Heike Behrend

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Heike Behrend (born May 27, 1947 in Stralsund ) is a German ethnologist and Africanist .

Career

She studied ethnology , sociology and religious studies in Munich , Vienna and Berlin . After graduating from the Free University of Berlin with a master's degree in ethnology (1973), she trained in film from 1980 to 1984 at the Berlin Film and Television Academy. In 1987 she completed her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis Space, Time and Ritual at the Tugen in northwestern Kenya and completed her habilitation in 1992 at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Bayreuth with the text War in the NorthUganda . The Alice Lakwena Holy Spirit Movement .

She taught at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin, in Bayreuth and Mainz . After a visiting professorship in 1993 at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris , she was appointed professor at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in May 1994 .

She led various research projects on popular culture in Africa and the relationship between religion , war and violence. As part of the research college “Media and Cultural Communication” at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn and Aachen , she was one of the founders of the newly formed media anthropology .

Ethnographically she worked mainly in East Africa , Kenya and Uganda ; she had the opportunity to do shorter research stays and trips to Burkina Faso , the Ivory Coast , Nigeria , Ghana , Tanzania , Senegal , Mali and Namibia .

As part of various visiting professorships and senior fellowships, she taught again in 1997 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, and in 2003 at the “Program of African Studies (PAS)” at Northwestern University, Evanston , Ill., USA; In 2007 she conducted research at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna and in 2010 at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan .

As part of her research on photographers and photographic practices in Africa, she also worked as a curator from 1998 to 2000. Together with Tobias Wendl she curated the exhibition Snap me one! Studio photographer in Africa in the Munich City Museum , in the City Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach and in the Tropen-Museum Amsterdam ; and in 2010 she was the curator of the Photography as a Dream Machine exhibition . Popular African Photographers at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies . Heike Behrend has lived and worked in Berlin since she retired in 2012 .

Prices

  • In 1987 she received the Ernst Reuter Prize in Berlin for her dissertation.
  • In 2012, her book Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda in England was nominated for the Amory Talbot Prize. (The prize is awarded within the subject “African Anthropology”).
  • 2021 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair (category: non-fiction / essay writing ) for the incarnation of a monkey
  • In 2021, her publication Human Becoming a Monkey was nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize.

Writings and filmography

Books

  • 1985. The time of fire. Man and woman at the Tugen in East Africa , Frankfurt (Qumran).
  • 1987. Time goes crooked ways. Space, time and ritual at the Tugen in Kenya , Frankfurt ( campus) .
  • 1993. Alice and the Ghosts. War in Northern Uganda , Munich (Trickster).
  • Translated into French: La guerre des esprits en Ouganda 1985-1996 , Paris (Harmattan) 1997.
  • Translated into English: Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits. Was in Northern Uganda 1986-97 , Oxford (James Currey) 1998.
  • 2011. Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda , Oxford (James Currey Publishing House)
  • 2013. Contesting Visibility. Photographic Practices and the “Aesthetics of Withdrawal” along the East African Coast , Bielefeld ( Transcript ).
  • 2020. Incarnation of a monkey. An autobiography of ethnographic research , Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95757-955-3 .

