Social & cultural anthropology

Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century

History, Experience and Narration

Although the Jews of Central Asia have a long, eventful and fascinating history, the community of the Bukharan Jews attracted very little attention from researchers until...

»Bubalin« und »Bovidien« in Südmarokko

Kontext, Klassifikation und Chronologie der Felsbilder im mittleren Draa-Tal

This book deals with prehistoric rock art (petroglyphs) from the northern fringe of the Sahara, or more precisely from the area situated between the Western Anti-Atlas, the Jebel...

Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam

„Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam“ is a preliminary survey of the pre-modern literature of Central and Northern Siam. Based on old records,...

Bankettgebäude in griechischen Heiligtümern

The consumption of sacrificial meat was a central part of Greek cult festivals. People used to dine outdoors or in temporary structures specifically built for the festivals....

Existenzsicherung und Mobilität im ariden Marokko

The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. New economic and social...

Das alte Vietnam

Auf den Spuren des Abbé Charles-Thomas de Saint-Phalle in Tunkin

In 1779, the German scholar Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard translated the French book “Histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Tonquin” of Jérôme Richard, which had been...

Tradition und Wandel

Untersuchungen zu Gräberfeldern in der Westlichen Han-Zeit (206 v. Chr. bis 9 n. Chr.)

Just before the unification of the Chinese empire by the first emperor Qin Shihuangdi (221 bis 210 BC) China is determined by the antagonism of the two culturally very different...

Buddhism and Violence

One of the aims of this volume is to provide material, based on critical, unbiased research illustrating the fact that, at particular moments in their history and in certain...

Shifts and Drifts in Nomad-Sedentary Relations

Historians of the Ancient and Roman Middle East, Anthropologists, and specialists of the Islamic Middle East explore changing conceptions of nomadic and sedentary life, and...

Verwandtschaft, Religion und Geschlecht im Aserbaidschan

The book relies on a 15months field research in an Azerbaijan village and treats gender spe-cific ideologies in the two domains of kinship and religion. It is shown, that the...

Die Schule der georgischen Nation

Eine sozialhistorische Untersuchung der nationalen Bewegung in Georgien am Beispiel der »Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung der Lese- und Schreibkunde unter den Georgiern« (1850 bis 1917)

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Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die Mitglieder der 1879 gegründeten „Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung der Lese- und...

Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains

A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan

This book is a description and an analysis of the sung poetry of the Ismailis from Tajik Badakhshan and is based on material collected during fieldwork in the Pamir Mountains, in...

Governing the Holy City

The Interaction of Social Groups in Jerusalem between the Fatimid and the Ottoman Period

The history of Jerusalem during the Islamic Middle Ages was not confined to the foundation of sanctuaries, and the struggle over their control – even if these aspects could not be...

In den Weiten des Pazifik – Mikronesien

Ausgewählte Objekte aus den Sammlungen der Museen für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig und Dresden

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Die kunsthandwerklichen Erzeugnisse der Mikronesier und Polynesier sind kaum bekannt. Dieser Katalog, in dem die...

Interdisziplinäre Iran-Forschung

Beiträge aus Kulturgeographie, Ethnologie, Soziologie und Neuerer Geschichte

Bahtiyaren – Persische Bergnomaden im Wandel der Zeit

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Der vorliegende Band stellt die Lebens- und Wirtschaftsformen der Bahtiyaren, Bergnomaden in SW-Iran, auf den...

Une communauté de potiers en Iran

Le centre de Meybod (Yazd)