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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...