Judith Schlehe
Biographic Data
| ID | 576948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Schlehe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlehe |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLEHE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7692-7708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Celebrating Twenty Years of Tandem Research Training in Indonesia and Germany
In July 2024, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg (UFR), Germany, and the Department of Anthropology at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia, celebrated together the 20th anniversary of their joint Tandem Research Training Programme. This hybrid event brought together 100 alumni from many parts of the world as well as colleagues from various disciplines and partner institutions who have contribu…
Cosmological Visions, Multispecies Practices, and Planetary Health in Pandemic Times
The cosmovisions of the so-called world religions are based on assumed divides between nature and culture, nonhuman and human, man and God, and these divisions have long been reproduced by the social sciences. Only recently, a radical interrelatedness has been thematized and acknowledged by certain scholars, and indeed, the current pandemic reminds us of zoonoses and the manifold relationships that humans have with other forms of life. At the sam…
An anthropology of waste
This article discusses plastic and other solid household waste in both rural and urban Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (Special Region of Yogyakarta) and integrates several practical and theoretical perspectives in its analysis. An exploration of the everyday littering practices of the Javanese people is combined with analysis of their particular ways of relating to the environment. This study reveals that an abstract notion of nature is not seen as c…
Cosmopolitanism, Pluralism and Self-Orientalisation in the Modern Mystical World of Java
At present, a great deal of the scholarly research on Indonesia focuses on the processes of Islamisation. This paper will discuss a phenomenon that seems to point in a different direction, namely the contemporary reconfiguration of dukun /spiritual experts called paranormal . These mystics indicate a peculiar form of pluralism. They are an assemblage of tradition and modernity, locality and translocality, religion and mysticism, spirituality and …
Contesting Javanese traditions
This article focuses on the cultural politics of the invention and revival of public traditions. By drawing on the ethnographic example of a kirab budaya (cultural parade) in Kota Gede, a historic area of Yogyakarta, it shows the complex renegotiations and discursive tension connected to religious spectacles in contemporary Java. This article understands popularised traditions as reflections of the current dynamics between Islamisation, policymak…
Passages of culture
How do African cultures transform when they appropriate new media? This introduction to the following five articles raises and reflects basic questions related to the many transformations that African societies currently go through when they are faced with new media. It situates the concept of mediality in the social practice of those who deal with and experience media. As instances of the in-between, as bridges between actors and their life-worl…
Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
Translating Traditions and Transcendence
Religion Tradition And The Popular Transcultural Views From Asia And Europe
A rapid development of religious popular cultures and lifestyles can be observed across the globe. This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization, all of which render religious traditions significant for contemporary issues and concerns. The essays examine experiences of spirituality in combination with commercialization and expressive performative pra…
Religion, Tradition and the Popular
Staging the Past
Introduction
Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
This book addresses the question of how to ground research practice in area-specific, yet globally entangled contexts such as 'Global Southeast Asia'. It offers a fruitful debate between various appro
Concepts of Asia, the West and the Self in ContemporaryIndonesia
This paper explores the imaginations of Asia, the West and various self-conceptsin contemporary, post-Reformasi Indonesia. Departing from aproblematization of the underlying concepts in recent social science literature,the author asks how Indonesians construct their moral order and their sense ofSelf, 'Asia' or 'the East' by constructing a Westerncounterpart. This question is traced with respect to various religious andspiritual orientations and …
Staging the Past
Cultural Politics of Representation in Contemporary Indonesia
The organisation and representation of diversity is a crucial challenge for all countries and especially for post-colonial nations. Accordingly, the politics of multiethnic representation as well as multicultural rhetoric is constantly reformulated and adapted to new conditions, both locally and globally.Cultural theme parks are a typical arena for the display of multiculturality. In the case of Indonesia it is of special interest to investigate …
Staging the Past in Cultural Theme Parks
Introduction
Anthropology of religion
Based on ethnographic research, this article explores local explanations for and interpretations of the earthquake which occurred on the island of Java, Indonesia in May 2006, costing 6000 lives and leaving about 1 million people homeless. Although everybody knows that the disaster was the result of tectonic activity, this knowledge co‐exists with religious beliefs in manifold ways. The most widespread accounts of the earthquake referred to local…
Zur Inszenierung nationaler, lokaler und religiöser Identitäten in indonesischen Kulturparks
Kultur, Universalität und Diversität
Die Leibhaftigkeit in der ethnologischen Feldforschung
Anthropology of religion
Based on ethnographic research, this article explores local explanations for and interpretations of the earthquake which occurred on the island of Java, Indonesia in May 2006, costing 6000 lives and leaving about 1 million people homeless. Although everybody knows that the disaster was the result of tectonic activity, this knowledge co‐exists with religious beliefs in manifold ways. The most widespread accounts of the earthquake referred to local…
Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
This book addresses the question of how to ground research practice in area-specific, yet globally entangled contexts such as 'Global Southeast Asia'. It offers a fruitful debate between various appro
