Publications of Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann

Recent Publications | Monographs and Edited Volumes | Articles and Contributions

Recent Publications

2024.
Elfriede Hermann, Hans Reithofer and Christiane Falck:
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.

2022.
Carol Farbotko, Fanny Thornton, Monika Mayrhofer and Elfriede Hermann:
Climate Mobilities, Rights and Justice: Complexities and Particularities. Frontiers in Climate 4. [DOI]

2021.
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf:
Climate Change Songs and Emotions: Articulating Agency in the Central Pacific. GISCA Occasional Paper Series 32. [DOI]

2020.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2019.
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf:
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]

2018.
Elfriede Hermann:
Social Capital in the Face of Climate Change: Voices of Emotional Belonging from Kiribati. GISCA Occasional Paper Series 18. [DOI]

2018.
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf:
“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]

2017.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2017.
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf:
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

2018.
Elfriede Hermann and Antonie Fuhse (eds.):
India Beyond India: Dilemmas of Belonging. Göttingen: University Press. [DOI] [OPAC]

2017.
Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann (eds.):
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations. New York: Berghahn Books. [OPAC]

2014.
Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl (eds.):
Belonging in Oceania: Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications. New York: Berghahn. [OPAC]

2011.
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. [OPAC]

2009.
Elfriede Hermann, Karin Klenke and Michael Dickhardt (eds.):
Form, Macht, Differenz: Motive und Felder ethnologischen Forschens. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen. [DOI] [OPAC]

2005.
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf (eds.):
Relations in Multicultural Fiji. Transformations, Positionings and Articulations. Special issue of Oceania 75 (4). [JSTOR]

2003.
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. [OPAC]

1995.
Elfriede Hermann:
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


2024
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf
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]


2018.
Elfriede Hermann and Antonie Fuhse:
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]

2017.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2014.
Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl and Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2014.
Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2013.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2011.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2011.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2010.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2009.
Michael Dickhardt, Karin Klenke and Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2007.
Elfriede Hermann:
Communicating with Transculturation.
In: Journal de la Société des Océanistes (125), pp. 257–260. [DOI]

2005.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2005.
Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf:
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]

2005.
Elfriede Hermann and Taiman Tebitaki Kokoria:
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.

2005.
Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2004.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2004.
Elfriede Hermann:
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.

2003.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2003.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2003.
Elfriede Hermann and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler:
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]

2003.
Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2002.
Elfriede Hermann:
Yali. In: John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds.): Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16: 1940–1980, Pik–Z. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, pp. 601.

2001.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

2000.
Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann:
T/RÄUME: Überschreitungen des Lokalen in Initiationsriten bei den Ngaing in Papua New Guinea. Kea. Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 13, 91–118. [OPAC]

1998.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

1997.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]

1992.
Elfriede Hermann:
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]