Selected essays

  • 1979. On the ethnography of others, in: Berliner Hefte 12, 18-23.
  • 1983. Time goes crooked ways. At the Tugen in East Africa, in: Kursbuch , 73, Berlin, 97-103.
  • 1988. Incarnation of a monkey. Comments on gender relations in ethnographic field research, in: Anthropos 84, 555-564.
  • 1990. Return of the stolen pictures. An attempt on "wild" film theories , in: Anthropos 85, 564-570.
  • 1993. War as an uprising of nature. The Holy Spirit Movement and the Forces of Nature in Northern Uganda, in: Anthropos 88, 39-46.
  • 1993. The war of the spirits, in: Lettre 21, 39-42.
  • together with Claude Meillassoux. 1994. War in Rwanda, in: Lettre 26, 12-15.
  • 1998. Ham Mukasa is amazed. Comments on an African's trip to England (1902), in: Afrikaner write back. Texts and pictures by African ethnographers , Heike Behrend and Thomas Geider (Hg), Cologne, 323-338.
  • 1998. Popular photography and the construction of an African modernism, in: "Snap me one": Studio photographers in Africa , Tobias Wendl and Heike Behrend (Hg), Munich.
  • 1999. Imaginary journeys. The Likoni Ferry Photographers in Mombasa / Kenya, in: Photo History , 71, 25-34.
  • 2000. Photography as a dream machine. Photographic Practices in Kenya and Uganda, in: Portrait Africa. Photographic Positions of a Century, House of World Cultures (Hg), Berlin, 68-73.
  • 2000. "Feeling Global": The Likoni Ferry Photographers in Mombasa, Kenya, African Arts , 33, 3, 70-77.
  • 2001. You are what you eat. On the Eucharist and its variations: cannibals and catholics in western Uganda, in: Kursbuch 143, Berlin, 167-183.
  • 2002. "Flying machines into the hereafter". Ghost archives in an intercultural comparison, in: Archive processes. The communication of storage , Hedwig Pompe and Leander Scholz (Hg), Cologne, 84-99.
  • 2002. Photo Magic. Photographs in practices of healing and harm in East Africa, in: Fotogeschichte , 84, Irene Albers and Thomas Hausschild (eds), 3-12.
  • 2003. "Call and Kill": On the enchantment and disenchantment of western technical media in Africa, in: Signals of Disruption, Erhard Schüttpelz and Albert Kümmel (Hg), Cologne: Dumont , 287-300.
  • 2004. Seelenklau: On the history of an intercultural transfer, in: Seele. Multiple rooms, Johannes Bilstein, Matthias Winzen (eds.), Baden-Baden: Verlag für modern art Nuremberg, 72-79.
  • 2004. "Satan crucified": Internal terror and catharsis in Tooro, Western Uganda, in: Historische Anthropologie, 12, 2, 211-227.
  • 2006. The power of metamorphosis: Spirit media and the media of spirits in Africa, in: Metamorphoses. Archeology of literary communication IX, Aleida and Jan Assmann (eds), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 143-154.
  • 2007. The Rise of Occult Powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda, in: Journal of Religion in Africa, 37, 41-57.
  • 2008. Politics of the face in the field of tension between the ban on images and popular photography on the east coast of Kenya, in: Movens Bild. Between Evidence and Affect, Gottfried Böhm, Birgit Mersmann, Christian Spies (eds), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 326-343.
  • 2010. Electricity, Spirit mediums and the Media of Spirits, in: Ludwig Jäger, Erika Linz, Irmela Schneider (eds), Media, Culture and Mediality. New Insights into the Current State of Research, Bielefeld (transcript) , 187-200.
  • 2011. "The Titanic in Kano": Video, Gender and Islam in Northern Nigeria, in: Gender and Islam in Africa, Margot Badran (ed.), Stanford ( Stanford University Press ), 173-189.
  • 2013. The fabric of the social: Textiles and photography in Africa, in: Woven Identities. African textiles and photographs from the Weickmann and Walther collections, Ulm, Ulmer Museum , 58-76.
  • 2015. Beyond the Methods: Chance and Conflict in Ethnographic Media Research, in: Handbuch der Medienethnografie, Cora Bender and Martin Zillinger (eds), Berlin (Reimer Verlag), 1-16.
  • 2015. "Celebrating Life": The Construction of Photographic Biographies in Funeral Rites among Kenyan Christians, in: The African Photographic Archive. Research and Curatorial Strategies, Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury (eds), Leiden (Brill), 77-93.
  • 2018. “Photography as Unveiling”: Muslim Discourses and Practices along the East African Coast, in: Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita and Marie Rodet (eds), Religion, Media and Marginality in Modern Africa, Athens, Ohio UP, 112-132.
  • 2018. Incarnation of a monkey: attempting an autobiography of ethnographic research, in: Paideuma, 64, 7-26.
  • 2019. Photographic Practices and the “Aesthetics of Withdrawal” among Muslims of the East African Coast, in: Figurations and Sensations in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, eds. Birgit Meyer and Terje Stordalen, London, 185-197.

