Heike Behrend

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Germany
Title	Professor
Affiliation	Universitat zu Köln, Germany
Email	heike.behrend@uni-koeln.de
Mailing Address	Institut für Afrikanistik Universitat zu Köln 50923 Köln Germany
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 0049-221-4702708 fax: 0049-221-4705158
Countries of Specialization	Uganda
Research Interests	Research and teaching in the fields of anthropology of religion (especially spirit possession) and war in Africa, media anthropology and history of anthropology. Various recent publications on local photographic practices in Africa and on cannibalism on the background of the eucharist.
Teaching Interests	Research and teaching in the fields of anthropology of religion (especially spirit possession) and war in Africa, media anthropology and history of anthropology.
Publications	Alice and the spirits, war in northern Uganda. Munich, 1993. (Published in French in 1997 ; Forthcoming in English, 1999 from James Currey, Oxford) Heike Behrend and Tobias Wendl (eds.), Snap me one! African studio photographers. Munich, 1998. (Forthcoming in English, 1999).
Keywords	religion ; war ; media ; history of anthropology.