Research interests
Popular culture, media anthropology, anthropology of religion, disability studies, critical race studies
Research areas
West Africa (in particular Nigeria), East Africa (in particular Tanzania)
The joint project CEDITRAA - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia investigates how digitization is changing cultural production in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. ...
Special section, edited by Jan Beek, Cassis KIlian and Matthias Krings, Social Anthropology 27.3, 2019 ...
Different shades of white: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the albinotic body
6th - 8th September 2018, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz ...
Matthias Krings: African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. ...
Steffen Köhn and Matthias Krings: Always-on. Sehen und gesehen werden in einer vernetzten Welt. Ausstellung in der Schule des Sehens der JGU Mainz 11.12.2015 - 4.2.2016. ...
Matthias Krings and Uta Reuster-Jahn (eds.): Bongo Media Worlds. Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar es Salaam. Reihe: Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung Band 34. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2014. ...
Matthias Krings u. Onookome Okome (Hg.): Global Nollywood. The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Thomas Bierschenk, Matthias Krings u. Carola Lentz (Hg.): Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Reimer, 2013.
Karl N. Renner, Dagmar v. Hoff u. Matthias Krings (Hg.): Medien - Erzählen - Gesellschaft. Transmediales Erzählen im Zeitalter der Medienkonvergenz. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2013.