“When you cross this threshold, you’re in Germany!”

Sites of Memory Among German Men Living in Thailand

Raphael Reichel

University of Tübingen

My paper is based on material I gathered during a field trip in spring 2016 for my ongoing PhD project about German men living in Thailand and being in a relationship with a Thai woman there. It will cover a small aspect of my topic related to ‘sites of memory’. Even though some of the men have been living in Thailand for more than 30 years, my interview transcripts revealed that all of them related to a certain ‘memory’ of Germany. I will present how this memory becomes visible e.g. in material culture, everyday practices or use of language.

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With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

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