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Monographs

1986
Five Approaches to the Theory of Divine Kingship and the Kingship of the Shilluk of the Southern Sudan. (D. Phil. thesis) Oxford: Bodleian Library.

1995b
Twinned Beings: Kings and Effigies in Southern Sudan, East India and Renaissance France. Gothenburg: Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology.

1997    
Die Dschungelkönige: Ethnohistorische Aspekte von Politik und Ritual in Südorissa/Indien. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

2002    
The Jungle Kings: Ethnohistorical Aspects of Politics and Ritual in Orissa. Delhi: Manohar.

2008    
Tanzen für Kali: Ethnographie eines ostindischen Ritualtheaters. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.

Edited Volumes

2001a
Jagannath Revisited: Society, Religion and the State in Orissa (with H. Kulke). Delhi: Manohar Publishers.

2001b
Hundert Jahre Die Traumdeutung: Träume im Kulturvergleich. Köln: Köppe Verlag.

2005
When Darkness Comes: Steps toward an Anthropology of the Night (with E. Ben-Ari). In Paideuma 51: 153-265.

2006
The Making and Unmaking of Differences: Anthropological, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives. Münster: Transcript Verlag. (with R. Rottenburg and S. Shimada)

2009
Multiple Identities in Action: Mauritius and the Antillean Parallelism. Berlin: Peter Lang. (with R. Ludwig).

2009b
Handlung und Leidenschaft. Jenseits von action und passio. Berlin: Paragrana. (with K.-P. Köpping and C. Wulf)

2011    
Orient - Orientalistik – Orientalismus. Geschichte und Aktualität einer Debatte. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag (with Gunnar Brands and Hanne Schönig)

2013    
Kultur all inclusive. Identität, Tradition und Kulturerbe im Zeitalter des Massentourismus. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. (with Felix Girke and Eva-Maria Knoll)

2017
Connectivity in Motion. Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (with Edward A. Alpers)

Articles

1987a
Max Weber’s Theory of Charisma and its Applicability in Anthropological Research. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. XVIII, no.1: 26-48.

1988a
In Quest of Life: Hocart’s Scheme of Evolution from Ritual Organization to Government. Archives Européennes de Sociologie, vol. XXIX, no. 1: 165-187.

1988b
Shilluk Royal Ceremonies of Death and Installation. Anthropos, vol. 83: 433-452.

1990a
Shilluk Kingship: Power Struggles and the Question of Succession. Anthropos, vol. 85: 105-123.

1990b
Corporations, Personhood, and Ritual in Tribal Society. Three Interconnected Topics in the Anthropology of Meyer Fortes. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. XXI, no. 1: 1-31.

1991
Continuity Despite and Through Death: Regicide and Royal Shrines among the Shilluk of Southern Sudan. Africa, vol. 61, no.1: 40-70.

1992
The Nandapur Suryavamshis: Origin and Consolidation of a South Orissan Kingdom. Orissa Historical Research Journal, vol. 38. 170-199.

1993a
Der König und seine Göttin: Ritual und Politik in Südorissa, Indien. Mitteilungen der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, vol. 61: 3-13.

1993b
Die Schutzgöttinnen: Tribale Gottheiten in Südorissa (Indien) und ihre Patronage durch hinduistische Kleinkönige. Anthropos 88: 337-350.

1994a
Goddesses, Kings, and Tribals: Remarks on the Ritual Policy of a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom. Man in Society, vol. 8: 19-36.

1994b
Little Kingdoms Reconsidered. Occasional Papers, vol. 5. Bhubaneswar: Utkal University, Department of Anthropology.

1995
Durga and the King: Ethnohistorical Aspects in the Politico-Ritual Life of a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (Man) vol. 1: 145-166.

1996
The Hindu King’s Authority Reconsidered: Durga-Puja and Dasara in a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom. In Political Rituals, by A. Boholm (ed.). Gothenburg: Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, pp. 126-157.

1997
E.E. Evans-Pritchard. In Klassiker der Religionswissenschaft, by A. Michaels (ed.). München: C. H. Beck, pp. 303-323.

