Professor Dr. Helene Basu

Studtstr. 21
48149 Münster

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Academic Education

Habilitation im Fach Ethnologie an der FU Berlin
Promotion im Fach Ethnologie an der FU Berlin
Magister Artium in Ethnologie, Soziologie, Religionswissenschaft an der FU Berlin
Studium in Romanistik, Philosophie, Ethnologie, Soziologie, Religionswissenschaft an der FU Berlin

Positions

Professorin der Ethnologie an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster
Oberassistentin (C2) im Fach Ethnologie an der Freien Universität (FU) Berlin
Gastprofessorin an der University of Iowa (USA)
Gastdozentin am Südasieninstitut der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben im Fach Ethnologie an der FU Berlin
Wissenschaftlöiche Assistentin im Fach Ethnologie an der FU Berlin

External Functions

Mitglied der European Association of Social Anthropology
Mitglied der American Association of Anthropologists
Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde
Teaching
 

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [082873]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: The Dark Side of the Embodied Soul: (Mental) Suffering, Anthropology and the Problem of Evil [082889]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)
  • Seminar: The Dark Side of the Embodied Soul: (Mental) Suffering, Anthropology and the Problem of Evil [082881]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [082885]
    (in cooperation with Dorothea Schulz)
  • Colloquium: Colloquium [082891]

  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [080881]
  • Seminar: Street-level Bureaucrats: Police work on the ground and in the office [080886]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)
  • Seminar: Anthropology of Crime Fiction [080878]
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [080889]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [080882]
    (in cooperation with Patrick Desplat)

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [088873]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Ordering Practices: Representations of Law and its Transgressions [088882]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)
  • Seminar: Ordnungspraktiken: Repräsentationen des Rechts und seine Überschreitungen [088875]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088894]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088879]
    (in cooperation with Patrick Desplat)

  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [086885]
  • Seminar: Crime, Justice and the Disputing Process: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Law [086891]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)
  • Seminar: Narratives of Anthropological Fieldwork: Non-Fictional & Fictional Accounts [086879]
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [086894]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [086886]
    (in cooperation with Patrick Desplat)

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [084872]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm and Dorothea Schulz)
  • Seminar: Translocal Relationships [084888]
    (in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)

  • Lecture: Translokale Begegnungen: Ethnologie in der Region des Indischen Ozeans und der Psychiatrie [082895]
  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [082880]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [082881]
    (in cooperation with Dorothea Schulz)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [082888]

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [080872]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Translocal Relationships [080887]
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [080895]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [080890]
    (in cooperation with Dorothea Schulz)

  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research: Modern Anthropology of India [088880]
  • Practice: Ethnographic methods in a selected research field [088883]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088881]
    (in cooperation with Dorothea Schulz)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088888]

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [086874]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Translocal Relationships: Topics from Economic Anthropology [086887]
  • Practice: Empirische Verfahren [086879]
    (in cooperation with Rudolf Maier)
  • Practice: Empirische Verfahren [086878]
    (in cooperation with Rudolf Maier)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [086897]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [086891]
  • Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium [086885]

  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [084883]
  • Seminar: Ethnographie der Finanzmärkte [084880]
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [084891]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [084884]
    (in cooperation with Barbara Meier)

  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [081075]
  • Seminar: Ethnographie der Finanzmärkte [081071]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [081076]
    (in cooperation with Barbara Meier)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [081083]

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [089063]
    (in cooperation with Andreas Hartmann)
  • Seminar: Writing a Project Proposal [089080]
  • Seminar: Psychiatry in Anthropology [089077]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [089060]

  • Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [087085]
  • Seminar: Ethnologie des Marktes [087081]
  • Seminar: Transformations of Sociality in India: Kinship, Religion, New Middle Class [087090]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [087070]
    (in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [087093]

  • Lecture: Translocal Relationships / Translocality [085098]
  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder einschl. Exkursion [085085]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Research Methods in Social Anthropology [085099]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [085080]
    (in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [085086]
  • Workshop: Workshop [085114]

  • Seminar: Social Structure - Sociocultural Orders [083103]
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [083093]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [083080]
    (in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)
  • Information event: Orientierungsveranstaltung für Erstsemester
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)

  • Lecture: Translocal Relationships: Anthropology of India in the 21st century [088665]
  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder - einschließlich Exkursion [088718]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Research Methods in Social Anthropology [088670]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088646]
    (in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088650]

  • Lecture: Forschungsfelder [088773]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Lecture: Translocal Relationships: Global Mental Health - Local Discourses of Madness and Emotional Distress [088610]
  • Seminar: Media Anthropology in South Asia [088630]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088678]
    (in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088659]

  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088760]

  • Lecture: Translocal relations [088752]
  • Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsbereiche der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [088619]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Forschungsseminar [088839]
  • Colloquium: Master-and PhD-Colloquium [088786]
  • Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088858]

  • Lecture: "Doing KuSA": Perspektiven, Themen, Kontroversen [088663]
  • Seminar: Social Structures in India [088682]
    (in cooperation with Julia Koch)
  • Seminar: Social Structure [088678]
    (in cooperation with Julia Koch)
  • Seminar: Der Sinn des Wahns - Grundlagen der interdisziplinären transkulturellen Psychiatrie [088610]
    (in cooperation with Joscha Kärtner and José-Marie Koussemou)
  • Seminar: Der Sinn des Wahns - Grundlagen der interdisziplinären transkulturellen Psychiatrie [088625]
    (in cooperation with Joscha Kärtner and José-Marie Koussemou)
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088659]

  • Lecture: Translocal relations [088746]
  • Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsgebiete der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [088617]
    (in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)
  • Seminar: Forschungsseminar [088712]
  • Colloquium: Master- and PhD Colloquium [088803]

  • Seminar: Transculturality: Religion and Psychiatry in the Postcolonial World [088843]
    (in cooperation with José-Marie Koussemou)
  • Seminar: Transkulturelle Psychiatrie, Migration und Religion: Interdisziplinäre Dialoge [088839]
    (in cooperation with José-Marie Koussemou)
  • Seminar: Research Themes in Social Anthropology: Methodological Approaches [088771]
  • Colloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [088862]

  • Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsgebiete der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [087810]
    (in cooperation with Christine Aka)
  • Seminar: Forschungsseminar [087900]
  • Seminar: Master-Colloquium [087968]
  • Advanced seminar: "Psycho Movie". Psychiatrie, Film und Geschichte in transkultureller Perspektive [082000]
    (in cooperation with Franz-Werner Kersting)
  • Colloquium: Doktoranden-Kolloquium [088031]

  • Seminar: Multiple Religions in South Asia [088014]
  • Seminar: Psychologische Anthropologie: Selbst, Person, Individuum [088000]
  • Colloquium: Colloquium [088052]

  • Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsgebiete der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [087435]
    (in cooperation with Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann)
  • Seminar: Seminar: Psychiatrie und Sozialanthropologie II [087985]
  • Seminar: Forschungsseminar Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [087928]
  • Colloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [088059]
Projects
Publications

  • , , , , and . . “Einführung.” in Stimmen aus dem Jenseits/Voices from Beyond, edited by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

  • . . “Amtsermächtigungen eines Sufi-Heiligen in Gujarat (Indien).” in Rituale der Amtseinsetzung: Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen, Vol. 11 of Religion und politik, edited by Helene Althoff Gerd Basu. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.
  • Basu, Helene Althoff Gerd, ed. . Religion und politik, Vol. 11, Rituale der Amtseinsetzung: Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.
  • . . “Introduction.” in Madness, Mental Health, Modernity - Madness, Mental Health, Modernity - Psychiatry’s Competition with Religion , edited by Helene Basu, Roland Littlewood and Arne Steinforth.
  • Basu, Helene Littlewood Roland, and Steinforth, Arne, eds. . Madness, Mental Health, Modernity - Psychiatry's Competition with Religion
  • Basu, Helene, and Althoff, Gerd, eds. . Religion und Politik, Vol. 11, Rituale der Amtseinsetzung: Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

  • . . “Listening to disembodied voices: anthropological and psychiatric challenges.” Anthropology & Medicine 21: 15..
  • . in Kürze. “In the Courtroom of Jungle Saints: The Poor and Transcendental Justice.” in The Law of Possession: ritual, healing, and the secular state, edited by William Basu Helene Sax.
  • . in Kürze. “Introduction: The Law of Possession.” in The Law of Possession: ritual, healing, and the secular state, edited by William Basu Helene Sax.
  • Sax, William Basu Helene, ed. in Kürze. The Law of Possession: ritual, healing, and the secular state
  • . . “Dava and Dua. Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness.” in Asymmetrical Conversations. Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutig Boundaries, edited by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack and William Sax. New York: Berghahn Books.
  • . . “Einleitung.” in Rituale der Amtseinsetzung - Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen , edited by Helene Althoff Gerd Basu.
  • . . “Amtsermächtigungen eines Sufi-Heiligen in Gujarat (Indien).” in Rituale der Amtseinsetzung - Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen , edited by Helene Althoff Gerd Basu.
  • Basu, Helene Althoff Gerd, ed. . Religion und Politik, Rituale der Amtseinsetzung - Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

  • , , , , and . . Sozialtheorie, Moderne und Religion : Kontroversen um Modernität und Säkularisierung, edited by Ulrich Willems, Detlef Pollack, Helene Basu, Thomas Gutmann and Ulrike Spohn. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
  • Basu, Helene Jacobsen Knut, and Malinar, Angelika Narayanan Vasudah, eds. . Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Vol. V Boston: Brill.
  • . . “Comments on 'Morality as a Cultural System?' by Thomas Csordas.” Current Anthropology 54 (5): 536–537.
  • . . “Menschen mit MIgrationshintergrund - wer kümmert sich?” Frankfurter Forum für gesellschafts- und gesundheitspolitische Grundsatzfragen 8 (Oktober 2013): 14–19.
  • . . “Transformations of Hierarchy.” in The Many Indias, edited by P. Berger and F. Heidemann. London: Routledge.

  • . . “Ethnologie und die Vervielfältigung von Modernität.” in Kontroversen um die Moderne, edited by Helene Basu, U Willems, T Gutmann, D Pollack and U Spohn.
  • Basu, Helene, Willems, U, Gutmann, T, Pollak, D, and Spohn, U, eds. . Kontroversen um die Moderne Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
  • , , and . . “Social Anthropology and Transcultural Psychiatry: Contextualizing Multi-Disciplinary Contributions to the 'International Conference on Religion, Healing, and Psychiatry, Münster 2012.” contribution to the International Conference on Religion, Healing, and Psychiatry, Münster, Deutschland
  • , , and . . “Spirits of Envy.” DVD. Münster.
  • Jacobson, Knut, Basu, Helene, Malinar, Angelika, and Narayanan, Vasudha, eds. . Brill´s Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Four. Historical Perspectives. Poets, Teachers, and Saints. Relation to other Religions and Traditions. Hinduism and Contemporary Issue Leiden, Boston: Brill.

  • . “Darstellungen der Psychiatrie in indischen Filmen.” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 136: 69–92.
  • Basu, H, Jacobsen, KA, Malinar, A, and Narayanan, V, eds. . Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 3, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Three. Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy Leiden: Brill.

  • Basu, H., Jacobsen, K.A., Malinar, A, and Narayanan, V., eds. . Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, Vol. 2, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Two. Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts Brill.
  • . “Besessenheitskrankheit und Psychiatriereform in der indischen Moderne.” in Prisma und Spiegel. Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft, Argument Sonderband, edited by D. Schulz and J. Seebode. Hamburg: Argument Verlag.
  • . “Possession.” in Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Two. Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts, edited by H. Basu, K.A. Jacobsen, A Malinar and V. Narayanan. Leiden: Brill.
  • . “Ethnologische Aspekte der Migration.” in Praxis der interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie : Migration und psychische Gesundheit, edited by W. Machleidt and A. Heinz. München: Academic Press.
  • . “Navratri Celebrations in Kacchch in the 1990s.” in In The Anthropology of Values. Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer, edited by Hardenberg R. Kattner E. Prager Berger P. and .. Indien: Dorling Kindersley.
  • . “Healing madness through ritual trials.” in In Histories of Intimacy and Situated Ethnography, edited by K. Leonard, G. Reddy and A.G. Gold. Delhi: Manohar.

  • Basu, H, Jacobsen, KA, Malinar, A, and Narayanan, V, eds. . Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism., Vol. 1, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume One. Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities Leiden: Brill.
  • . “Schmutzige Methoden': Geisteskrank durch Besessenheit und schwarze Magie in Gujarat/Indien.” in Un-Reinheit im Kulturvergleich, edited by A. Malinar, M. Vöhler and B. Seidensticker. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
  • . “Gujarat.” in Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, edited by K.A. Jacobson, H. Basu, A. Malinar and V. Narayanan. Leiden: Brill.
  • . “Contested Practices of Control: Psychiatric and Religious Mental Health Care in India.” Curare 32 (1+2): 28–39.
  • . . “Soziale und religiöse Dimensionen von Askese in der Gegenwart.” in Hinduismus Reader, edited by Angelika Malinar. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • . . “Drugs & Prayers – Indian Psychiatry in the Realm of Saints.” DVD. Münster.

  • . . “Music and the formation of Sidi identity in Western India.” History Workshop Journal 65 (1): 161–178. doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbm069.
  • . . “Drumming and praying: Sidi at the Interface between Spirit Possession and Islam.” in Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean, edited by K. Kresse and E. Simpson. London: Columbia University Press.
  • . . “Music and the Formation of Sidi Identity in Western India.” History Workshop Journal 65: 161–178.
  • Basu, Helene, ed. . Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia London, Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
  • . . “Ecstacy.” in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, edited by John Corrigan. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • , , and . . “Daf Music of Yemeni-Habshi in Hyderabad.” in Journeys and Dwellings. Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia, edited by Helene Basu. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
  • . “A Gendered Indian Ocean Site: Mai Mishra, African Spirit Possession and Sidi Women in Gujarat.” in Journeys and Dwellings. Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia, edited by Helene Basu. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
  • . “Introduction.” in Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia, edited by H. Basu. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.

  • . “Cultural Practices of Indian Sidis Through The Prism of Indian Ocean Maritime Connections.” in The Ninth Vasanth J. Sheth Memorial Lecture delivered in Mumbai Vasanth J. Sheth Memorial Foundation.

  • . . “Practices of Praise and Social Constructions of Identity: The Bards of North-West India.” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 50 (130): 81–105.
  • . . “Geister und Sufis: Translokale KOnstellation des Islam in zwei Indian Ocean Settings.” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 130 (2): 230–249.
  • . . “Politics of Travelling in the Postcolonial Indian Oocean World: Sidi Abdula bin Mubarak's 'My Journey to East Africa'.” ZIFF Journal 2: 46–64.

  • . . Von Barden und Königen: Ethnologische Studien zum Gedächtnis und zur Göttin in Kacch (Indien) Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang.
  • . . “Göttin in Indien - Indien als Göttin?” Historische Anthropologie 12 (1): 123–133.
  • . . “Riots.” Historische Anthropologie 12 (2): 228–242.
  • . . “Redefining Boundaries: Twenty Years at the Shrine of Bava Gor.” in Sidis and Scholars – Essays on African India, edited by Edward Alpers and Amy Catlin. Delhi: Rainbow Publishers & Lawrenceville, N.J.
  • . . “Repr. Hierarchy and Emotion: Love, Joy and Sorrow in a CVult of Black Saints in Gujarat, India.” in Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations, edited by John Corrigan.
  • . . “Ritual Communication: The Case of the Sidi in Gujarat.” in Lived Islam in South Asia. SAdaptation, Accomodation and Conflict, edited by Ahmad, Reifeld Imtiaz and Helmut.

  • . . “Slave, Soldier, Trader, Fakir: Fragments of African Histories in Gujarat.” in The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean, edited by Shihan de S Pankhurst Richard Jayasurya.

  • . . “Afro-indische Besessenheitskulte im Vergleich (Sidi-Goma in Indian, Zar in Ostafrika, Candomblé in Brasilien).” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 127 (1): 41–55.
  • . . “Zeitkonzeptionen im kulturellen Gedächtnis des Rajput-Königtums.” in Vom Herrscher zur Dynastie: Die Entstehung kontinuierlicher Zeitrechnung in den Kulturen der Antike und des Orients, edited by Harry Falk. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen.

  • . . “Africans in India : Past and present.” Internationales Asienforum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 2001 (32): 253–274.
  • . . “Globalisation as an Anthropological Problem.” Adivasi 40 (41): 26–34.
  • . . “Die Zusammenkunft der Dichter.” in Tohfa-e-.Dil. Festschrift für Helmut Nespital, edited by Dirk Loenne.

  • . “Theatre of memory: Performances of Ritual Kinship of the African Diaspora in Sindh/ Pakistan.” in Culture, Creation and Procreation in South Asia Practice, edited by A. Rao and B. Monika. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • . . “Localising Memories of Kingship: Paliyo, Chatri and Samadhi in Kacchch.” Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 35: 1–8.
  • . . “Local Concepts of Women Ascetics.” Journal of Social Sciences 4 (Special Issue) (4): 313–321.
  • . . “Göttinnen-Asketinnen: Individualistinnen in Kutch.” in Tradition im Wandel: Weibliche Religiosität im Hinduismus, Jainismus und Buddhismus, edited by K.Guzy L Zinser H Poggendorf-Kakar. Tübingen: Medien Verlag Köhler.

  • . . “Going for Visits with a Woman Fakir: The African Diaspora in Gujarat.” ISIM Newsletter 3 (99): 39..

  • . “Hierarchy and emotion: Love, Joy and Sorrow in a Cult of Black Saints in Gujarat, India.” in Embodying Charisma, edited by P. Werbner and H. Basu. London: Routledge.
  • . . Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality, and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults Routledge.
  • . . “Introduction.” in Embodying Charisma, edited by Helene Werbner Pnina Basu.

  • . . “Muslimische Lachkultur in Gujarat/Indien.” in Kulturen und Innovationen. Festschrift für Wolfgang Rudolph, edited by Georg Elwert, Jürgen Jensen and Ivan Kortt.

  • . . Indus, Vol. 1, Habshi-Sklaven, Sidi-Fakire: muslimische Heiligenverehrung im westlichen Indien Berlin: Verlag Schiler & Mücke.
  • . . “Muslim Shrines as Boudnary Markers of a Cult Region: The Network of Sidi Saints in Western India.” in Pilgrimage: Concepts, Themes, issues, and Methodology, edited by Makhan Jha.

  • . . “Die Heilige und das Weibliche. Geschlechter-KOnstruktionen im indo-muslimischen Sufismus.” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 119: 215–227.
  • . . “Heiligengräber und muslimische Bestattungsrituale im westlichen Indien.” Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 15 (53-60).

  • . . “The Sidi and the Cult of Bava Gor in Gujarat.” Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 28: 289–300.

  • . . “Sidi.” in Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. III, South Asia, edited by Paul Hockings.