Heike Behrend

Domaine de recherche

l'Afrique

Pays de résidence

Allemagne

Titre

Professor

Affiliation

Universitat zu Köln, Germany

Adresse électronique

heike.behrend@uni-koeln.de

Adresse

Institut für Afrikanistik
Universitat zu Köln
50923
Köln
Germany

Téléphone/Télécopie

phone: 0049-221-4702708
fax: 0049-221-4705158

Pays de spécialisation

Uganda

Recherche

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.

Enseignement

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).

Mots-clés

religion ; war ; media ; history of anthropology.