Institution: | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei. His book Erotik und Kultur in Melanesien;was published in 1997. Since 2000 he has conducted fieldwork among the Rmeet in Northern Laos. His doctoral thesis, 'The men who cut the money tree: Concepts of exchange and society among the Rmeet of Takheung, Laos' (in German) won the Frobenius Award. He also publishes short fiction and music reviews. His email is |