Publications
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Women in Kararau - Gendered Lives, Works, and Knowledge in a Middle Sepik Village, Papua New Guinea
(2019)
The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles ...
Zur Funktion und Bedeutung kognitiver Metaphern in Hermann Hesses Märchen - Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der China-Symbole
(2020)
Hermann Hesse erlangte von Beginn seines literarischen Schaffens an viel Beachtung. Es gibt zahlreiche Monographien und wissenschaftliche Aufsätze über seine Werke, die meisten konzentrieren sich auf das traditionelle ...
Motherhood and the Law
(2019)
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood ...
Fluchtmigration aus Syrien - Eine biographietheoretische und figurationssoziologische Studie
(2019)
The armed conflict in Syria which began in 2011, caused one of the largest refugee movements in the context of collective violence and war since World War II. Those who fled during the complex, increasingly violent and ...
Die große Vormundschaftsreform - 16. Göttinger Workshop zum Familienrecht 2018
(2019)
This volume brings together the presentations of the 16th Göttingen Workshop on Family Law held on 19 October 2018, which dealt with the latest proposals of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection on the ...
Richard Falck, Mykologe - Lebensweg und Werk eines jüdischen Gelehrten (1873-1955)
(2019)
Erzählt wird die Geschichte eines Mannes jüdischer Herkunft, der in Breslau seine Begeisterung für die Mykologie entdeckte und schon nach sehr kurzer Zeit zu den Besten seines Faches gehörte. Als zentraler Quellenbestand ...
Umstrittene Sammlungen - Vom Umgang mit kolonialem Erbe aus Kamerun in ethnologischen Museen Die Fälle Tange/Schiffschnabel und Ngonnso‘/Schalenträgerfigur in Deutschland und Kamerun
(2019)
How is the handling of contested “objects” from the German colonial era shaped in ethnological Museums in Germany and Cameroon? This ethnographic study connects, for the first time, approaches from ethnology, (international) ...
Devotional Cross-Roads
(2019)
The collection of essays presented in “Devotional Cross-Roads: Practicing Love of God in Medieval Gaul, Jerusalem, and Saxony” investigates test case witnesses of Christian devotion and patronage from Late Antiquity to the ...
Ausgezeichnet!
(2016)
Article descriptions such as “Allgäuer Emmentaler,” “Dresdner Christstollen” or “Bayerisches Bier” do not simply name culinary products, but locate them in certain regions and link them to memories and associations. They ...
Taste | Power | Tradition - Geographical Indications as Cultural Property
(2017)
The idea of origin in terms of space and culture as a special indicator of quality is one of the most influential strands in contemporary food. It impacts on politics, economics and everyday life – and it connects these ...
(De)formierte Körper 2 - Die Wahrnehmung und das Andere im Mittelalter
(2014)
In der Kultur des Mittelalters nehmen Körper in ihrer äußeren Zeichenhaftigkeit eine zentrale Stellung ein. Dies gilt insbesondere für deformierte Körper, die aufgrund ihrer auffälligen Andersartigkeit immer wieder Thema ...
Präventive Tendenzen in Staat und Gesellschaft zwischen Sicherheit und Freiheit - Ein deutsch-japanisches Symposium Ehrenpromotion von Keiichi Yamanaka
(2014)
How can the tension between security and personal freedom be solved in the risk society of today? This publication discusses exemplary problems and develops solutions at the level of constitutional law, public international ...
Kommunikation und Kulturtransfer im Zeitalter der Personalunion zwischen Großbritannien und Hannover - "to prove that Hanover and England are not entirely synonymous"
(2014)
Mit der Krönung von Georg Ludwig, Kurfürst von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Hannover), zum englischen König Georg I. am 31. Oktober 1714 verschoben sich die politischen Kräfteverhältnisse in Europa. Die Personalunion hatte ...
Youth at the crossroads - Discourses on socio-cultural change in post-war Northern Uganda
(2014)
Based on eleven months of field work (2009-2011), this book analyzes the situation of youth in urban Gulu, Northern Uganda, in the aftermath of the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government (1986-2006). ...
"Spongy, slimy, cosy & more" - Commemorative Volume in Celebration of the 60th Birthday of Joachim Reitner
(2014)
This volume contains papers presented in part at a symposium held in May 2012 at Göttingen University, to honour Professor Joachim Reitner for his numerous contributions to the fields of geobiology, geology, and palaeontology. ...
Wilde und verweigerte Bilder - Untersuchungen zur literarischen Medialität der Figur um 1200
(2014)
Sprache besitzt eine ihr innewohnende Bildmacht, sie evoziert bei ihrem Rezipienten unwillkürlich Vorstellungsbilder. Dies gilt besonders für poetische Sprache. Unter Einbezug rezeptionsästhetischer Ansätze zeigt die Studie ...
Das "Janusgesicht" der Menschenwürde
(2014)
This book documents the inaugural public lecture of Honorary Professor Dr. Murad Erdemir, held on May 28th 2014 in the auditorium of the University of Göttingen. Murad Erdemir is the Vice Director and General Counsel in ...
Familiale Tradierungsprozesse in einer Drei-Generationen-Perspektive - Kontinuierliche Veränderungen - veränderliche Kontinuitäten
(2014)
In this qualitative study, familial mediation and appropriation processes are examined in a three-generation perspective, taking into account the in-family development of social development processes in two neighboring ...
Capability as a Yardstick for Flexicurity
(2014)
Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work ...
Ludwig Prandtl - A personal biography drawn from memories and correspondence
(2014)
When Ludwig Prandtl took up the Chair of Applied Mechanics at Göttingen University in 1904, the small university town became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Not only did Prandtl found two research ...