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Within this research focus of the department, diverse projects aim at developing new interdisciplinary approaches for the study of festivity, both in historical and in contemporary perspectives.
The fields to be explored are for example:
Ute Hüsken. 2022. „Navarattiri: Die Neun Nächte der Göttin.“ In Von Liebe und Krieg (akam paRum): Tamilische Geschichte(n) in Indien und der Diaspora. M. D. Muthukumaraswamy, Georg Noack, Lisa Priester-Lasch and Inés de Castro (eds.), (Linden-Museum Stuttgart). Sandstein Verlag: Stuttgart (in production).
Ute Hüsken. 2022. “Navarāttiri: Nine nights of the Goddess.” In Of Love and War (akam paRum): Tamil (Hi)Stories fromin India and the Diaspora. M. D. Muthukumaraswamy, Georg Noack, Lisa Priester-Lasch and Inés de Castro (eds.), (Linden-Museum Stuttgart). Sandstein Verlag: Stuttgart (in production).
Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan & Astrid Zotter (eds.). 2021. Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls and Darbars, ed. by Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan & Astrid Zotter, New York: SUNY.
Ute Hüsken. 2021. (with Vasudha Narayanan and Astrid Zotter) “Nine Nights of Power. Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs—An Introduction”. In Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls and Darbars, ed. by Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan & Astrid Zotter, New York: SUNY, pp. 1-13.
Ute Hüsken. 2021. “Limits of Creativity: Kolu in Vaiṣṇava houses in Kāñcipuram.” In Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls and Darbars, ed. by Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan & Astrid Zotter, New York: SUNY, pp. 93-112.
Ute Hüsken. 2021. “The Urban Life of South Indian Gods.” In Prayer and the Ancient City: Influences of Urban Space, ed. Maik Patzelt, Jörg Rüpke, and Annette Weissenrieder. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 163-180.
“South Asian Festival Culture.” In Routledge Handbookof South Asian Religions, ed. by Knut A. Jacobsen, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, pp. 384-398.
Ute Hüsken, “Navarātri.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online, ed. by Knut A. Jacobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, and Vasudha Narayanan. First published online: 2020.
Ute Hüsken, “Gods and goddesses in the ritual landscapeof seventeenth and eighteenths-century Kāñcipuram”. In Layered Landscapes: Early Modern Religious Space Across Faiths and Cultures, ed. by Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright, New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 63-81.
South Asian Festivals on the Move, ed. by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels(Ethno-Indology. Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals 13). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013.
Ute Hüsken, "Flag and Drum: Managing Conflicts in a South Indian Temple." In: South Asian Festivals on the Move, ed. by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013, pp. 99-135.
Ute Hüsken (with Axel Michaels), "Introduction: The Dynamic and Transculturality of South Asian Festivals." In South Asian Festivals on the Move, ed. by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013, pp. 9-26.
Ute Hüsken, “One Nine-Yard Sari, Two Elephants, and Ten Sips of Water. Ritual and Emotions at a South Indian Temple.” In: Emotions in Rituals and Performances, ed. by Axel Michaels & Christoph Wulf, New Delhi: Routledge, 2012, pp. 117-139.
Ute Hüsken (with K.K.A. Venkatachari), “Ritual Economyand South Indian Ritual Practice.” In: Ritual Matters. Dynamic Dimensions in Practice, ed. by Christiane Brosius & Ute Hüsken, London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge, 2010, pp. 293-308.
Ute Hüsken, “Contested Ritual Property. Conflicts over Correct Ritual Procedures in a South Indian Vishnu Temple.” In When Rituals Go Wrong. Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual, ed. by Ute Hüsken, Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 273-290.
Ute Hüsken,“Pavitrotsava: Rectifying Ritual Lapses.” In: Jaina-Itihāsa-Ratna. Festschrift für Gustav Roth zum 90. Geburtstag, ed. by U. Hüsken & Petra Kieffer-Pülz & Anne Peters (Indica et Tibetica 47), Marburg: Indica et Tibetica, 2006, pp. 265-281.
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