Alexander Knorr (ethnologist)

Alexander Knorr (* 1970 ) is a German ethnologist and private lecturer who researches and teaches in the field of cyber anthropology . Since 2009 he has been an academic senior counselor at the Institute for Ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Knorr studied ethnology, psychology and theater studies at Munich University, wrote his doctoral thesis on Metatrickster: Burton, Taxil, Gurdjieff, Backhouse, Crowley, Castaneda in 2002 and received his teaching license in 2009 with the project Maxmod - an Ethnography of Cyberculture .

Works

• 2006: maxmod: online among the gamemodders - the cultural appropriation of information and communication technologies (English; online ).
• 2011: Cyberanthropology. Hammer, Wuppertal, ISBN 978-3-7795-0359-0 (German).

Web links

• Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich : Privatdozent Dr. Alexander Knorr. Institute for Social Anthropology, accessed October 5, 2014 . 
• Alexander Knorr aka Zephyrin Xirdal: Xirdalium blog. In: xirdalium.net. Retrieved October 5, 2014 . 
• Alexander Knorr aka Zephyrin Xirdal: Introduction: Cyberanthropology. In: maxmod.xirdalium.net. Own blog, January 29, 2006, accessed October 5, 2014 .