Junior Professor
Research focus
Cultural analysis of the regional (local handling of intangible cultural heritage)
Memory and popular culture (re-enactments)
Custom and ritual transformations
Health and spirituality research (sense-making in precarious life situations)
Heterodox cultures (conspiracy theories; ‘esotericism’)
Legal anthropology (legal standardisation in everyday life; law in popular culture)
Field research methods
Ethnographic film
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MA HS. Semantiken und Gegennarrative kulturanthropologischer Forschung: Ontologie – Alltag jenseits von Natur und Kultur?
Instructor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mirko Uhlig -
S. Alltagskulturforschung - Fachgeschichte (Winter)
Instructor: PD Dr. Christina Niem; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mirko Uhlig
WiSe 2025/26
Current publication
Together with Thomas Schneider, 2023, Mainzer Beiträge zur Kulturanthropologie / Europäische Ethnologie, vol. 25, 182 pages, paperback, with numerous illustrations and downloadable documentary film
More info about the book (in German)
In the media
Podcast 4 Meter tief
#44 – Traditionen - Braucht man die noch?
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