Martin Gruber
Dr. Martin Gruber
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Martin Gruber works as an anthropologist and filmmaker at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen. Currently Martin conducts ethnographic research on the relationships between humans and honeybees in Cameroon, Japan and Germany. His PhD on collaborative filmmaking obtained from the University of Bremen in 2013 is based on fieldwork in Angola, Namibia and Botswana. Martin studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at Hamburg University as well as Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College London.
Memberships
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
- Visual Anthropology Network of EASA
- German Anthropological Association (GAA)
- AG Visuelle Anthropologie of GAA
- Bremer Institut für Kulturforschung (bik)
Peer Review:
- Anthrovision
- Social Anthropology
- Science, Technology, and Human Values
- Journal of Apilcultural Research
- Trajectoria
Bibliography (selected):
2023 Film Review. Swarm Season. Directed by Sarah Christman. Grasshopper Film. 2019. 86 minutes,color. Visual Anthropology Review. DOI: 10.1111/var.12305.
2022 Sharing the Camera. A Guide to Collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing.
2022 The ecology and evolution of human-wildlife cooperation. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10369 (with Dom Cram et al.)
2022 Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation. Conservation Letters. 2022; e12886. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12886 (with Jessica van der Wal et al.)
2021 Mehr als ein süßes Hobby: Stadtimkerei. Soziale und kulturelle Dimensionen urbaner Bienenhaltung. Universität Bremen. DOI 10.26092/elib/1158
2021 Precious/Precarious Images: Cameroonian Studio Photography in the Digital Age, Visual Anthropology 34(3): 214-233. DOI 10.1080/08949468.2021.1908112
2020 Walking, Memory, Storytelling, Decolonisation. Werkstattbericht: Zwei kollaborative Workshops zur Erprobung von Methoden der Dekolonisierung, Windhoek 2019. Ethnoscripts 22(1): 168-183. open access (link) (with Cordula Weißköppel)
2019 Heroes and Heroines. Online Publication. access here
2019 Les Ruches Coniques d’Adamoua au Caméroun. in Abeilles: Une Histoire Intime avec l’Humanité. Regert Martine, ed. Pp 90-91.Paris: Cherche Midi
2019 Honey Hunting and Beekeeping in Adamaoua (Cameroon). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Köln. (mit Mazi Sanda) access here.
2018 Hunters and Guides: Multispecies Encounters between Humans, Honeyguide Birds and Honeybees. African Study Monographs 39 (4): 169-187. DOI 10.14989/236670
2018 Film Review: I am the People (Je suis le Pauple) by Anna Roussillon. American Anthropologist 120 (2). 359-360. DOI 10.1111/aman.13038
2017 Between Islam and the Sacred Forest. Journal of Anthropological Films 1 (1). DOI: 10.15845/jaf.v1i1.1348
2016 Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking: Transcultural Collaboration in Research and Filmmaking. Visual Ethnography 5(1). access
2015 Liparu Lyetu – Our Life. Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking in Applied Contexts. Bremen: Universität Bremen.
2013 Transdisciplinary research and stakeholder involvement. A review of the TFO approach. – In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M., Jürgens, N. [Eds.]: Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. – Biodiversity & Ecology 5: 195–212. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00275. (mit Schmidt, L., Domptail, S., Klintenberg, P., Schmiedel, U., Zimmermann, I., Falk, T.)
2012 Henley, Paul: The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema. In: Ethnoscripts 14(1): 197-199.
2010 Film making as an instrument of research communication and capacity development. – In: Schmiedel, U., Jürgens, N. [Eds.]: Biodiversity in Southern Africa. Volume 2: Patterns and Processes at Regional Scale. Göttingen & Windhoek: Klaus Hess Publishers: 326–331.
2008 Aufklärungsfilme als Beispiel angewandter Ethnologie? Ethnoscripts 10(2): 184-190.
2007 Platzverweis. Obdachlose in der Hamburger Innenstadt. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
2007 Betroffene von Räumungsklagen und Verbleib von Zwangsgeräumten: Eine ethnologische Untersuchung zu Lebenssituation und Verbleibsalternativen. Münster: LIT Verlag. (mit Waltraud Kokot).
