Articles

Reports and Comments

Joachim G. Piepke: Nachruf auf Hugo Huber (1919–2014) 613
Heiner Rindermann: Georg W. Oesterdiekhoffs Ansatz der strukturgenetischen Soziologie und kulturvergleichenden Forschung. Ein Rezensionsartikel 617
Belkacem Belmekki: Shah Walyi Allah Dehlavi’s Attempts at Religious Revivalism in South Asia 621
Maja Nazaruk: “Fifty Islands That I Have Never Seen and Never Set Foot on.” On the Importance of Bronislaw Malinowski for Comparative Literature 626
Mathias Alubafi Fubah: Title Cups and Ancestral Presence in the Bambui fondom, Cameroon Grassfields 633
Waldemar Cudny: The Phenomenon of Festivals. Their Origins, Evolution, and Classifications 640

Book Reviews

Adams, Vincanne: Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith. New Orleans in the Wake of Katerina (Amy Bellone Hite) 657
Alber, Erdmute: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel. Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehörigkeit in Westafrika (Katja Werthmann) 658
Anderhandt, Jakob: Eduard Hernsheim, die Südsee undviel Geld. Biographie (James N. Bade) 659
Bell, Joshua A., Alison K. Brown, and Robert J. Gordon (eds.): Recreating First Contact. Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture (Beate Engelbrecht) 660
Biebuyck, Daniel P. (ed.): Sherungu Muriro. Mémoires d’ un Nyanga (Carine Plancke) 663
Bierschenk, Thomas, Matthias Krings und Carola Lentz(Hrsg.): Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert (Thomas Reinhardt) 664
Bittles, Alan H.: Consanguinity in Context (Eva-Maria Knoll) 665
Boissevain, Jeremy: Factions, Friends, and Feasts. Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean (Tom Selwyn) 666
Bollig, Michael, Michael Schnegg, and Hans-Peter Wotzka (eds.): Pastoralism in Africa. Past, Present, and Future (Katherine Homewood) 667
Bossert, Federico, y Diego Villar: Hijos de la selva –Sons of the Forest. La fotografía etnográfica de Max Schmidt– The Ethnographic Photography of Max Schmidt (María Susana Cipolletti) 668
Buyandelger, Manduhai: Tragic Spirits. Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia (Judith Hangartner) 669
Chapman, William: A Heritage of Ruins. The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation (Victor T. King) 671
Cleall, Esme: Missionary Discourses of Difference. Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840–1900 (T. O. Beidelman) 672
Combès, Isabelle: Kuruyuki (Diego Villar) 673
Curtis, Marie Yvonne: À la rencontre des Nalu. Arts de la côte de Guinée (Claude Rivière) 675
Deimel, Claus (Hrsg.): Abhandlungen und Berichte der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen(Antje Gunsenheimer) 676
De Jong, Nanette: Tambú. Curaçao’s African-CaribbeanRitual and the Politics of Memory (Gert J. Oostindie) 678
Emmerich, Alexander: Die Indianer Nordamerikas. Geschichte, Kultur, Mythos (Dagmar Siebelt) 678
Erazo, Juliet S.: Governing Indigenous Territories. Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Patrick C. Wilson) 679
Farrington, Ian: Cuzco. Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World (Elmo León Canales) 681
Fedele, Anna, and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds.): Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices. Anthropological Reflections (Jay Johnston) 683
Frederiksen, Martin Demant: Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia (Perry Sherouse) 684
Fry, Douglas P. (ed.): War, Peace, and Human Nature.The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views (Stephen P. Reyna) 685
Halbmayer, Ernst: Contemporary Carib-Speaking Amerindians. A Bibliography of Social Anthropological and Linguistic Resources (Harald Grauer) 686
Hall, Alexandra: Border Watch. Cultures of Immigration, Detention, and Control (D. J. Berchem) 687
Hastrup, Kirsten, and Karen Fog Olwig (eds.): Climate Change and Human Mobility. Global Challenges to the Social Sciences (Lioba Rossbach de Olmos) 689
Hawley, Michael (ed.): Sikh Diaspora. Theory, Agency,and Experience (Othmar Gächter) 692
Hess, Sabine, Johannes Moser und Maria Schwertl(Hrsg.): Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methodenund Konzepte (Philipp Budka) 694
Hirth, Kenneth G., and Joanne Pillsbury (eds.): Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World (Arthur A. Demarest) 696
Hodder, Ian (ed.): Archaeological Theory Today (Gregory G. Monks) 697
Holmes, Seth M.: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Alexander Rödlach) 699
Holten, Lianne: Mothers, Medicine, and Morality in Rural Mali. An Ethnographic Study of Therapy Management of Pregnancy and Children’s Illness Episodes (Isabelle Lorraine Lange) 700
Jackson, Sarah E.: Politics of the Maya Court. Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period (Susan D. Gillespie) 701
Joseph, Suzanne E.: Fertile Bonds. Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley (Dawn Chatty) 702
Juris, Jeffrey S., and Alex Khasnabish (eds): Insurgent Encounters. Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political (Raúl Acosta-García) 703
Kan, Sergei: A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country. Vincent Soboleff in Alaska (Daniel Monteith) 705
Kiefer, Renate, und Lenelotte Möller: Die großen Redender Indianer (Dagmar Siebelt) 705
