Ethnology. Social Sciences

Politics of Qat

The Role of a Drug in Ruling Yemen

Teil 1
21 x 28 cm, 880 p., 14 s/w- und 13 farbige Karten, hardback
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For Imam Yahya, one of Yemen’s last kings, qat was a delight that he praised in poems. For his adversary, the revolutionary al-Zubayri, the plant was the “devil in the shape of a tree«”. Still today the views on qat …

Ausgewählt, übersetzt und kommentiert von Elguja Dadunashvili und Agnes Korn

Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen

Texte zum Volksglauben in Georgien

12 x 16.5 cm, 114 p., 1 Karte, paperback / softback
12.80 €
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This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured form, and to make this type of traditional culture accessible for systematic research. The texts, most of which were collected in the 19th …

Leben und Handeln im Alltag von Kairo

Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch

17 x 24 cm, 604 p., hardback
148.00 €
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Under the influence of political and social discourses as a result of 9/11 and the Orientalist allegations on the part of Arab intellectuals, Lars Gaiser developed a new action-oriented approach, which he has tested in four everyday situations: ‘enabling formation,’ …

Erlebte Ethnologie

Ein Rückblick auf die Geschichte der Universitäts-Ethnologie in Leipzig 1951 bis 1993

17 x 24 cm, 184 p., hardback
49.00 €
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In seiner „Erlebten Ethnologie“ gibt Dietrich Treide einen Rückblick auf ein sehr wesentliches Kapitel der Geschichte des ältesten deutschen Instituts für Völkerkunde, auf die Universitäts-Ethnologie in Leipzig nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands und weitere vier Jahre darüber …

Westcar on the Nile

A journey through Egypt in the 1820s

21 x 27 cm, 264 p., 1 farbige Karte, 1 Stammbaum, hardback
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On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the course of their travels, witnessed the turmoils of a …

Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils

Kulturgeschichtliche Epochenwende in der Literatur der letzten irakisch-jüdischen Autoren

17 x 24 cm, 340 p., hardback
78.00 €
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“Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils” is the first comprehensive German-language study of Iraqi-Jewish literature. It is also the first study on the subject to consider memoirs written after 2003 as well as novels published by Iraqi Muslim authors, and offers …

»Gott liebt das Handwerk«

Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala

17 x 24 cm, 320 p., hardback
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The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts’ risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the crafts spiritual and social roots by drawing on oral and written sources.

Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus

Julius Lips und die Geschichte der »Völkerkunde«; Teil 1: Julius Lips, Martin Heydrich und die (Deutsche) Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde; Teil 2: Eva und Julius Lips: Kontexte ihres Wirkens

17 x 24 cm, 440 p., hardback
59.00 €
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When in November 1933 the American anthropologist Leslie Spears responded to a letter by Martin Heydrich, editor of the German academic journal “Ethnologischer Anzeiger”, he stated quite clearly:

“With many colleagues in the United States, I share the feeling that we …

Pastoréalismes

Anthropologie historique des processus d’intégration chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan intérieur

17 x 24 cm, 296 p., hardback
68.00 €
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The book examines the relations between an economic phenomenon, pastoralism, and a social one, patrilineal descent-reckoning. These relations are described and analyzed on the basis of long-term fieldwork and through the investigation of the existing historical and ethnographic sources. By …

Pastoral Morocco

Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity

17 x 24 cm, 268 p., 17 maps, hardback
54.00 €
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Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity …