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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 [082881]
(in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)- Seminar: The Dark Side of the Embodied Soul: (Mental) Suffering, Anthropology and the Problem of Evil [082889]
(in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [082885]
(in cooperation with Dorothea Schulz)- Colloquium: Colloquium [082891]
- Seminar: The Dark Side of the Embodied Soul: (Mental) Suffering, Anthropology and the Problem of Evil [082881]
- Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [080881]
- Seminar: Anthropology of Crime Fiction [080878]
- Seminar: Street-level Bureaucrats: Police work on the ground and in the office [080886]
(in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [080889]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [080882]
(in cooperation with Patrick Desplat) - Seminar: Anthropology of Crime Fiction [080878]
- 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: Institutscolloquium [088879]
(in cooperation with Patrick Desplat)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088894]
- Seminar: Ordering Practices: Representations of Law and its Transgressions [088882]
- Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [086885]
- Seminar: Narratives of Anthropological Fieldwork: Non-Fictional & Fictional Accounts [086879]
- Seminar: Crime, Justice and the Disputing Process: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Law [086891]
(in cooperation with Yassin Gaber)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [086894]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [086886]
(in cooperation with Patrick Desplat) - Seminar: Narratives of Anthropological Fieldwork: Non-Fictional & Fictional Accounts [086879]
- Lecture: Forschungsfelder [084872]
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm and Dorothea Schulz)- Seminar: Translocal Relationships [084888]
(in cooperation with Yassin Gaber) - Seminar: Translocal Relationships [084888]
- Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [082880]
- Lecture: Translokale Begegnungen: Ethnologie in der Region des Indischen Ozeans und der Psychiatrie [082895]
- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [082888]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [082881]
(in cooperation with Dorothea Schulz) - Lecture: Translokale Begegnungen: Ethnologie in der Region des Indischen Ozeans und der Psychiatrie [082895]
- 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) - Seminar: Translocal Relationships [080887]
- 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]
- Practice: Ethnographic methods in a selected research field [088883]
- Lecture: Forschungsfelder [086874]
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)- Seminar: Translocal Relationships: Topics from Economic Anthropology [086887]
- Practice: Empirische Verfahren [086878]
(in cooperation with Rudolf Maier)- Practice: Empirische Verfahren [086879]
(in cooperation with Rudolf Maier)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [086897]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [086891]
- Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium [086885]
- Seminar: Translocal Relationships: Topics from Economic Anthropology [086887]
- Lecture: Areas and Regions of Social Anthropological Research [084883]
- Seminar: Ethnographie der Finanzmärkte [084880]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [084884]
(in cooperation with Barbara Meier)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [084891]
- Seminar: Ethnographie der Finanzmärkte [084880]
- 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]
- Seminar: Ethnographie der Finanzmärkte [081071]
- Lecture: Forschungsfelder [089063]
(in cooperation with Andreas Hartmann)- Seminar: Psychiatry in Anthropology [089077]
- Seminar: Writing a Project Proposal [089080]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [089060]
- Seminar: Psychiatry in Anthropology [089077]
- 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: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [087093]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [087070]
(in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp) - Seminar: Ethnologie des Marktes [087081]
- Lecture: Forschungsfelder einschl. Exkursion [085085]
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)- Lecture: Translocal Relationships / Translocality [085098]
- Seminar: Research Methods in Social Anthropology [085099]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [085080]
(in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [085086]
- Workshop: Workshop [085114]
- Lecture: Translocal Relationships / Translocality [085098]
- Seminar: Social Structure - Sociocultural Orders [083103]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [083080]
(in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [083093]
- Information event: Orientierungsveranstaltung für Erstsemester
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm) - Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [083080]
- Lecture: Forschungsfelder - einschließlich Exkursion [088718]
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)- Lecture: Translocal Relationships: Anthropology of India in the 21st century [088665]
- Seminar: Research Methods in Social Anthropology [088670]
- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088650]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088646]
(in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp) - Lecture: Translocal Relationships: Anthropology of India in the 21st century [088665]
- 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: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088659]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088678]
(in cooperation with Josephus Platenkamp) - Lecture: Translocal Relationships: Global Mental Health - Local Discourses of Madness and Emotional Distress [088610]
- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088760]
- Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsbereiche der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [088619]
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)- Lecture: Translocal relations [088752]
- Seminar: Forschungsseminar [088839]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088858]
- Colloquium: Master-and PhD-Colloquium [088786]
- Lecture: Translocal relations [088752]
- Lecture: "Doing KuSA": Perspektiven, Themen, Kontroversen [088663]
- Seminar: Social Structure [088678]
(in cooperation with Julia Koch)- Seminar: Social Structures in India [088682]
