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Becker, Anja
2023 “When men lose their animals, women gain power”: Women and Change in East Pokot, Kenya

Ellerich, Sebastian
(2023). Melanesian Mainstream. Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu.

Whande, Tanyaradzwa Edith
(2023). Human, Livestock and Wildlife interactions at the boundary of Hwange National Park and Tsholotsho Communal Areas in Zimbabwe.

Olwage, Elsemi
(2022). Under the Leadwood Tree: Disputing land, mobility and belonging in post-colonial southern Kaoko.

Masocha, Bright
(2022). The Political Ecology of Great Limpopo Trans frontier Conservation Area (GLTCA): Focusing on Human-wildlife Conflicts.

Mwaka, Innocent
(2020). Agricultural improvement? Persistence and change in agricultural development ideas and farmers' responses in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania (1900-2015).

Kuiper, Gerda
(2017). "The Flowers Are Carrying Us". Agro-industrial Labour and Migrant Workers' Settlements at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Achterberg-Boness, Anne-Christina
2017. Dynamics of Law, Culture and Society in the Organisation of Land and Water Distribution among Rural Farmers in Karatu District/Northern Tanzania.

Menestrey Schwieger, Diego
2017. The Pump Keeps on Running: On the emergence of water management institutions between state decentralization and local practices in northern Kunene. Berlin: LIT-Verlag.

Okumu, Willis
2017. Meanings of Violence and Its Impacts on the Socio-Political Relations among the Turkana and Samburu of Baragoi, Northern Kenya.

Kelbert, Thekla
2016. Encounters at the Water Point – An Ethnography of the Travelling Model of Community-Based Water Management and its Application to Rural Water Supply in Namibia.

Naumann, Christiane
2015. “Where We Used to Plough” – 100 Years of Environmental Governance, Rural Livelihoods and Social-Ecological Change in Thaba Nchu, South Africa.

Odhiambo, Michael
2015. Il Chamus versus the State: Vulnerability, Litigation and Resilience Building in the Baringo Lowlands of Kenya.

Silangwa, Florian
2013. Migration and Demographic Changes: Its Implications on Land Transformation and Changing Socio-EconomicDevelopment in the Lake Eyasi Basin in Karatu District, Tanzania. (VW funded project on Mobility and Resource Management)

Mutopo, Patience
2012. The Granary is never empty. Female Agency, Land Access, Livelihood Security and Non-Permanent Mobility after the Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe. (VW funded project on Mobility and Resource Management)

Nyasulu, Tapiwa Uchizi
2012. Governance and Customary Land Tenure in Peri-Urban Kasoa in Ghana.

Schaumburg, Katrin
2012. "So where are we going to get our men? We must share." Bonyatsi als Ausdruck von agency schwarzer Frauen der südafrikanischen Mittelschicht.

Toensjost, Silke
2012. Kapital und Konsum bei Ovaherero-Pastoralisten im Nordwesten Namibias. (funded by Hans Böckler Foundation)

Springer, Annabelle
2010. Don't Sit back! Take Charge of your Life! Medialisierung der HIV/AIDS-Epidemie im urbanen Sambia. Köln: Institut für Ethnologie der Universität, Diss.

Förster, Larissa
2010. Koloniale und postkoloniale Erinnerungslandschaften: Deutsche, Hereround der Krieg im Jahr 1904. Frankfurt. Campus

Dieckmann, Ute 
2007. Haiom in the Etosha region: a history of colonial settlement, ethnicity and. Basel. Basler AfrikaBibliographien.

Eguavoen, Irit
2007. "Now you have a new pump, you have to manage it." Household water management, water rights and institutional change in Northern Ghana. Köln: Institut für Ethnologie der Universität, Diss.

Laube, Wolfgang 
2007. Changing Natural Resource Regimes in Ghana. Actors, Structures, Institutions. LIT, Berlin,

Österle, Matthias 
2007. Innovation und Transformation bei den pastoralnomadischen Pokot (East Pokot, Kenia). Köln: Institut für Ethnologie der Universität, Diss. 

Soko, Grace
2007. Poverty and the Gendered Dimension of Land Rights in Southeast Tanzania. A Case of Nyangao Village, Lindi.

Wessler, Adelheid 
2007. Von Lebendabgüssen, Heimatmuseen und Cultural Villages. Museale Repräsentation des Selbst und des Anderen im (De-)Kolonisierungsprozess Namibias. Köln: Institut für Ethnologie der Universität, Diss.

Berzborn, Susanne  
2006. Ziegen und Diamanten. Sicherung des Lebensunterhalts im ländlichen Südafrika. Berlin: LIT-Verlag. Zugl.: Köln, Univ., Diss., 2004 u.d.T.: Haushaltsökonomie, soziale Netzwerke und Identität - risikominimierende Strategien von Pastoralisten und Lohnarbeitern im Richtersveld, Südafrika.

Hadjer, Kerstin 
2006. Geschlecht, Magie und Geld. Sozial eingebettete und okkulte Ökonomien in Benin, Westafrika. Köln: Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität, Diss.

Boden, Gertrud 
2005. Prozesse sozialen Wandels vor dem Hintergrund staatlicher Eingriffe. Eine Fallstudie zu den Khwe in West Caprivi/Namibia. Köln: Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität, Diss.

Klein, Thamar
2005. Befindensweisen und therapeutische Wege in Dendougou, Benin.

Ullmann, Christine  
2005. Black Peril, White Fear. Representations of Violence and Race in South Africa’s English Press, 1976-2002, and Their Influence on Public Opinion. Köln, Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität, Diss.

Schwinge, Brigitte
2001. Haushaltsökonomie, Kooperation und institutioneller Wandel. Kleinbäuerliche Überlebensstrategien im Norden Namibias.