2007 Wald, Fluss, Schlange: Neues Museum für außereuropäische Kunst. Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Ethnoscripts 9(1): 207-213.
2006 Street Magazine, Social Welfare, Soup Kitchen: The Income Strategies of Urban Homeless People in Hamburg/Germany. Ethnoscripts 8(1): 79-92.
2002 Parallelwelten. Eine Feldforschung über Obdachlosigkeit in der Hamburger Innenstadt. Ethnoscripts 4(1): 61-81.
2002 Gruber, Martin: Cinéma Vérité. Vokus 12(3): 23-31.
2001 Innenansichten. Kultur der Obdachlosigkeit in der Hamburger Innenstadt. Hamburg: Institut für Ethnologie. (mit Waltraud Kokot & Felix Axster).
Filmography & Multimedia (selection):
2023 Sensing Bees. Multimodal Website. access here
2019 Walking Windhoek. Walking, Memory, Decolonising, Storytelling. Interactive Website. access here
2018 First Harvest, Japan, 8 min., Universität Bremen access here
2016 Between Islam and the Sacred Forest, Guinea, 52 min, ethnofilm. access here
2015 Gbaya: Beekeeping and Honey Hunting, Kamerun, 44 min., Uni Bremen access here
2013 Our Missionaries, 8 min., Guinea, gruberfilm access here
2013 Huchi - Honey, 39 min., Angola, Universität Bremen access here
2013 The Secret of Our Environment, 34 min., Botswana, Universität Bremen access here
2011 Liparu Lyetu – Our Life, Namibia, 32 min., Namibia, Universität Bremen access here
2009 Bridging the Gap, Südafrika, 20 min., BIOTA AFRICA. access here
2009 Gesichter des Alters, Deutschland, 66 min., Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig. access here
2008 Mema Eparu – Water is Life, Namibia, 34 min., Lux-Development.
2007 Wiza Wetu! – Our Forest, Namibia, 53 min., BIOTA AFRICA.
2006 The Future of Visual Anthropology, Deutschland, 23 min., intervention press.
2003 Cultivating Death, Großbritannien, 23 min., gruberfilm. access here
2002 abgehakt, Deutschland, 43 min., gruberfilm. access here
- Blended-Learning Module Kuwi-Capacities https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/kuwicapacities/ Winter Semester 2019/20, University of Bremen
- Seminar for MA candidates, Winter Semester 2019/20, University of Bremen
- Introduction to Anthropology, Winter Semester 2017/18, Winter Semester 2016/17,
Winter Semester 2015/16, University of Bremen - Digital Storytelling, Winter Semester 2017/18, Winter Semester 2016/17, Winter Semester 2017/18, University of Bremen
- Experiencing and Representing Anthropology through Ethnographic Filmmaking,
Summer Semester 2017, Summer Semester 2015, University of Bremen - Transcultural Media: Culture and Film, Summer Semester 2016, University of Bremen
- Of Humans and Honeybees: Perspectives from Cultural and Natural Research,
Summer Semester 2016, University of Bremen - Storytelling in the Digital Age, Winter Semester 2015/16, University of Bremen
- Experiments in Sensory Ethnography, Summer Semester 2015,
University of Bremen Mobile Medien und Technologien, Winter Semester 2014/15, University of Bremen - Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Ethnographic Film, Winter Semester 2014/15,
Winter Semester 2004/5, University of Bremen; Winter Semester 2010/2011,
Winter Semester 2009/2010, Summer Semester 2009, University of Hamburg - Transnationality in Documentary Film, Summer Semester 2014, Winter Semester 2014/15,
University of Bremen - Anthropology of Southern Africa, Summer Semester 2014, University of Bremen Halle Summer School for Visual Anthropology, 07/2010 – 08/2010, University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Culture in Documentary Films: Visual Anthropology, Summer Semester 2010, University of Bremen
- Contemporary Approaches of Ethnographic Film, Summer Semester 2010, University of Hamburg
- Methods of Visual Anthropology: Videography, Winter Semester 2007/2008, University of Hamburg
- The Cinematic City – Filmic Representations of Cities from an Anthropological Perspective,
Summer Semester 2006, University of Hamburg - Videography for Cultural Researchers, Summer Semester 2006, University of Bremen