Kirmse, Stefan B.: Youth and Globalization in Central Asia. Everyday Life between Religion, Media, and International Donors (Morgan Y. Liu) 706
Koch, Sabine, und Burkhard Koch: Aborigines gestern und heute. Gesellschaft und Kultur im Wandel der Zeiten(Rafaela Mückler-Liendl) 707
Köhler, Ulrich: San Pablo Chalchihuitán in Chiapas, Mexiko.Bd. 3. Mythen, Erzählungen und ethnographische Berichte auf Tzotzil und Deutsch über Weltbild und Religion(Brigitte Wiesenbauer) 708
Konvalinka, Nancy: Gender, Work, and Property. An Ethnographic Study of Value in a Spanish Village (JulianeMüller) 710
Korom, Frank J. (ed.): The Anthropology of Performance. A Reader (Harald Grauer) 712
Krasberg, Ulrike: “Hab ich vergessen, ich hab nämlich Alzheimer!” Beobachtungen einer Ethnologin in Demenzwohngruppen(Claus Deimel) 713
Lange, Christoph: Beduinität und Authentizität im syrischen Fernsehdrama. Eine medienethnologische Analyseam Beispiel der Serie Finğān ad-Dam (Gebhard Fartacek) 715
Lentz, Carola: Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa (Allan C. Dawson) 717
Lockyer, Joshua, and James R. Veteto (eds.): Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia. Bioregionalism,Permaculture, and Ecovillages (Peter Bille Larsen) 718
Luehrmann, Sonja: Secularism Soviet Style. Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic (Justine Buck Quijada) 718
Lynch, Caitrin, and Jason Danely (eds.): Transitions and Transformations. Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (Judith Freidenberg) 719
McNicholl, Geoffrey, John Bongaarts, and Ethel P.Churchill (eds.): Population and Public Policy. Essays inHonor of Paul Demeny (Stuart Basten) 720
Mauss, Marcel: Handbuch der Ethnographie (Brigitte Wiesenbauer) 721
Meyer-Krentler, Leonie: Die Idee des Menschen in derKaribik. Mensch und Tier in französisch- und spanischsprachigen Erzähltexten des 19. Jahrhunderts (MartinaMeidl) 722
Mohr, Adam: Enchanted Calvinism. Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (Candy Gunther Brown) 724
Mückler, Hermann (Hrsg.): Österreicher in der Südsee. Forscher, Reisende, Auswanderer (James N. Bade) 725
Nakamaki, Hirochika, and Mitchell Sedgwick (eds.): Business and Anthropology. A Focus on Sacred Space (Nancy Rosenberger) 726
Nicholls, Robert Wyndham: The Jumbies’ Playing Ground. Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masqueradesin the Eastern Caribbean (Philip W. Scher) 728
Penny, H. Glenn: Kindred by Choice. Germans and American Indians since 1800 (Markus H. Lindner) 729
Pérez Amores, Grecy: Sin monte sigue habiendo Palo.Orishas en Tenerife (Lioba Rossbach de Olmos) 730
Pilco Paz, Enrique: Musiciens, religion et société dansles Andes au XXe siècle (Pérou). Des voix dans la pénombre(Juan Javier Rivera Andía) 732
Poser, Anita von: Foodways and Empathy. Relatednessin a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea (Tom Bratrud) 733
Raikhel, Eugene, and William Garriott (eds.): Addiction Trajectories (Susan J. Shaw) 734
Reid, Jennifer: Finding Kluskap. A Journey into Mi’kmawMyth (Anne-Christine Hornborg) 736
Roberts, Allen F.: A Dance of Assassins. Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo (Yolanda Covington-Ward) 737
Roy, Babul: Zeme Naga. From Polytheism to Monotheism.An Anthropological Account of Religion Transformation (Arkotong Longkumer) 738
Schackt, Jon: A People of Stories in the Forest of Myth. The Yukuna of Miritiparaná (Laurent Fontaine) 739
Schwarz, Nick (ed.): The Politics of Give and Take. The 2012 Papua New Guinea National Election (RolandSeib) 740
Sebald, Peter: Die deutsche Kolonie Togo 1884–1914. Auswirkungen einer Fremdherrschaft (Hans Peter Hahn) 742
Suzuki, Nanami (ed.): The Anthropology of Aging and Well-Being. Searching for the Space and Time to Cultivatea Life Together (Jason Danely) 743
Taylor, Julie J.: Naming the Land. San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia’s West Caprivi (Steven Van Wolputte) 744
Trautmann, Thomas R., and Peter M. Whiteley (eds.):Crow-Omaha. New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis (Doug Jones) 745
Van Ess, Josef: Im Halbschatten. Der Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892–1971) (Edwin P. Wieringa) 746
Vaughan, Umi: Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance. Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba (Tanya L. Saunders) 747
Wagner, Anja: The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism. Making Place in the Indian Himalayas (Richard Axelby) 748
Wassmann, Jürg, Birgit Träuble, and Joachim Funke(eds.): Theory of Mind in the Pacific. Reasoning across Cultures (Edward D. Lowe) 749
Wilson, Mary Beth: Impacts of Participatory Development in Afghanistan. A Call to Reframe Expectations. The National Solidarity Programme in the Community of Shah Raheem (Katja Mielke) 751
Worsley, Peter, S. Supomo, Thomas Hunter, and Margaret Fletcher (eds.): Mpu Monaguṇa’s Sumanasāntaka. An Old Javanese Epic Poem, Its Indian Source and Balinese Illustrations (Edwin P. Wieringa) 752
Zucker, Eve Monique: Forest of Struggle. Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia (Peg Le Vine) 753

October 2014

 

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