Functions within the Cluster/Membership in projects and groups:
- Principal Investigator
- Head of the Project C12 Mental Health at the Interface of Religion and Politics in Contemporary India
- Member of the study group "Emic and etic Perspektives on Religion and Politics"
- Member of the study group "Modernity"
Curriculum Vitae:
| since 04/2006 | Professor of Anthropology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster |
| 08/2003-12/2003 | Visiting Associate Professor, University of Iowa (USA) |
| 04/2002-07/2002 | Visiting Fellow, South East Asia Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| 11/2001-04/2006 | Associate Professor of Anthropology, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin |
| 12/1999-10/2001 | Lecturer in Anthropology, FU Berlin |
| 10/1993-11/1999 | Research Assistant, FU Berlin |
| 10/1996-05/2001 | Postdoctoral Degree (Habilitation) in Anthropology, FU Berlin |
| 05/1989-06/1993 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Anthropology, FU Berlin |
| 07/1985 | Master of Arts in Anthropology, Sociology, Religious Studies, FU Berlin |
| 10/1976-7/1985 | Studies in Romance Languages and Literature, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, and Religious Studies, FU Berlin |
Memberships:
| 2003-2011 | European Association of Social Anthropology |
| 2001-2009 | American Association of Anthropologists |
| 2001-2005 | German Society for Ethnology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde) |
Film produCtion:
Basu, Helene “Drugs & Prayers – Indian Psychiatry in the Realm of Saints”, Münster 2009
Publications (Selection):
- Possession, in: idem, K. A. Jacobsen, A. Malinar and V. Narayanan (eds.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Leiden et al. 2010, pp. 416-426.
- Besessenheitskrankheit und Psychiatriereform in der indischen Moderne, in: D. Schulz and J. Seebode (eds.), Prisma und Spiegel. Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft. Festschrift für Ute Luig, Hamburg 2010, pp. 195-209.
- Healing Madness through Ritual Trials, in: K. I. Leonard, G. Reddy and A. G. Gold (eds.), Histories of Intimacy and Situated Ethnography, Delhi 2010, pp. 215-238.
- Soziale und religiöse Dimensionen von Askese in der Gegenwart, in: A. Malinar (ed.), Hinduismus Reader. Studium Religionen, Göttingen 2009, pp. 148-160.
- Contested Practices of Control: Psychiatric and Religious Mental Health Care in India, in: Curare, vol. 32 (2009), pp. 28-39.
- Music and the Formation of Sidi Identity in Western India, in: Oxford History Workshop Journal (2008), pp. 161-178.
- (ed.) Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia, Hyderabad 2008.
- (with A. Malinar) Ecstasy, in: J. Corrigan, Handbook of Religion and Emotion, New York 2007, pp. 402-429.
- Von Barden und Königen. Ethnologische Studien zum Gedächtnis und zur Göttin in Kacch (Indien), Frankfurt a. M. 2004.
- Practices of Praise and Social Constructions of Identity: The Bards of North-West India. In: Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, vol. 130 (2005), pp. 81-106.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Helene BasuInstitute for Ethnology
Studtstraße 21
D-48149 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-27311
Fax: +49 251 83-27313
hbasu_01@uni-muenster.de
