Verena Keck
Biographic Data
| ID | 628242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Keck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Keck |
| SIGNATURE | KECK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8873-8736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental Wellbeing and Social Resilience of Eritrean Refugees Living in Germany
Mental health and social resilience play a significant role in refugees’ adaptation during the resettlement process in the host country. Maintaining good mental wellbeing helps the refugees to respond to stressful experiences with healthy life choices. This study aimed to explore the mental wellbeing and social resilience of Eritrean refugees living in Germany and to identify social conditions and enablers to foster adaptation. This study employs…
Eritrean Refugees’ and Asylum-Seekers’ Attitude towards and Access to Oral Healthcare in Heidelberg, Germany
Oral health concerns in Eritrean refugees have been an overlooked subject. This qualitative study explored the access of Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers (ERNRAS) to oral health care services in Heidelberg, Germany, as well as their perceptions and attitudes towards oral health care. It involved 25 participants. We employed online semi-structured interviews ( n = 15) and focus group discussions ( n = 2). The data was recorded, transcribed, an…
Common Worlds and Single Lives
Contradictions and Complexities-Current Perspectives on Pacific Islander Mobilities
From the first movements of people towards the Pacific Islands millennia ago to recent transnational migration in a globalised world, translocal mobility has been a central aspect of the social lives, cultures and histories of many Pacific Islanders. While Oceania has always been an area of migration as well as cultural and economic exchange, current transnational Pacific movements are deeply embedded in a twentieth- and twenty-first-century glob…
The Sound of a Person
Konggap , sung melodic motifs that last only a few seconds embody the acoustic representation of a person among the Y upno people of P apua N ew G uinea and are a unique phenomenon in the P acific. The konggap forms a very complex system of personal identification and expression of social relationships; at the same time it connects the singer to the ancestral world. Every person in Y upno society possesses his or her own konggap, and Y upno peopl…
Dilger, Hansjörg, und Bernhard Hadolt (Hrsg.)
Anthropos , Seite 240 - 242
Knowledge, Morality and ‘Kastom’
This paper investigates the extent of knowledge about HIV/AIDS among young Yupno women and men. Local understanding of sikAIDS is shaped by cultural, moral and religious concepts and processes that are based on social values and practices. Difficulties these young people face in accessing information about HIV/AIDS and using it to implement preventative measures — for example by obtaining condoms — have to be seen in the framework of ‘kastom’ and…
Colder than cool
Considerable research in medical anthropology has been concerned with the distinction between disease and illness, and this framework has also influenced studies of disability though the 1980s and 1990s. Nevertheless, nearly all of these studies have considered only Western concepts of disability, usually with reference only to Western cultures and often with reference to Western health care systems. Few anthropological studies have considered no…
Two ways of explaining reality
Cultural anthropologists and biomedical physicians do not work together as often as they should. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the advantages of such a concerted effort. After briefly clarifying the author's own point of view and giving an ethnographic description of the Yupno people and their medical system, the focus will be the case of sickness of a small boy, presented from two perspectives, biomedical and medical anthropological.…
Talk About A Changing World
Apres une presentation (histoire, mode de vie, religion) des Yupno (chaine orientale du Finistere, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee), l'A. retranscrit un debat de 7 jeunes hommes Yupno interroges sur la « kastom » (tradition), la « senis » (situation actuelle), et sur l'avenir (independance, developpement). Si les uns la considerent comme depassee, si d'autres veulent garder certaines pratiques, si d'autres encore craignent l'occidentalisation et d'autr…
Talk About A Changing World
Apres une presentation (histoire, mode de vie, religion) des Yupno (chaine orientale du Finistere, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee), l'A. retranscrit un debat de 7 jeunes hommes Yupno interroges sur la « kastom » (tradition), la « senis » (situation actuelle), et sur l'avenir (independance, developpement). Si les uns la considerent comme depassee, si d'autres veulent garder certaines pratiques, si d'autres encore craignent l'occidentalisation et d'autr…
Contradictions and Complexities-Current Perspectives on Pacific Islander Mobilities