1998a
Der Raub der Göttin: Rituelle Inszenierungen von Macht und Autorität in Orissa. In Ethnologie und Inszenierung: Ansätze zur Theaterethnologie, by M. Münzel and B. Schmidt (eds.). Marburg: Curupira, pp. 459-488.

1998b
How to Chase a Rainbow, or: Steps Toward a Typology of the Fool. In Games of Gods and Man: Essays in Ritual Performance, by K.-P. Köpping (ed.). Münster: Lit-Verlag, pp. 56-78.

1999
Ethnologie und Geschichte: Stationen der Standortbestimmung aus der britischen „Social Anthropology“. Historische Anthropologie, vol. 7: 110-128.

2000a
Der Körper im ‚Tanz der Strafe’ in Orissa. In Im Rausch des Rituals: Gestaltung und Transformation der Wirklichkeit in körperlicher Performanz, by K.-P. Köpping and U. Rao (eds.). Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 141-156.

2000b Die Umkehrung des Blicks: Zur Akkommodierung von ‚Inauthentischem‘ in festlichen Inszenierungen in Japan und Indien. (with K.-P. Köpping.) In Die Inszenierung von Authentizität, by E. Fischer-Lichte and I. Pflug (eds.). Tübingen: Francke Verlag, pp. 275-297.

2001a
Introduction. In Schnepel (ed.) 2001a: 1-24. (with H. Kulke)

2001b
Kings and Rebel Kings: Rituals of Incorporation and Dissent in South Orissa. In Schnepel (ed.) 2001a: 271-295.

2001c
Blurred Genres: The Internal Dynamics of the ‘Dance of Punishment’ in Orissa. In Adivasi 39: 12-34.

2001d
Ethnologische Betrachtungen zur Wahrnehmung und Wahrmachung von Träumen. In Wahrnehmung und Medialität, by E. Fischer-Lichte, C. Horn, S. Umathum and M. Warstatt (eds.). Tübingen: Francke Verlag, pp. 233-253.

2001e
Einleitung: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven in der Traumforschung. In Schnepel (ed.) 2001b, pp. 7-30.

2001f
Die Politik der Träume: Somnambule Wege zur Macht in Ostindien. In Schnepel (ed.) 2001b, pp. 198-216.

2001g
Narren: Versuch einer Typologie. In Geist, Bild, Narr. Zu einer Ethnologie kultureller Konversionen, by H. Behrend (ed.). Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 97-118.

2002a
The Story of the Fowler: Popular Hinduism in Orissa. In Adivasi 40: 12-25.

2003a
Anekdoten über Anekdoten. In Performativität und Ereignis, by E. Fischer-Lichte (ed.). Tübingen: Francke Verlag, pp. 149-162.

2003b
Königsmord. In Ritualität und Grenze, by E. Fischer-Lichte et al (eds.). Tübingen: Francke Verlag, pp. 177-191.

2003c
Die Staubstrafe: Ein ostindisches Sühneritual. In Ritual, by Zirfas and Wulf (eds.). Paragrana 12: 133-157.

2004a
Inder in der Fremde. In Großmacht Indien, by R.P. Das (ed.) Halle: Orientwissen-schaftliche Hefte 1/2004, pp. 119-145.

2004b
History of the Model. In Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia, by G. Berkemer and M. Frenz (eds.). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, pp. 11-20. (with G. Berkemer)

2004c
The Stolen Goddess. Ritual Enactments of Power and Authority in Orissa. In Sharing Sovereignty: The Little Kingdom in South Asia, by G. Berkemer & M. Frenz (eds.). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, pp. 165-180.

2004d Facing the Trial by Fire Every Day: Text and Performative Context in South Orissa. In Text and Context in the History, Literature and Religion of Orissa, by A. Malinar, J. Beltz and H. Freese (eds.). Dehli: Manohar, pp. 239-272.

2005a Kings and Tribes in East India, In The Character of Kingship, by D. Quigley (ed.). Oxford: Berghahn Publishers, pp. 187-208.

2005b The ‘Dance of Punishment’: Transgression and Punishment in an East Indian Ritual. In Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in the Anthropological Study of Culture, by U. Rao and J. Huthnyk (eds.). Oxford: Berg Publications, pp. 115-127

2005c
Introduction. ‘When Darkness Comes’: Steps towards an Anthropology of the Night. In Schnepel (ed.) 2005: 153-164 (with E. Ben-Ari).

