BOOKS

Roland Hardenberg (Germany) • Introduction. Asian World Views: Context and Structure

Anna Schmid (Germany) • Truck Art as Arena of Contest

Vishvajit Pandya (New Zealand) • Spirits, Politics, and Rituals in the History of Nicobar Islands

Roland Hardenberg (Germany) • Visnu’s Sleep, Mahisa’s Attack and Durga’s Victory: Concepts of Royalty in a Sacrificial Drama

Uwe Skoda (Germany) • The Kinship System of the Aghria

Christian Strümpell (Germany) • Kinship in Western Uttar Pradesh: A Re-Interpretation of Sylvia Vatuk’s Model of North Indian Kinship

Ingrid pfluger-Schindlbeck (Germany) • The Power of Tropes in the Laments of Death

Helene Basu (Germany) • Local Concepts of Women Ascetics: Living Goddesses of the Charan

Lidia Guzy (Germany) • “On the Road with the Babas”. Some Insights into Local Features of Mahima Dharma

Georg Pfeffer (Germany) • Tribal Ideas

Tina Otten (Germany) • In a Remote Area: Categories of the Person and Illness among the Desia of Koraput, Orissa