{"title":"Women in Kararau","authors":"Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin","doi":"10.17875/gup2019-1206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1206","url":null,"abstract":"ISSN: 2199-5346 Br ig itt a Ha us er -S ch äu bl in W om en in K ar ar au T book o ers 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 among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women’s lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, the translation of a 1977 publication in German, is complemented by two chapters dealing with the life of the Iatmul in the 2010s. It presents rich quantitative and qualitative data on subsistence economy, marriage, and women’s knowledge concerning myths and rituals. Besides, life histories and in-depth interviews convey deep insights into women’s experiences and feelings, especially regarding their varied relationships with men in the early 1970s. Since then, Iatmul culture has changed in many respects, especially as far as the economy, religion, knowledge, and the relationship between men and women are concerned. In her aerword, the anthropologist Christiane Falck highlights some of the major topics raised in the book from a 2018 perspective, based on her own fieldwork which she commenced in 2012. Thus, the book provides the reader with detailed information about gendered lives in this riverine village of the 1970s and an understanding of the cultural processes and dynamics that have taken place since.","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124714029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilität und Zeitgestaltung","authors":"Antonie Fuhse","doi":"10.17875/gup2021-1604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2021-1604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129131710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The History of Indians in Zanzibar from the 1870s to 1963","authors":"S. Wahab","doi":"10.17875/gup2022-2188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2022-2188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122561800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Der prekäre Park","authors":"B. Volk","doi":"10.17875/gup2019-1129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1129","url":null,"abstract":"ISSN: 2199-5346 Bi an ca V ol k D er p re kä re P ar k Der grenzüberschreitende Nationalpark W liegt in Westafrika im Dreiländereck von Benin, Burkina Faso und Niger. 1927 unter französischer Kolonialherrschaft gegründet, erfolgte 2002 die Ausrufung zum ersten grenzüberschreitenden Biosphärenreservat Afrikas. Trotz diverser partizipativer Maßnahmen der Parkverwaltung gefährden Feldbau, grenzüberschreitende mobile Weidewirtschaft (Transhumanz), Wilderei und Holzeinschlag den Nationalpark. Konflikte um die Nutzung von Land und anderen kritischen Ressourcen entstehen insbesondere in der überregulierten Pufferzone. Dieses Buch fragt, wie Über wachungseinheiten in diesem Kontext operieren. Es beschreibt typische Situationen des Zusammentreffens zwischen Parküberwachung und lokalen Akteuren in drei unterschiedlichen Arenen: der Kernzone des Parks, dem Anrainerdorf und lokalen politischen Foren. Die dichten Fallstudien verdeutlichen die konfliktreichen Prozesse, in denen die Idee „Nationalpark“ von Akteuren der Parkverwaltung und ihren lokalen Mitarbeitern in den Kontext der Baumwollstadt Banikoara übersetzt wird und wie der Nationalpark in diesen Prozessen zu einer lokalen Bedeutung gelangt. Das Buch, das auf einer vierzehnmonatigen Feldforschung zwischen 2008 und 2010 basiert, setzt neue Impulse für die Weiterentwicklung partizipativer Ansätze in Ressourcenschutzgebieten und benennt die Herausforderungen staatlichen Handelns im Spannungsfeld von Ressourcenschutz und cash crop-orientierter ländlicher Entwicklungspolitik.","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130816472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"„Individual Pieties“ und „Non-Pieties“","authors":"R. Loimeier","doi":"10.17875/gup2022-2040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2022-2040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130864307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Collapse of a Pastoral Economy","authors":"S. Mhajida","doi":"10.17875/gup2019-1143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133752997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspiring to the Good Life in Seoul","authors":"Carolin Landgraf","doi":"10.17875/gup2021-1612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2021-1612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124977301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religiöser Wandel in muslimischen Gesellschaften","authors":"","doi":"10.17875/gup2022-2042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2022-2042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114463578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunesien","authors":"R. Loimeier","doi":"10.1163/9789004337862_lgbo_com_200775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337862_lgbo_com_200775","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130254492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Kunst zu leben","authors":"Wiebke Grimmig","doi":"10.17875/gup2022-1861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2022-1861","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324669,"journal":{"name":"Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126855441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}