2005d
“In Sleep a King…”: The Politics of Dreaming in a Cross-cultural Perspective. In Schnepel (ed.) 2005: 209-222.

2005e
Inder auf Reisen. In Bewegliche Horizonte: Festschrift für Bernhard Streck, by K. Lange and K. Geisenhainer (eds). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, pp. 165-184.

2006a
Bilder vom Séga: Inszenierungen von Authentizität auf Mauritius. In Performance im medialen Wandel, by P.M. Meyer (ed.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp. 463-497. (with Cornelia Schnepel)

2006b Strangers in the Night: The Making and Unmaking of Differences from a Perspective of the Anthropology of the Night. In Schnepel (ed. 2006). Münster: Transcipt Verlag, pp. 123-144.

2006c
Jagannath: Eine ostindische Gottheit im Spannungsfeld politischer Machtkämpfe, In Kulturelle VerWandlungen: Die Gestaltung sozialer Welten in der Performanz, by U. Rao (ed.). Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 239-262.

2007
Die “autonome Person“ im Kulturvergleich. In Menschformung in religiösen Kontexten, by M. Hettling und M. Müller (eds.). Göttingen: V & R. Unipress, pp 161-177.


band 004 Schnepel.pdf (3.8 MB)  vom 03.02.2015

2009a
Die Globalisierung des Strandes. Das Beispiel Mauritus. In Zwischen Aneignung und Verfremdung. Ethnologische Gratwanderungen, by Gottowik, Volker, Jebens, Holger und Editha Platte (eds.) 2008: 489-509 (with Cornelia Schnepel).

2009b
Some Ideas on Communication, Culture and Society in Mauritius: Multiple Identities in Action. In Multiple Identities in Action: Mauritius and Some Antillean Parallelisms, by V.Y. Hookoomsing, R. Ludwig and B. Schnepel (eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 9- 15 (with R. Ludwig).

2009c
The Mauritian Séga: Performing Identity in a Multi-cultural Setting. In
Multiple Identities in Action: Mauritius and Some Antillean Parallelisms, by V.Y Hookoomsing, R. Ludwig and B. Schnepel (eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 275-286 (with Cornelia Schnepel)

2009d
Two Beaches: The Globalization of Mauritian Waterfronts. In Multiple Identities in Action: Mauritius and Some Antillean Parallelism, by V.Y. Hookoomsing, R. Ludwig and B. Schnepel (eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 287-317.

2009e
Zur Dialektik von agency und patiency. In Handlung und Leidenschaft. Jenseits von actio und passio, by K.-P. Köpping, B. Schnepel and C. Wulf (eds.). Berlin: Paragrana, pp. 15-22.

2010     
Die drei Körper des Königs. In Herrscherkult und Heilserwartung, by Jan Assmann and Harald Strohm (eds.) München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp.177-197.

2011a  
Neu-Orient-ierungen. In Orient - Orientalistik – Orientalismus. Geschichte und Aktualität einer Debatte, by Burkhard Schnepel, Gunnar Brands and Hanne Schönig (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 7-14 (with Gunnar Brands and Hanne Schönig).

2011b  
Verschlungene Wege in den Orient und zurück: Ein Prolog. In Orient - Orientalistik – Orientalismus. Geschichte und Aktualität einer Debatte, by Burkhard Schnepel, Gunnar Brands and Hanne Schönig (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 15-28.

2011c
Tourismus. In Lexikon der Globalisierung, by Fernand Kreff, Eva-Maria Knoll, Andre Gingrich (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 377-380.

2011d
From Slave to Touris Entertainer. Performative Negotiations of Identity and Difference in Mauritius. In Islanded Identities. Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity, by Maeve McCuscer and Anthony Soares (eds.); Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 119-138 (with Cornelia Schnepel).

2012a  
Tanzen bis zum Umfallen. Schuld und Sühne in einem ostindischen Ritualtheater. In Enhancement oder die Verbesserung des Menschen: Die zweite Evolution?, by O. Bender, S. Kanitscheider and A.J. Treml, A. K. (eds.). Norderstedt: BoD, pp. 107-126.