Concepts of Asia, the West and the Self in ContemporaryIndonesia
This paper explores the imaginations of Asia, the West and various self-conceptsin contemporary, post-Reformasi Indonesia. Departing from aproblematization of the underlying concepts in recent social science literature,the author asks how Indonesians construct their moral order and their sense ofSelf, 'Asia' or 'the East' by constructing a Westerncounterpart. This question is traced with respect to various religious andspiritual orientations and …
Cultural Politics of Representation in Contemporary Indonesia
The organisation and representation of diversity is a crucial challenge for all countries and especially for post-colonial nations. Accordingly, the politics of multiethnic representation as well as multicultural rhetoric is constantly reformulated and adapted to new conditions, both locally and globally.Cultural theme parks are a typical arena for the display of multiculturality. In the case of Indonesia it is of special interest to investigate …
Die Leibhaftigkeit in der ethnologischen Feldforschung
Kultur, Universalität und Diversität
Zur Inszenierung nationaler, lokaler und religiöser Identitäten in indonesischen Kulturparks
Staging the Past in Cultural Theme Parks
Introduction
Anthropology of religion
Based on ethnographic research, this article explores local explanations for and interpretations of the earthquake which occurred on the island of Java, Indonesia in May 2006, costing 6000 lives and leaving about 1 million people homeless. Although everybody knows that the disaster was the result of tectonic activity, this knowledge co‐exists with religious beliefs in manifold ways. The most widespread accounts of the earthquake referred to local…
Staging the Past
Cultural Politics of Representation in Contemporary Indonesia
The organisation and representation of diversity is a crucial challenge for all countries and especially for post-colonial nations. Accordingly, the politics of multiethnic representation as well as multicultural rhetoric is constantly reformulated and adapted to new conditions, both locally and globally.Cultural theme parks are a typical arena for the display of multiculturality. In the case of Indonesia it is of special interest to investigate …
Concepts of Asia, the West and the Self in ContemporaryIndonesia
This paper explores the imaginations of Asia, the West and various self-conceptsin contemporary, post-Reformasi Indonesia. Departing from aproblematization of the underlying concepts in recent social science literature,the author asks how Indonesians construct their moral order and their sense ofSelf, 'Asia' or 'the East' by constructing a Westerncounterpart. This question is traced with respect to various religious andspiritual orientations and …
Translating Traditions and Transcendence
Religion Tradition And The Popular Transcultural Views From Asia And Europe
A rapid development of religious popular cultures and lifestyles can be observed across the globe. This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization, all of which render religious traditions significant for contemporary issues and concerns. The essays examine experiences of spirituality in combination with commercialization and expressive performative pra…
Religion, Tradition and the Popular
Staging the Past
Introduction
Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
This book addresses the question of how to ground research practice in area-specific, yet globally entangled contexts such as 'Global Southeast Asia'. It offers a fruitful debate between various appro
Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
Contesting Javanese traditions
This article focuses on the cultural politics of the invention and revival of public traditions. By drawing on the ethnographic example of a kirab budaya (cultural parade) in Kota Gede, a historic area of Yogyakarta, it shows the complex renegotiations and discursive tension connected to religious spectacles in contemporary Java. This article understands popularised traditions as reflections of the current dynamics between Islamisation, policymak…
Passages of culture
How do African cultures transform when they appropriate new media? This introduction to the following five articles raises and reflects basic questions related to the many transformations that African societies currently go through when they are faced with new media. It situates the concept of mediality in the social practice of those who deal with and experience media. As instances of the in-between, as bridges between actors and their life-worl…
Cosmopolitanism, Pluralism and Self-Orientalisation in the Modern Mystical World of Java
At present, a great deal of the scholarly research on Indonesia focuses on the processes of Islamisation. This paper will discuss a phenomenon that seems to point in a different direction, namely the contemporary reconfiguration of dukun /spiritual experts called paranormal . These mystics indicate a peculiar form of pluralism. They are an assemblage of tradition and modernity, locality and translocality, religion and mysticism, spirituality and …
An anthropology of waste
This article discusses plastic and other solid household waste in both rural and urban Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (Special Region of Yogyakarta) and integrates several practical and theoretical perspectives in its analysis. An exploration of the everyday littering practices of the Javanese people is combined with analysis of their particular ways of relating to the environment. This study reveals that an abstract notion of nature is not seen as c…
Cosmological Visions, Multispecies Practices, and Planetary Health in Pandemic Times
The cosmovisions of the so-called world religions are based on assumed divides between nature and culture, nonhuman and human, man and God, and these divisions have long been reproduced by the social sciences. Only recently, a radical interrelatedness has been thematized and acknowledged by certain scholars, and indeed, the current pandemic reminds us of zoonoses and the manifold relationships that humans have with other forms of life. At the sam…
Celebrating Twenty Years of Tandem Research Training in Indonesia and Germany
In July 2024, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg (UFR), Germany, and the Department of Anthropology at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia, celebrated together the 20th anniversary of their joint Tandem Research Training Programme. This hybrid event brought together 100 alumni from many parts of the world as well as colleagues from various disciplines and partner institutions who have contribu…
Sociology (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)