Recent Publications | Monographs and Edited Volumes | Articles and ContributionsPublications of Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann
Recent Publications
Sharing Knowledge on Entangled Histories and Climate Change Consequences in Oceania. Some Insights from Doing Public Anthropology at the Ethnographic Collection of Göttingen. In: Moritz Pöllath (Hg.): Didaktische Perspektiven auf die Geschichte und Kultur des Pazifiks. Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag, S.137–149.
Climate Mobilities, Rights and Justice: Complexities and Particularities. Frontiers in Climate 4. [DOI]
Climate Change Songs and Emotions: Articulating Agency in the Central Pacific. GISCA Occasional Paper Series 32. [DOI]
Climate Change, Emotions and Religion: Imagining the Future in Central Oceania. In: Elodie Fache, Hannah Fair und Wolfgang Kempf (eds.): Higher Powers. Negotiating Climate Change, Religion and Future in Oceania. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 30 (3), 274–291. [DOI]
Adaptation and the Question of Migration: Directions in Dealing with Climate Change in Kiribati. In: Carola Klöck and Michael Fink (eds.): Dealing with Climate Change on Small Islands: Towards Effective and Sustainable Adaptation? Göttingen: University Press, pp. 293–312. [DOI]
Social Capital in the Face of Climate Change: Voices of Emotional Belonging from Kiribati. GISCA Occasional Paper Series 18. [DOI]
“Prophecy from the Past”: Climate Change Discourse, Song Culture and Emotions in Kiribati. In: Tony Crook and Peter Rudiak-Gould (eds.): Pacific Climate Cultures. Warsaw: De Gruyter Open, 21–33, 160–175 (Bibliography). [DOI] [OPAC]
Climate Change and Worries over Land: Articulations in the Atoll State of Kiribati. In: Eveline Dürr and Arno Pascht (eds.): Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49–73. [DOI] [OPAC]
Climate Change and the Imagining of Migration: Emerging Discourses on Kiribati's Land Purchase in Fiji. The Contemporary Pacific 29 (2), 231–263.
Monographs and Edited Volumes
India Beyond India: Dilemmas of Belonging. Göttingen: University Press. [DOI] [OPAC]
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations. New York: Berghahn Books. [OPAC]
Belonging in Oceania: Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications. New York: Berghahn. [OPAC]
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press in Association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts. [OPAC]
Form, Macht, Differenz: Motive und Felder ethnologischen Forschens. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen. [DOI] [OPAC]
Relations in Multicultural Fiji. Transformations, Positionings and Articulations. Special issue of Oceania 75 (4). [JSTOR]
Lebenswege im Spannungsfeld lokaler und globaler Prozesse. Person, Selbst und Emotion in der ethnologischen Biografieforschung. Münster: LIT-Verlag. [OPAC]
Emotionen und Historizität: Der emotionale Diskurs über die Yali-Bewegung in einer Dorfgemeinschaft der Ngaing, Papua New Guinea. Berlin: Reimer. [OPAC]
Articles in Journals and Contributions to Edited Volumes
Musik und Tanz im Kampf gegen Klimawandel – Verknüpfte Wirkungen von Tanzkleidung in Kiribati. In: Michael Kraus (ed.): Weltenfragmente – Die Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Göttingen: University Press, pp.274–287. [DOI]
Introduction: Dilemmas of Belonging in Indian Diasporas. In: Elfriede Hermann and Antonie Fuhse (eds.): India Beyond India: Dilemmas of Belonging. Göttingen: University Press, pp. 11–24. [DOI]
Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji. In: Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann (eds.): Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 189–208. [OPAC]
Introduction: Movement, Place-making and Cultural Identification: Multiplicities of Belonging. In: Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl (eds.): Belonging in Oceania: Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications. New York: Berghahn, pp. 1–24. [OPAC]
Epilogue. Uncertain Futures of Belonging: Consequences of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in Oceania. In: Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl (eds.): Belonging in Oceania: Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications. New York: Berghahn, pp. 189–213. [OPAC]
The Yali Movement of Papua New Guinea: the Dialogics of Representation. In: Marc Tabani and Marcellin Abong (eds.): Kago, Kastom and Kalja: the Study of Indigenous Movements in Melanesia Today. Marseilles: pacific-credo Publications, pp. 147–168. [DOI]
Empathy, Ethnicity, and the Self among the Banabans in Fiji. In: Douglas W. Hollan and C. Jason Throop (eds.): The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 25–41. [OPAC]
Introduction – Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations. In: Elfriede Hermann (ed.): Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press in Association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts, pp. 1–19. [OPAC]
Ethnizität als transformierbare Ressource: Formung und Gebrauch von ethnischer Identität bei den Banabans. In: Alke Dohrmann, Dirk Bustorf and Nicole Poissonnier (eds.): Schweifgebiete: Festschrift für Ulrich Braukämper. Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 176–183. [OPAC]
Form, Macht und Differenz als Dimensionen kultureller Praxis. In: Elfriede Hermann, Karin Klenke and Michael Dickhardt (eds.): Form, Macht, Differenz: Motive und Felder ethnologischen Forschens. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, pp. 9–26. [OPAC] [DOI]
Communicating with Transculturation.