2013a
Danda Nata. In Kulke, Hermann (ed.), Imaging Odisha, vol. 2. New Delhi: Prafulla, pp. 155-158.

2013b
Kulturerbe im Zeitalter des Massentourismus. Eine programmatische Einführung. In Kultur all inclusive. Identität, Tradition und Kulturerbe im Zeitalter des Massentourismus, by Burkhard Schnepel, Felix Girke und Eva-Maria Knoll (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 21-44.

2013c
Zur Stofflichkeit religiöser Erfahrungen. „Idolatrie“ in Ostindien. In Orakel und Offenbarung. Formen göttlicher Willensbekundung, by Jan Assman and Harald Strohm (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 77-98.

2014a
Contact Zone. Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India. In Asian Ethnology 73: 234-257.

2014b
Piracy in the Indian Ocean (ca. 1680-1750). In Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 160: 1-26. Halle: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

2015a
The Little Kingdom in South Asia: History of the Model - with Georg Berkemer. In Interrogation Political Systems. Integrative Processes and States in Pre-Modern India, by Bhairabi Prasad Sahu and Hermann Kulke, New Delhi: Manohar, 123-137.

2015b
Gedanken zu einer Geschichte der Nacht. In Dekonstruieren und doch erzählen. Polnische und andere Geschichten. by Jürgen Heyde, Karsten Holstke, Dietlind Hüchtker, Yvonne Kleinmann und Katrin Steffen (eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 209-216.

2017
The Making of a Hub Society: Mauritius' Path from Port of Call to Cyber Island. In Connectivity in Motion. Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World. by Burkhard Schnepel and Edward A. Alpers (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 231-257.

Reviews/Notes/Etc.

1983
Recent Research in the Southern Sudan. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. XIV, no. 3: 337-341.

1986
Review of Kingship and Sacrifice, by V. Valeri. JASO, vol. XVII, no. 2: 169-170.

1987
Review of Essays on Individualism, by L. Dumont. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. XVIII, no. 3: 289-292.

1988
Review of How Natives Think, by L. Lévy-Bruhl. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. XIX, no. 1: 77-79.

1989
Review of Die Zeit geht krumme Wege. Raum, Zeit und Ritual bei den Tugen in Kenia, by H. Behrend. Anthropos, vol. 84: 577-579.

1989
Review of The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power among the Uduk of Sudan, by W. James. Anthropos, vol. 84: 614-616.

1993
Review of Tribal Thought and Culture: Essays in Honour of Shri Surajit Chandra Sinha, by B. Saraswati (ed.). In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. XXXVII: 80-82.

1995
Review of Little Kingdoms in Kalinga. Ideologie, Legitimation und Politik regionaler Eliten, by G. Berkemer. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. XXXIX.

1999
Evans-Pritchard. In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4. Auflage, Bd.2: Eintrag 4834). Tübingen: Verlag Mohr Siebeck.

2001
James G. Frazer - The Golden Bough. In Hauptwerke der Ethnologie, by C. Feest und K.H. Kohl (eds.). Stuttgart: Kröner Verlag, pp. 113-118.

2004
Der gestohlene König. Politik, Ritual und kulturelles Gedächtnis in Ostindien. In Scientia Halensis 4: 5-6.

2005
Review of Dream Travellers, by Roger I. Lohmann (ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2003). In Paideuma 51: 300-305.

2009
Die Zeit nach den Zeitzeugen. Holocaustforschung in Halle und Beersheeba. In Scientia Halensis 1/09: 28-29. (with J. Feldman und A. Peleikis)

Internet Presentations

Ethnologische Marginalien. Antrittsvorlesung
Antrittsvorlesung_Burkhard_Schnepel.pdf (1.9 MB)  vom 18.12.2008

Bilder vom Séga. Inszenierungen von Authentizität auf Mauritius
Bilder_vom_Séga.pdf (216.8 KB)  vom 18.12.2008

Strangers in the Night: The Making and Unmaking of Differences from the Perspective of an Anthropology of the Night
Strangersinthenight.pdf (201 KB)  vom 05.04.2007

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