Ulrich Demmer (University of Heidelberg)

Ulrich Demmer, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
South Asia Institute
University of Heidelberg.
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
69120 Heidelberg, Germany

email: t45@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Description of work:

Interests and Research: South Asia, Tribal Cultures and Dalit Cultures,
Oral Traditions, Ritual and Performance Studies, Culture and Rhetoric,
Person and Emotion;

Five Years of Field Research with the Jenu Kurumba, a South Indian
Tribal Group.

Publications on:  Ritual Performance and Rhetoric among the Jenu
Kurumba; Kinship and Sociality among the Jenu Kurumba; Concepts of
Suffering and Morality. Forthcoming are papers on: The Rhetoric Culture
of the Jenu Kurumba.