(in cooperation with Julia Koch)- Seminar: Der Sinn des Wahns - Grundlagen der interdisziplinären transkulturellen Psychiatrie [088625]
(in cooperation with Joscha Kärtner and José-Marie Koussemou)- Seminar: Der Sinn des Wahns - Grundlagen der interdisziplinären transkulturellen Psychiatrie [088610]
(in cooperation with Joscha Kärtner and José-Marie Koussemou)- Colloquium: Master- and PhD-Colloquium [088659]
- Seminar: Social Structure [088678]
- Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsgebiete der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [088617]
(in cooperation with Elisabeth Timm)- Lecture: Translocal relations [088746]
- Seminar: Forschungsseminar [088712]
- Colloquium: Master- and PhD Colloquium [088803]
- Lecture: Translocal relations [088746]
- Seminar: Research Themes in Social Anthropology: Methodological Approaches [088771]
- 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)- Colloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [088862]
- Seminar: Transculturality: Religion and Psychiatry in the Postcolonial World [088843]
- 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: Forschungsseminar [087900]
- Seminar: Psychologische Anthropologie: Selbst, Person, Individuum [088000]
- Seminar: Multiple Religions in South Asia [088014]
- Colloquium: Colloquium [088052]
- Seminar: Multiple Religions in South Asia [088014]
- Lecture: Wissens- und Anwendungsgebiete der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [087435]
(in cooperation with Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann)- Seminar: Forschungsseminar Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [087928]
- Seminar: Seminar: Psychiatrie und Sozialanthropologie II [087985]
- Colloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [088059]
- Seminar: Forschungsseminar Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie [087928]
Projects
- Internationale Studien- und Ausbildungspartnerschaft Münster Grahamstown/Südafrika ab 2018 ()
Individual Granted Project: DAAD - Internationale Studien- und Ausbildungspartnerschaften | Project Number: 57406896 - SFB 1150 - Teilprojekt A06: Soziale Praktiken und mediale Narrative matrimonialen Entscheidens in Indien ()
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Sonderforschungsbereich | Project Number: SFB 1150/1 - EXC 212 B2-2 - The Voice as a medium of popular religiosity in India: Religious Pluralism and Practices of Social Distinction ()
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Exzellenzcluster - EXC 212 - Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures ()
Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Exzellenzcluster | Project Number: EXC 212/2 - Summer School „European Campus of Intercultural Perspectives" – ECIP ()
Scientific Event: Teilnahmebeiträge/Tagungsgebühren, Münster Graduate School of Evolution - Diversifizierung von Mental Health - Therapeutische Orte des brasilianischen Spiritismus ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1400/6-1 - Tagung (SFB): Mythen und Narrative des Entscheidens ()
Own Resources Project - Studien- und Ausbildungspartnerschaft mit der Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Südafrika ()
Participation in other joint Project: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | Project Number: 57166587 - Vergabe eines Stipendiums zum Zwecke der Dissertation an Jerome Mariadhasan ()
Individual Granted Project: Provinzial der Schweizer Pallottiner - Contemporary Indian Cultures and Economies - Interdisciplinary Discourses in Cooperation with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai ()
Individual Granted Project: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | Project Number: 57255404 - A New Passage to India: Flexible Mobilitätsförderung 2015 - Contemporary Indian Cultures and Economies - Interdisciplinary Discourses in Cooperation with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai ()
Participation in other joint Project: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - Indo-German International Conference "Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" – DtInTg ()
Scientific Event: DFG - Internationale Kooperationsanbahnung | Project Number: FL 933/1-1 - Diversifizierung von Mental Health - Therapeutische Orte des brasilianischen Spiritismus ()
Own Resources Project - Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann? - Förderung der Identitätsbildung und des Rollenverständnis bei Jungen und Mädchen in der Migrationsgesellschaft: durch Trainings zur Interkulturellen Kompetenz mit dem Schwerpunkt Geschlechterrollen ()
Individual Granted Project: Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge | Project Number: 26250 20244 - A New Passage to India_Fehl ab 13 (Modern Indian Cultures and Economies - Interdis. Coop. with TISS) ()
Participation in other joint Project: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | Project Number: 56048502 - Visiting professorship of Prof. Dr. Kamala Ganesh ()
Participation in other joint Project: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | Project Number: 56268760 - EXC 212 C12 - Mental Health at the Interface of Religion and Politics in Contemporary India ()
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Exzellenzcluster - EXC 212 - Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures ()
Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Exzellenzcluster - Kooperation mit Tata Institute of Social Science Mumbai A New Passage to India ()
Participation in other joint Project: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | Project Number: Z 50017137 - Wahnsinn/Psychische Krankheiten als umstrittenes Feld? ()
Individual Granted Project: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung - Projektförderung - Conference "Religion, Healing and Psychiatry" ()
Scientific Event: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung - Tagungsförderung | Project Number: 20.11.0.085 - Interkulturelle Streitschlichter: Interkulturelle Kompetenz als Schlüsselqualifikation in der Ausbildung von Jugendlichen als Multiplikatorinnen und Multiplikatoren in der Stadtteilarbeit ()
Individual Granted Project: Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend | Project Number: 2625000451/PF-LP-07N
Publications
- Basu, Helene, Große Kracht, Klaus, Hoeps, Reinhard, Sieg, Christian, and Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina. . “Einführung.” in Stimmen aus dem Jenseits/Voices from Beyond, edited by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Basu, Helene Littlewood Roland. . “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.
