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Matthew Amster is a Professor at Gettysburg College in the Cinema & Media Studies program, specializing in cultural anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking. He also serves as a Faculty Associate in Research for the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University.
His educational background includes:
- BA from Evergreen State College
- MA from Brandeis University
- PhD from Brandeis University
Amster's research spans Southeast Asia and Scandinavia, with fieldwork among the Kelabit people of Borneo examining religious conversion, urban ethnicity, gossip networks, and border impacts. His recent work explores Viking reenactment and Norse paganism in Denmark. He merges anthropology with documentary filmmaking, producing works like 'The Internet and the Water Buffalo' (2008) on Borneo's digital transition and 'Hallowed Ground' on Gettysburg Civil War reenactors.
He teaches core anthropology courses including Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 103), Culture on Film (ANTH 215), Scandinavia Today (ANTH 242), Religion Power and Belief (ANTH 227), History of Anthropological Theory (ANTH 300), and Capstone Experience in Anthropology (ANTH 400).