In: Journal de la Société des Océanistes (125), pp. 257–260. [DOI]
Emotions and the Relevance of the Past: Historicity and Ethnicity Among the Banabans of Fiji. In: Eric Hirsch and Charles Stewart (eds.): Ethnographies of Historicity. Special issue of History and Anthropology 16 (3), 275–291. [DOI] [OPAC]
Introduction to Relations in Multicultural Fiji. The Dynamics of Articulations, Transformations and Positionings. In: Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf (eds.): Relations in Multicultural Fiji. Transformations, Positionings and Articulations. Special issue of Oceania 75 (4), 309–324. [DOI]
Feelings of Connectedness – The Banabans and Their Home Islands. In: Jennifer Shennan and Makin Corrie Tekenimatang (eds.): One and a Half Pacific Islands – Teuana ao Teiterana n aba n Te Betebeke. Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themselves – I-Banaba aika a Karakin oin Rongorongoia. Wellington: Victoria University Press, pp. 128–129.
Reconfigurations of Place and Ethnicity. Positionings, Performances, and Politics of Relocated Banabans in Fiji. In: Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf (eds.): Relations in Multicultural Fiji. Transformations, Positionings and Articulations. Special issue of Oceania 75 (4), 368–386. [DOI]
Dissolving the Self-Other Dichotomy in Western “Cargo Cult” Constructions. In: Holger Jebens (ed.): Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, pp. 36–58. [OPAC]
Emotions, Agency and the Dis/Placed Self of the Banabans in Fiji. In: Toon van Meijl and Jelle Miedema (eds.): Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific. Leiden: KITLV Press, pp. 191–217.
Manifold Identifications Within Differentiations: Shapings of Self among the Relocated Banabans of Fiji. In: Toon van Meijl and Henk Driessen (eds.): Multiple Identifications and the Self. Special issue of Focaal - European Journal of Anthropology 42, 77–88. [OPAC]
Positionierungen des ethnischen Selbst. Autobiografische Assoziationen einer Banaban-Frau in Fiji. In: Elfriede Hermann and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds.): Lebenswege im Spannungsfeld lokaler und globaler Prozesse. Person, Selbst und Emotion in der ethnologischen Biografieforschung. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 79–103. [OPAC]
Einleitung. Persönliche Handlungsmöglichkeiten im lokal-globalen Kontext. In: Elfriede Hermann and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds.): Lebenswege im Spannungsfeld lokaler und globaler Prozesse. Person, Selbst und Emotion in der ethnologischen Biografieforschung. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 1–23. [OPAC]
Dreamscapes: Transcending the Local in Initiation Rites among the Ngaing of Papua New Guinea. In: Roger Ivar Lohmann (ed.): Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 60–85. [OPAC]
Yali. In: John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds.): Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16: 1940–1980, Pik–Z. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, pp. 601.
Kulturelle Differenz via Gender-Differenz: Reflexionen im Kontext von Diskursen der Fiji-Banabans. In: Judith Schlehe (ed.): Interkulturelle Geschlechterforschung. Identitäten – Imaginationen – Repräsentationen. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, pp. 236–250. [OPAC]
T/RÄUME: Überschreitungen des Lokalen in Initiationsriten bei den Ngaing in Papua New Guinea. Kea. Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 13, 91–118. [OPAC]
Geschlechterdiskurs und historische Differenz: Dis/kontinuitäten in den Geschlechterbeziehungen bei den Ngaing in Papua-Neuguinea. In: Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds.): Differenz und Geschlecht. Neue Ansätze in der ethnologischen Forschung. Berlin: Reimer, pp. 78–106. [OPAC]
Kastom Versus Cargo Cult: Emotional Discourse on the Yali Movement in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. In: Ton Otto and Ad Borsboom (eds.): Cultural Dynamics of Religious Change in Oceania. Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, pp. 87–102. [OPAC]
The Yali Movement in Retrospect: Rewriting History, Redefining “Cargo Cult”. In: Andrew Lattas (ed.): Alienating Mirrors: Christianity, Cargo Cults and Colonialism in Melanesia. Special issue of Oceania 63 (1), 55–71. [DOI]