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Wie heilig sind Wald und Wasser? Die Rolle von Landschaftskonzepten im Disput um Tourismusentwicklung in einem Naturschutzgebiet in Nordbali, Indonesien
(2020-12-17)This social anthropological study deals with the tug-of-war which arose at the emergence of two investment projects in the Nature Recreation Area of Buyan-Tamblingan in Northern Bali (Indonesia). The conflict was triggered ... -
Resource Flows and Technology Adoption in Tamale, Ghana: Implications for Urban and Peri-Urban Vegetable Growers
(2018-12-19)Vegetable farming in Ghana`s urban areas is mostly a sustainable livelihood strategy. Alt-hough it is considered a means of survival for the poor, vegetable farming is practiced by urban dwellers across the income spectrum. ... -
Die Wirkmächtigkeit von masyarakat adat
(2018-12-11)In 2007 Pratt called on social scientists to concentrate on the generativity of indigeneity. Heeding his call, this dissertation focusses on the multiplicity of processes induced by an identification as masyarakat adat. ... -
(Thai-)Land in Bewegung: Nostalgien und inländische Tourismusmobilitäten
(2018-11-21)This dissertation examines the manifold mobility dynamics and social transformations in which the development of domestic tourism in Thailand is embedded. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Chiang Khan, a small town ... -
Petro-Democracy
(2018-09-13)In 2008, Niger signed an oil contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) over the Agadem oil block located in the far eastern region of Diffa; and in 2011, they inaugurated the country’s first and only oil ... -
Die Macht der Artefakte
(2018-08-02)For several years now, an area of anthropological research under the umbrella of ‘Material Culture Studies‘ has increasingly addressed the understanding of things. Questions under investigation include how relationships ... -
Heilen in der Stadt
(2018-07-05)This dissertation explores how the urban context of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) influences the use of medicinal plants and the strategies of medicinal plant users. Medicinal plants are a highly contested resource ... -
Local Knowledge, Disease and Healing in a Papua Community
(2018-05-23)In my dissertation entitled “Local Knowledge, Disease and Healing in a Papua Community”, I describe and analyse the concepts, knowledge and practices concerning the health and disease of the Tehit people in the South Sorong ... -
Farmer-herder relations in Ghana: interplay of environmental change, conflict, cooperation and social networks
(2017-08-30)Farmer-herder relations and interactions are not new in West Africa. They have existed for a long time and have been the subject of scholarship. These relations are presented as marked by conflict, cooperation and ... -
"Wir schützen unseren Park".
(2015-12-16)The dissertation focuses on the Pendjari National Park in northern Benin, founded as an animal protection area in 1954 under French colonial rule. Since then it has been object of often conflictual negotiations between ... -
Auf der Suche nach der Hawaiischen Nation
(2013-09-27)The dissertation’s focus is on the analysis of the "Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement", a political movement of indigenous Hawaiians. Playing an important role during the 1990s (with the centennial of the overthrow celebrated ... -
Der Regenwald ist unser Haus. Die Orang Rimba auf Sumatra zwischen Autonomie und Fremdbestimmung
(2012-10-30)The Orang Rimba are a group of semi-nomadic forest dwellers living in Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia). For the Orang Rimba the rainforest is a world of gods, spirits and resources, in which life follows its own laws. The rain ... -
Dynamiken in der Gruppenbildung der Kurden durch nationalstaatliche Prozesse
(2010-08-26)This academic approach examines, explains and drafts processes that created and helped organizing kurdish formation of groups in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan aiming to an explanation for ... -
Indigene Bewegung und "Identitätspolitik" in Ecuador
(2009-10-29)The upswing of ethnic, or movements often characterized as ethno-nationalistic, is a phenomenon taking place all over the world. With the end of the cold war most armed conflicts were now interpreted overhastly as ethnically ... -
The cultural context of biodiversity conservation
(2008-04-29)Due to the recognition that many areas of the world that contain high levels of biodiversity are cultural landscapes inhabited by indigenous and local communities, the significant role such communities play in preserving ... -
Konkurrenz um die Ressource Wasser
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Cultural Property und Cultural Heritage. Eine ethnologische Analyse internationaler Konzeptionen im Vergleich
(2007-09-25)The following thesis deals with the conceptional change from cultural property to cultural heritage within the UNESCO. The draft of cultural property was first established through the UNESCO ... -
Die kulturelle Konstruktion von Verwandtschaft unter den Bedingungen der Reproduktionstechnologien in Deutschland
(2002-12-09)Central to the euro-american assumptions of "natural" kinship is the idea of biogenetic kinship. Conception, symbolized through sexual intercourse of the potential parents, thereby constitutes ... -
Grenzkonflikte um Person und Leben
(2002-07-25)Deconstructing the concept of personhood by observing the social praxis as the common anthropological approach, reveals that 'person' is not equivalent to the human being as a biological ...