Ethnologiebücher - englischsprachig  (153 Angebote unter 17.391.485 Artikeln)

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied perf...

The demise of the modern self-centred subject does not engender a waning but a politicisation of affect: The site of passion is now no longer the individual's interiority but the contact zone of in...

Alexander Strashny examinines what defines Ukrainians as a people and makes them tick. Based on an analysis of Ukraine's history, everyday life, economy, military affairs, gender, religion, art, mu...

What can we learn from children traversing the liminal and transient time-space of migration? How do migrant children and their caretakers navigate educational systems in Europe today? How is it to...

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the ...

Dieser Band ist Teil der Enzyklopädie »Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute« des Afrikanisten Oswin Köhler. Darin werden Originalquellen mit Übersetzung seiner über 30jährigen Feldforschung (1954-1990) zu ...

"Wayang" bezeichnet das indonesische Stabpuppen-Theater und davon abgeleitete Formen des Volkstheaters. Das Buch gibt nicht nur eine neue, systematische Einführung und Übersicht über die Figurenwel...

Transmission Processes of Religious Knowledge and Ritual Practice in Alevism between Innovation and Reconstruction

Every society has its own definition of a normal and an abnormal human condition. For persons living with mental disorders, these concepts have a tremendous impact. This study investigates how the ...

Sahra L. Lindeberg holds a BA and MA in Science of Religion from Aarhus University Denmark and studied three years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After earning her PhD, she taught Jewish St...

The Authors: Ekkehard Ellinger, Dr. Phil., studied Social Sciences and Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He carried out research on the history of German Islamic Studies culminating ...

Urte Undine Frömming, born 1970 in Eutin (Germany), is junior professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the head of the Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at...

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate the...

CrossAsia-eBooks wurde 2022 in Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing (HASP) umbenannt. Titel mit den Erscheinungsjahren 2016 bis 2021 wurden unter ,,CrossAsia-eBooks" veröffentlicht. Wege durchs Laby...

This volume offers a selection of articles developed from the SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) congress 2017 in Göttingen which all focus on the topic of dwelling. How are wa...