Institut für Kulturanthropologie / Europäische Ethnologie

Publications



    Monographs

  • Kurzwelly, J. (forthcoming). People and Identities in Nueva Germania. Manchester University Press.

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2017) Being German and being Paraguayan in Nueva Germania: Arguing for "contextual epistemic permissibility" and "methodological complementarity". PhD Thesis, University of St Andrews.


    • Edited collections

  • Kurzwelly, J., Spiegel, A. and Perez, M. (2023, forthcoming). Contemporary Identity Politics and Social Justice. Dialectical Anthropology. [special issue]

  • Kurzwelly, J. and Escobedo, L. (Eds.) (2021). Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein. HSRC Press, Cape Town. ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2598-5 [Shortlisted for the 2022 book award by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences in South Africa.]

  • Kurzwelly, J., Rapport, N., and Spiegel, A. (2020). Ethnographic Encounters with Essentialism. Anthropology Southern Africa. [special issue]


    • Articles and book chapters

  • Kurzwelly, J. , Spiegel A. and Perez M. (2023, forthcoming). Introduction: Is contemporary identity politics conducive to achieving sustained social justice? Dialectical Anthropology.

  • Jacorzynski, W. and Kurzwelly, J. (2023, in press). Desde Tarzán hasta el funcionalismo científico de Bronislaw Malinowski. In: Jacorzynski, W., Korsbaek, L. & Ponce Alonso, E. (Eds.). Malinowski: Miradas de cerca y lejos. Casa Chata: Mexico.

  • Wilckens, M.S., Kurzwelly, J. (2022). Menschliche Überreste als positives und negatives Kapital, Historische Anthropologie. doi: 10.7788/hian.2022.30.3.329

  • Kurzwelly, J. and Wilckens, M. S. (2022). Calcified identities: persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains, Anthropological Theory. Preprint: doi: 10.1177/14634996221133872

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2022). Bones and Injustices: Provenance research, restitutions, and identity politics. Dialectical Anthropology. Preprint: doi: 10.1007/s10624-022-09670-9

  • Bendix, R. and Kurzwelly, J. (2021). Custody and custodianship: A reflection on collection terminology through the lens of human remains. Anthropology Today, 37 (5), 21-24. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12679

  • Kurzwelly, J., Escobedo, L. (2021). Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a post-apartheid city. In: Kurzwelly, J. and Escobedo, L. (Eds.). Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein. HSRC Press, Cape Town. ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2598-5

  • Kurzwelly, J., Fernana, H. and Ngum, M. E. (2021). Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum. In: Kurzwelly, J. and Escobedo, L. (Eds.). Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein. HSRC Press, Cape Town. ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2598-5

  • Escobedo, L., Kurzwelly, J., Agbedahin, K., (2021). Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories. In: Kurzwelly, J. and Escobedo, L. (Eds.). Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Making meanings and building life in Bloemfontein. HSRC Press, Cape Town. ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2598-5

  • Kurzwelly, J., Rapport, N., and Spiegel, A. (2020). Encountering, Explaining and Refuting Essentialism. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43(2), 65-81. doi: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1780141

  • Kurzwelly, J, with Fernana, H. and Ngum, M. E. (2020). The Allure of Essentialism and Extremist Ideologies. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43(2), 107-118. doi:10.1080/23323256.2020.1759435

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2019). Photographic Complementarity and the Story of Abel Pavon. Visual Anthropology, 32(5), 460-475. doi:10.1080/08949468.2019.1671752

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2019). Being German, Paraguayan and Germanino: exploring the relation between social and personal identity. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 19(2), 144-156. doi:10.1080/15283488.2019.1604348

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2019). Nowa Germania, Niemieckość, Paragwajskość i Problem Tożsamości Społecznych. Czas Kultury, (200) 1/2019, 125-136.

  • Gordon, R. and Kurzwelly, J. (2018). Photographs as Sources in African History. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.250 ; Also published in: Spear, T. (Ed.) (2019). The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190698706. [This book received the 2021 Waldo G. Leland prize, of the American Historical Association, for the best reference work published over the past five years.]

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2012). Photography as a participatory method in visual anthropology. Perifèria, 17. doi:10.5565/rev/periferia.372

  • Kurzwelly, J. (2012). Meksyk: fotografia partycypacyjna. Czas Kultury, 3/2012, pp.4-15, 66-71.