From the first movements of people towards the Pacific Islands millennia ago to recent transnational migration in a globalised world, translocal mobility has been a central aspect of the social lives, cultures and histories of many Pacific Islanders. While Oceania has always been an area of migration as well as cultural and economic exchange, current transnational Pacific movements are deeply embedded in a twentieth- and twenty-first-century glob…
Colder than cool
Considerable research in medical anthropology has been concerned with the distinction between disease and illness, and this framework has also influenced studies of disability though the 1980s and 1990s. Nevertheless, nearly all of these studies have considered only Western concepts of disability, usually with reference only to Western cultures and often with reference to Western health care systems. Few anthropological studies have considered no…
Two ways of explaining reality
Cultural anthropologists and biomedical physicians do not work together as often as they should. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the advantages of such a concerted effort. After briefly clarifying the author's own point of view and giving an ethnographic description of the Yupno people and their medical system, the focus will be the case of sickness of a small boy, presented from two perspectives, biomedical and medical anthropological.…
Talk About A Changing World
Apres une presentation (histoire, mode de vie, religion) des Yupno (chaine orientale du Finistere, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee), l'A. retranscrit un debat de 7 jeunes hommes Yupno interroges sur la « kastom » (tradition), la « senis » (situation actuelle), et sur l'avenir (independance, developpement). Si les uns la considerent comme depassee, si d'autres veulent garder certaines pratiques, si d'autres encore craignent l'occidentalisation et d'autr…
Colder than cool
Considerable research in medical anthropology has been concerned with the distinction between disease and illness, and this framework has also influenced studies of disability though the 1980s and 1990s. Nevertheless, nearly all of these studies have considered only Western concepts of disability, usually with reference only to Western cultures and often with reference to Western health care systems. Few anthropological studies have considered no…
Knowledge, Morality and ‘Kastom’
This paper investigates the extent of knowledge about HIV/AIDS among young Yupno women and men. Local understanding of sikAIDS is shaped by cultural, moral and religious concepts and processes that are based on social values and practices. Difficulties these young people face in accessing information about HIV/AIDS and using it to implement preventative measures — for example by obtaining condoms — have to be seen in the framework of ‘kastom’ and…
Dilger, Hansjörg, und Bernhard Hadolt (Hrsg.)
Anthropos , Seite 240 - 242
The Sound of a Person
Konggap , sung melodic motifs that last only a few seconds embody the acoustic representation of a person among the Y upno people of P apua N ew G uinea and are a unique phenomenon in the P acific. The konggap forms a very complex system of personal identification and expression of social relationships; at the same time it connects the singer to the ancestral world. Every person in Y upno society possesses his or her own konggap, and Y upno peopl…
Contradictions and Complexities-Current Perspectives on Pacific Islander Mobilities
From the first movements of people towards the Pacific Islands millennia ago to recent transnational migration in a globalised world, translocal mobility has been a central aspect of the social lives, cultures and histories of many Pacific Islanders. While Oceania has always been an area of migration as well as cultural and economic exchange, current transnational Pacific movements are deeply embedded in a twentieth- and twenty-first-century glob…
Common Worlds and Single Lives
Eritrean Refugees’ and Asylum-Seekers’ Attitude towards and Access to Oral Healthcare in Heidelberg, Germany
Oral health concerns in Eritrean refugees have been an overlooked subject. This qualitative study explored the access of Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers (ERNRAS) to oral health care services in Heidelberg, Germany, as well as their perceptions and attitudes towards oral health care. It involved 25 participants. We employed online semi-structured interviews ( n = 15) and focus group discussions ( n = 2). The data was recorded, transcribed, an…
Mental Wellbeing and Social Resilience of Eritrean Refugees Living in Germany
Mental health and social resilience play a significant role in refugees’ adaptation during the resettlement process in the host country. Maintaining good mental wellbeing helps the refugees to respond to stressful experiences with healthy life choices. This study aimed to explore the mental wellbeing and social resilience of Eritrean refugees living in Germany and to identify social conditions and enablers to foster adaptation. This study employs…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · New guinea (3 works)