Prof. Dr. Karin Polit
Professor
Address
Universität Tübingen
Asien-Orient-Institut
Abteilung für Ethnologie
Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen
+49-(0)7071-29-72431
Room: 128
Office hours
Please make an appointment via e-mail. Until further notice, appointments will be held over the telephone or the internet. Please contact our staff for further details.
Research
Research topics
- The global hierarchy of value and the circulation of ideas, goods and aesthetic regimes related to cultural heritage, ritual and religion.
- Education, Work and Art in Resistance to Global and Local Inequalities (In collaboration with Prof. Gabriele Alex, University of Tübingen and Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena)
- Religion, Ritual, Performance
- Stress, education and teen suicide in India
- Media and Youth Culture in New Delhi
- Gender (violence, medicine, reproduction, youth)
- Medical anthropology (new technologies - mental health - violence)
- Mourning for own reproduction when children die early - USA, Europe, India, Japan (in cooperation with Prof. Harish Naraindas, JNU, New Delhi)
Since 04/2018
Professor
at the Department of Anthropology, University of Tübingen
2015
Venia Legendi Award in Anthropology
at University of Heidelberg
2006
Promotion
University of Heidelberg Topic: "Ethnographic Reflections on Practices of Gender and Agency among Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas"
2001
Magister Artium Anthropology
1998
Bachelor of Arts Anthropology
at James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia
Publications
Monographs
2016
When Gods set out to wander: The value of art, heritage and ritual in Uttarakhand, India. (Habilitation thesis, submitted in April 2015. Faculty of Behavioural and Empirical Social Sciences, University of Heidelberg). New York: Oxford University Press.
2012
Fieldwork in South Aisa, Special Issue 'The Oriental Anthropologist', Vol. 14 (1) .
2006
Keep My Share of Rice in the Cupboard : ethnographic reflections on practices of gender and agency among Dalit women in the Central Himalayas. Heidelberg: Universitätsbibliothek der Uni Heidelberg. URL: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/10671.
Editorships
2016
(with C. Brosius Ed.). Youth in South Asia. Special Issue. The International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies.
2016
(with H. Walsdorf Hg.) Rituelle und Performative Lernkulturen. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
2016
(with G. Alex Ed.) Childbirth and its Accompanying Rituals. Draupadi: Heidelberg.
Essays
2016
Gifts of love and friendship: On changing marriage traditions, the meaning of gifts and the value of women in the Garhwal Himalays. In Journal of Hindu Studies.
2016
Educational Stress and suicidal behavior among young middle class students in North India. In: Christiane Brosius und Karin Polit (Hg.) Youth in South Asia. Special Issue. The International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies.
2016
Rituelles Lernen in ritueller Praxis: Kinästhetisch-mimetisches Lernen am Beispiel nordindischer Ritualpraktiken. In: Karin Polit und Hanna Walsdorf (Hg.). Rituelle und Performative Lernkulturen. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
Films
2011
When Gods set out to wander: the divine pilgrimage oft he godking „Jakh“ in the Central Himalayas. 59min, (Kamera, Regie, Konzept: K.Polit; Schnitt: S. Ewald und F. Pfeiffer)
2011
Jugendkulturen in Indien und deren Rituale. 4,12 min. www.dfg-science-tv.de/de/projekte/rituale/2011-06-22 (Konzept, Mitarbeit und Protagonist: K.Polit – in Zusammenarbeit mit F. Pfeiffer und C. Bertolo, Universität Heidelberg)
Website: www.anthropology-india.net
Postgraduate students
- Sarah Ewald „Acts of resistance in the every-day life of the conflict zone Kashmir“ [link]
- Gaurav Lamichhane „Involuntarily Childlessness in Nepal: plural healing practices, masculinity, maleinfertility, and healing journeys of Nepali men“ [link]
- Poonam Kamath „Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Infertility and Women’s Bodies: A Feminist Perspective“ [link]
- Margarita Lipatova „“An ethnography of European refugee camp: structural violence in the ´refugee regime´”
- Pallabi Roy „Locating Childlessness in India“ (Ko-Betreuung mit Prof. Gabriele Alex, Universität Tübingen)