
Karin Polit
Publikationen
Im Druck
(& Brosius, Christiane) Heritage Rituals or Rituals of Heritage? Performance, Identity and Commodification on National and International Stages. Routledge: New Delhi.
Im Druck
"Heritage, Art and Elections: Popular Culture, Ritual and Political Competition in Uttarakhand." In: Brosius und Polit (Hg.). Heritage Rituals or Rituals of Heritage? Performance, Identity and Commodification on National and International Stages. Routledge: New Delhi.
2012
Women of Honour: Gender and Agency among Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan.
2011
& Christiane Brosius (Hg.). Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual; Vol. IV Reflexivity, Media, and Visuality; Section II: Ritual and Media. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
2011
"Was sind eigentlich Rituale? William Robertson Smith sucht Antworten". In: Heidle, Alexandra (Hg.). Die bunte Welt der Rituale (Kinderbuch). Heidelberg.
2010
"From Ritual Ground to Stage". (mit F. Dubois, E. de Maaker and M. Riphagen) In: Grimes, Ronald et. al. (Hg.). Ritual, Media, and Conflict. Oxford University Press: New York: 37-75.
2009
"Staging Ritual Heritage: How Rituals Become Theatre in Uttarakhand, India." In: Brosius, Christiane & Ute Hüsken (Hg.). Ritual matters. Dynamic dimensions in practice. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge.
2008
"Pilgrimages: Hinduism – Gender and sexuality". In: Encyclopaedia of Gender, Religion and Sexuality.
2008
"Performing heritage through rituals. The case of Uttarakhand". In: Nielsen, Bent Flemming & Bent Holm & Karen Vedel (Hg.). Religion, Ritual, Theatre. Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Lang: 107-120.
2007
"The Consequences of Ritual Failure: A Garhwali case study". In: Hüsken, Ute (Hg.). When Rituals go wrong. Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual. Leiden, Boston: Brill (Numen book series 115): 199-208.
2006
Keep My Share of Rice in the Cupboard: Ethnographic Reflections on Practices of Gender and Agency among Dalit women in the Central Himalayas. Dissertation an der Fakultät für Verhaltens- und Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg.
2006
"The Effect of Marginality on People’s Well Being: An Ethnographic encounter among Dalits of the Central Himalayas". In: Ecks, S. und W. S. Sax (Hg.). The Ills of Marginality. London: Carfax.
2005
& Oliver Razum & Nuriye Sahin-Hodoglugil. "Health, wealth or family ties? Why Turkish work migrants return from Germany: Qualitative study with re-migrants in Turkey". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31/4: 719-739.
2005
"The Effects of Inequality and Relative Marginality on the Well-being of Low Caste People in Central Uttaranchal". Anthropology & Medicine 12/3: 225-237.