Wissenschaftliche Literaturcultural studiesSoziologie

Migration, Politics, Violence and Women‘s Studies

SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse

The development of science, research and technology depends on international knowledge transfer. Because of that, the studies that technical and natural sciences have done in collaboration with social and human sciences are inevitable in order to find solutions to the current social problems and to meet the expected needs. [...]

A Handbook of the Minorities of Armenia

A Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Survey. In collaboration with Garnik Asatrian, Viktoria Arakelova, Vardan Voskanian, and others

SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse

The „Handbook of the Minorities of Armenia“ presents the results of a project funded by the German VolkswagenStiftung in the years 2012-2016. The Handbook aims at a comprehensive sociocultural and sociolinguistic survey of the minorities in the Republic of Armenia. Even though Armenia is generally considered to be marked for a rather homogenous ethnic composition,…

Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania

The Jinn Fly on Friday

Fern/Sehen: Perspektiven der Sozialanthropologie

This account embeds Swahili spirit possession and Islamic healing rituals into its particular geographical, cultural and historical context. It gives an overview of the historical development of the syncretistic Muslim-Swahili littoral in East Africa. A special emphasis is put on Afro-Arab history in relation to the development of Swahili culture and…