Publications

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Berger, Peter. Subaltern Sovereigns: Rituals of Rule and Regeneration in Highland Odisha, India, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110458831
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110458831/html

Peter Berger 2020 Rupture and Resilience of Religion: Dynamics between a Hindu Reform Movement and an Indigenous Religion in Highland Odisha. In: P. Berger and Sarbeswar Sahoo (eds.) Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. 246-271.

Peter Berger 2019 Gadaba: Society on the Menu. in: BRILL Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia, ed. by Marine Carrin (Editor-in-Chief), Jean Jaurès, Michel Boivin, , Gérard Toffin, Centre d’Études Himalayennes, Paul Hockings, Raphaël Rousseleau, Tanka Subba, Harald Lambs-Tyche. First published online: 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2665-9093_BERO_COM_032299

Peter Berger 2018 Millet, Rice, and the Constitution of Society in Central India. Paideuma: Journal of Cultural Anthropology, vol. 64: 245-264.

Berger, Peter. 2017. Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Alimentary Rituals and Cosmology in Highland Odisha, India. In: B. Pati and U. Skoda (eds.) Highland Odisha: Life and Society Beyond the Coastal World. New Delhi: Primus, 71-106.

Berger, Peter. 2016. Good to eat, Good to Think and Good to Study: Food (and Drink) in Indian Tribal Societies: A Journal of COATS(Council of Analytic Tribal Studies), Vol. 4 (1): 5-23

Berger, Peter. 2015. Feeding, Sharing, and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter. https://rug.on.worldcat.org/oclc/908079627

Berger, Peter. 2016. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food. Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared. In P. Berger and J. Kroesen (eds.) Ultimate Ambiguities. Investigating Death and Liminality. New York: Berghahn

Berger, Peter. 2014. Dimensions of Indigeneity in highland Odisha, Asian Ethnology, 73 (1-2),19-37.

Berger, Peter. 2011. Feeding Gods, Feeding Guests: Sacrifice and Hospitality among the Gadaba of Highland Orissa (India). Anthropos, 106 (1): 31-47.

Berger, Peter. 2010. “Who are you, brother and sister?” The theme of ‘own’ and ‘other’ in thego’ter ritual of the Gadaba . In: Berger, P., Hardenberg, R., Kattner, E. and M. Prager (eds.), The Anthropology of Values. Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. 260-287.

Berger, Peter, with R. Hardenberg, Kattner, E. and M. Prager. 2010. Introduction: The Anthropology of Values. In: Berger, P., Hardenberg, R., Kattner, E. and M. Prager (eds.), The Anthropology of Values. Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. xv-xxxviii.

Berger, Peter. 2009. Conceptualizing and Creating Society in Highland Orissa. Descent, Territory and Sacrificial Communion. In: G. Pfeffer and D.K. Behera (eds.), Contemporary Society. Tribal Studies, Vol. VIII: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, pp. 119-34.

Hardenberg, Roland. 2018. Children of the Earth Goddess: Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Odisha. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. https://rug.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1020025772

Heidemann, Frank. 2013. Tamil Nadu: Inequality and Status, with G. Alex, in: The Modern Anthropology of India, P. Berger and F. Heidemann (eds.), London and New York (Routledge), pp. 260-75.

Heidemann, Frank. 2010. Die künstlichen Berge. Indische Hill Stations und die Produktion von edlen Wilden, in: Xenotopien. Verortung des Fremden im 19. Jahrhundert, V. Barth, F. Halbach, B. Hirsch (eds.), Münster (Lit), pp. 175-93.

Heidemann, Frank. 2010. The Priest and the Village Headman: Dual Souvereignty in the Nilgiri Hills , in: The Anthropology of Values. Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer , P. Berger, R. Hardenberg, E. Kattner, M. Prager (eds.), Delhi (Pearson), pp. 104-119.

Heidemann, Frank. 2009. Das Fest für die Göttin Hette, in: Hinduismus Reader, A. Malinar (ed.), Göttingen (Vandenhoek und Ruprecht UTB 3198), pp. 130-37.

Gregory, C. A. 2009. Brotherhood and Otherhood in Bastar: On the Social Specificity of 'Dual Organisation' in Aboriginal India. Tribal Studies, 8: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. Contemporary Society. G. Pfeffer and D. K. Behera. New Delhi, Concept Publishing.

Gregory, C. A. 2010. Siblingship as a Value. The Anthropology of Values: Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer P. Berger, R. Hardenberg, E. Kattner and M. Prager. Delhi, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Gregory, C. A. 2011. "Skinship: Touchability as a Virtue in East-Central India." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 1(1): 179–209.

Gregory, C. A. 2013. Chhattisgarh: At the Crossroads. The Modern Anthropology of India. P. Berger and R. Hardenberg. London, Routledge.

Gregory, C. A. 2013. "The Value Question in India: Ethnographic Reflections on an Ongoing Debate." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(1): 116-139.

Parkin, Robert. 2000. ‘Proving ‘Indigenity’, Exploiting Modernity: Modalities of Identity Construction in Middle India’, Anthropos 95 (1), 2000, pp. 49-63.

Pfeffer, Georg. 2009. "Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. An Introduction". By Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera. In: Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies. Vol.8: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. Ed. by Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company: ix-xvi

Pfeffer, Georg. 2009. "Orissan Tribal Societies: Commonalities and Variations". In: Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies. Vol.8: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. Ed. by Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company: 232-256

Pfeffer, Georg. 2009. "Social Evolution: History or Ideal Types?". In: Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies. Vol.8: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. Ed. by Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company: 259 – 265

Pfeffer, Georg. 2009. "Tribal Society in India and the World: Meeting the Undead Dead". In: Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies. Vol.8: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond. Ed. by Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company:  322 – 346

Pfeffer, Georg. 2009. "Sahlins' Tribesmen (1968) Reconsidered: Tribes of Highland Orissa in Perspective". In: Journal of Social Anthropology. Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2, January-December: 127-135

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ The Underbelly of the Indian Boom .’ (Edited with Stuart Corbridge). Special Issue of Economy and Society 42:3.

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ Agrarian Questions and Left Politics in India .’  (Edited with Jens Lerche and Barbara Harriss-White). Special Issue of Journal of Agrarian Change 13: 3.

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ Towards an Anthropology of Affirmative Action: the practices, politics and politics of transforming inequality in South Asia .’ (Edited with Sara Shneiderman). Special Issue of Focaal, Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. Spring 2013. Vol 65.

Shah, Alpa.. 2013. ‘ Savage Attack: Adivasi Insurgency in India .’  (Edited with Crispin Bates). New Delhi: Social Science Press. Forthcoming.

Shah, Alpa. 2013.  ‘ The Intimacy of Insurgency: Beyond Coercion, Greed, or Grievance in Maoist India. ’ Economy and Society 42: 3. 48-506.

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Guerrilla Zone: Land, Labour and Capital in the Forests and Hills of Jharkhand, India. ’ Journal of Agrarian Change 13: 3. 424-450.

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ The Tensions Over Liberal Citizenship in a Marxist Revolutionary Situation: The Maoists in India. ’  Critique of Anthropology. 33:1. 91-109.

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ Conservative Force or Contradictory Resource? Education and Affirmative Action in Jharkhand, India. ’  (with Rob Higham). COMPARE: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 43: 6.

Shah, Alpa. 2013. ‘ Affirmative Action and Political Economic Transformations: Secondary Education, Indigenous People and the State in Jharkhand, India .’  (with Rob Higham). Focaal, Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. Spring 2013. Vol 65.80-93.

Vitebsky, Piers. 2017. Living Without the Dead : Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.