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Heike Behrend

Photo: © Heike Behrend

Heike Behrend, born in Stralsund in 1947, studied ethnology and religious studies in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. She worked ethnographically, especially in East Africa, taught at various universities in Germany and abroad and lives in Berlin.

(Updated: 2022)

Awards

  • 2021 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair

 

More Publications

Alice und die Geister. Krieg im Norden Ugandas
Non-fiction. Trickster Verlag, Munich 1993.

Die Zeit geht krumme Wege. Raum, Zeit und Ritual bei den Tugen in Kenia
Non-fiction. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1987.

Die Zeit des Feuers. Mann und Frau bei den Tugen in Ostafrika
Non-fiction. Qumran Verlag, Frankfurt 1985.

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Book cover Incarnation of an Ape. An autobiography of ethnographic research

Menschwerdung eines Affen. Eine Autobiografie der ethnografischen Forschung
[Incarnation of an Ape. An autobiography of ethnographic research]

Matthes & Seitz Verlag

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