- Basu, Helene. . “Listening to disembodied voices: anthropological and psychiatric challenges.” Anthropology & Medicine 21: 15..
- Basu, Helene. 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.
- Sax, William Basu Helene. 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
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Althoff, Gerd Basu Helene. . “Einleitung.” in Rituale der Amtseinsetzung - Inaugurationen in verschiedenen Epochen, Kulturen, politischen Systemen und Religionen , edited by Helene Althoff Gerd Basu.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Willems, U, Spohn, U, Pollack, D, Gutmann, T, and Basu, H. . 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.
- Basu, Helene. . “Comments on 'Morality as a Cultural System?' by Thomas Csordas.” Current Anthropology 54 (5): 536–537.
- Basu, Helene. . “Menschen mit MIgrationshintergrund - wer kümmert sich?” Frankfurter Forum für gesellschafts- und gesundheitspolitische Grundsatzfragen 8 (Oktober 2013): 14–19.
- Basu, Helene. . “Transformations of Hierarchy.” in The Many Indias, edited by P. Berger and F. Heidemann. London: Routledge.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Basu, Helene, Grube, Nina, and Steinforth, Arne. . “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
- Basu, Helene, Samland, Andreas, and Khare, Chitra. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “Gujarat.” in Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, edited by K.A. Jacobson, H. Basu, A. Malinar and V. Narayanan. Leiden: Brill.
- Basu, H. . “Contested Practices of Control: Psychiatric and Religious Mental Health Care in India.” Curare 32 (1+2): 28–39.
- Basu, Helene. . “Soziale und religiöse Dimensionen von Askese in der Gegenwart.” in Hinduismus Reader, edited by Angelika Malinar. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Basu, Helene. . “Drugs & Prayers – Indian Psychiatry in the Realm of Saints.” DVD. Münster.
- Basu, H. . “Music and the formation of Sidi identity in Western India.” History Workshop Journal 65 (1): 161–178. doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbm069.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, Helene Malinar Angelika. . “Ecstacy.” in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, edited by John Corrigan. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Basu, H., Schwerin, K.v, and Minda, A. . “Daf Music of Yemeni-Habshi in Hyderabad.” in Journeys and Dwellings. Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia, edited by Helene Basu. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, H. . “Introduction.” in Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia, edited by H. Basu. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
- Basu, H. . “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.
- Basu, Helene. . “Practices of Praise and Social Constructions of Identity: The Bards of North-West India.” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 50 (130): 81–105.
- Basu, Helene. . “Geister und Sufis: Translokale KOnstellation des Islam in zwei Indian Ocean Settings.” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 130 (2): 230–249.
- Basu, Helene. . “Politics of Travelling in the Postcolonial Indian Oocean World: Sidi Abdula bin Mubarak's 'My Journey to East Africa'.” ZIFF Journal 2: 46–64.
- Basu, Helene. . 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.
- Basu, H. . “Göttin in Indien - Indien als Göttin?” Historische Anthropologie 12 (1): 123–133.
- Basu, H. . “Riots.” Historische Anthropologie 12 (2): 228–242.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Basu, Helene. . “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.
- Basu, Helene. . “Afro-indische Besessenheitskulte im Vergleich (Sidi-Goma in Indian, Zar in Ostafrika, Candomblé in Brasilien).” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 127 (1): 41–55.
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