yet, although I'm dreaming of working in an international organization like the UN. It's an interesting journey, that's for sure...

Papers
Sorted by topic and order in which they were written. In .pdf format, with my name and address deleted. * denotes a paper in English, else German.

Social Anthropology
- Fremd- und selbstbestimmter Tourismus am Beispiel indigener Völker (Anthropology of Tourism)
- Annette B. Weiner: The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea (1988) - Weiblicher Reichtum und weibliche Macht auf Kiriwina, Trobriand-Inseln (Anthropology of Gender)
- Besessenheit im sozialen Kontext (Medical Anthropology)
- Presentation and self-presentation of New Zealand Maori* (fieldwork report)
- Dead Men Working: A historical-anthropological look at the modern zombie phenomenon in Africa* (Historical Anthropology)

Media Studies
- Das vernetzte Individuum: Identität im Zeitalter des Internets (online identity)
- Pervy Hobbit Fanciers Unite!: The dynamics of online communities from the perspective of the Lord of the Rings fan community on LiveJournal* (online communities)

German Literature
- (Selbst-)Wahrnehmung und Erinnerung: Subjektkonstitution und -destruktion in Rainer Maria Rilkes "Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" im Vergleich mit Ernst Machs "Analyse der Empfindungen" (Literature of 1900)
- Femme fatale und fatales Mädchen: Die Figur der Salome in Oscar Wildes "Salomé" und Hermann Sudermanns "Johannes" (Myth 'Salome')
"Wenn ich nicht sterben soll, so will ich heiraten": Erzähler, Struktur der Erzählung und Charakterentwicklung in Jeremias Gotthelfs Michels Brautschau ('Biedermeier' literature)

German Linguistics (dropped after 1 year)
- Die Periodisierung der deutschen Sprachgeschichte: Periodisierungsvorschläge - Grundlagen, Beispiele und Vergleich (Geography and History of German)

Plagiarism Is Bad! So don't steal my papers and pretend that they're yours. Even if you don't have any respect for the work I did, don't think that your teachers are stupid and won't notice - believe me, it's happened before... :) If you want to cite me, please get in touch and I'll give you my full name.