Martin Gruber
Martin Gruber is a research associate at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research at the University of Bremen. Until April 2024 he was a research associate at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research. He conducts ethnographic research on the relationship between humans and honeybees in Germany, Japan and Cameroon as an associated member of the Department. Martin's research interests are multimodal research, ethnographic film, collaborative research and multispecies anthropology as well as aging and health. Martin Gruber studied anthropology at the University of Hamburg and visual anthropology at Goldsmiths College London.
Main topics:
Audio-visual anthropology, media anthropology, ethnographic film, urban ethnology, political ecology, human-animal studies, multi-species ethnography, bees
Regional focus:
Southern Africa, West Africa, Hamburg, Bremen
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Publications
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. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10369 (with Dom Cram et al.)
2022 Safeguarding human-wildlife cooperation. Conservation Letters. 2022; e12886. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12886 (with Jessica van der Wal et al.)
2021 Mehr als ein sü?es Hobby: Stadtimkerei. Soziale und kulturelle Dimensionen urbaner Bienenhaltung. Universit?t 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 Wei?k?ppel)
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 K?ppe Verlag. K?ln. (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: Universit?t 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. G?ttingen & Windhoek: Klaus Hess Publishers: 326-331.
2008 Aufkl?rungsfilme als Beispiel angewandter Ethnologie? Ethnoscripts 10(2): 184-190.
2007 Platzverweis. Obdachlose in der Hamburger Innenstadt. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
2007 Betroffene von R?umungsklagen und Verbleib von Zwangsger?umten: Eine ethnologische Untersuchung zu Lebenssituation und Verbleibsalternativen. Münster: LIT Verlag. (mit Waltraud Kokot).
2007 Wald, Fluss, Schlange: Neues Museum für au?ereurop?ische 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).
Films & Multimedia:
2023 Sensing Bees. Multimodal Website. view here
2019 Walking Windhoek. Walking, Memory, Decolonising, Storytelling. Interactive Website. view here
2018 First Harvest, Japan, 8 min., University of Bremen view here
2016 Between Islam and the Sacred Forest, Guinea, 52 min, ethnofilm. view here
2015 Gbaya: Beekeeping and Honey Hunting, Cameroon, 44 min., University of Bremen view here
2013 Our Missionaries, 8 min., Guinea, gruberfilm view here
2013 Huchi - Honey, 39 min., Angola, University of Bremen view here
2013 The Secret of Our Environment, 34 min., Botswana, University of Bremen view here
2011 Liparu Lyetu - Our Life, Namibia, 32 min., Namibia, University of Bremen view here
2009 Bridging the Gap, South Africa, 20 min., BIOTA AFRICA. view here
2009 Gesichter des Alters, Germany, 66 min., Grassi Ethnographic Museum Leipzig. view 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, Germany, 23 min., intervention press.
2003 Cultivating Death, Great Britain, 23 min., gruberfilm. view here
2002 sleeping rough, Germany, 43 min., gruberfilm. view here