Edited books

  • Heike Behrend and Thomas Geider (eds). 1998. Africans are writing back. Texts and pictures by African ethnographers, Cologne (Rüdiger Köppe).
  • Heike Behrend and Tobias Wendl (eds). 1998. "Snap me one": Studio photographers in Africa, Munich (Prestel).
  • Heike Behrend and Ute Luig (eds). 1999. Spirit Possession, Power, and Modernity in Africa, Oxford (James Currey).
  • Heike Behrend and Jean-Francois Werner (eds). 2001. Photography and Modernity in Africa, Visual Anthropology , 14, 3, special issue.
  • Heike Behrend (ed.). 2001. Spirit, image and fool. On an ethnology of cultural conversions. Festschrift for Fritz Kramer, Berlin: Philo Verlag .
  • Heike Behrend (ed.). 2003. LT Rubongoya, Naaho Nubo. The Ways of our Ancestors, Africans Write Back Series, Vol. 1, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  • Heike Behrend (ed.). 2004. MW Magezi, TE Nyakango, MK Aganatia, The People of the Rwenzoris. The Bayira (Bakonzo / Banande) and Their Culture, Africans Write Back Series, Vol. 2, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  • Heike Behrend, Anja Dreschke and Martin Zillinger (Eds), 2015. Trance Mediums and Technical Media. Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction, New York (Fordham).
  • Heike Behrend and Tobias Wendl (eds). 2015. 9/11 and its Remediations in Africa, Berlin (Lit).

Filmography

  • 1982 "In the belly of the elephant". An ethnographic film about old age and death among the virtues in Kenya. Camera: Hille Sagel
  • 1985 "Conversations with Kopcherutoi". In this ethnographic film, an old woman named Kopcherutoi tells of her life in the Tugen Mountains in Kenya. Camera: Hille Sagel and Heike Behrend
  • 1989 "Mary Akatsa, Prophetess". An ethnographic film about a healer and prophetess in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Camera: Ingo Krati
  • 2011 "Satan Crucified. A Catholic Witch Hunt in Western Uganda", camera: Armin Linke

TV interview

  • with Alexander Kluge on "From cannibals and catholics in western Uganda", broadcast December 21, 2002, Vox .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulla Bock: Pioneering work: The first female professors for women's and gender studies at German-speaking universities 1984-2014 . Campus Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50301-1 ( google.de [accessed on May 11, 2020]).
  2. ↑ "Alice and the Ghosts". War in northern Uganda, 1986–1991 at Exsila.ch. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Heike Behrend - AMESA. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Fellow - Heike Behrend - IFK. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Von Basic_777: 1999 SNAP ME ONE Studio Photographers in Africa - Museum Abteiberg. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Herta Wolf: Show and / or Prove ?: Photography as a cultural technique and a medium of knowledge . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-048764-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 11, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Prize winners 1985 - 1989. April 4, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Prize winners: inside 2021. In: Leipzig Book Fair. Retrieved May 28, 2021 .
  9. ↑ German Non-Fiction Prize 2021 The Nominees , accessed on April 11, 2021
  10. ^ Non-fiction / essay writing - nominations for the price of the Leipzig Book Fair 2021. In: preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de. Retrieved April 13, 2021 .
  11. ↑ The time of fire: Man and woman with the Tugen in East Africa (Edition Qumran) by Behrend, Heike: (1985) | medimops. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 9783593338507: Time goes crooked ways: space, time and ritual at the Tugen in Kenya (campus research) - ZVAB - Behrend, Heike: 3593338505. Retrieved on May 11, 2020 .
  13. ↑ "Alice and the Ghosts" (Heike Behrend) - Buy used book - A02hNTih01ZZZ. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  14. ^ Heike Behrend - biography, publications (livres, articles). Retrieved May 11, 2020 (French).
  15. ↑ Boydell & Brewer: Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Resurrecting Cannibals. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Resurrecting Cannibals. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  18. ↑ IN THE BELLY OF THE ELEPHANT | DFFB. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  19. ↑ TALKS WITH KOPSCHERNTOI | DFFB. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  20. ↑ MARY AKATSA, prophetess - Freiburg Film Forum. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  21. ↑ SATAN CRUCIFIED | Heike Behrend | November 26, 2015 - Temporary Gallery. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Behrend, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund