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Gerd Koch

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ID89975
NAMEGerd Koch
GIVEN NAMESGerd
FAMILY NAMEKoch
SIGNATUREKOCH G
AFFILIATIONSMuseum am Rothenbaum
ORCID0000-0002-4420-5652
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2
  • Being an Infant in a Pandemic

    Open Access•Mona Katharina Sprengeler, Janna Mattheß et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing lockdowns might have had a strong impact on mental health of mothers and their infants/toddlers. For example, families had to deal with health issues and social isolation, which might have affected mental health and parent-child interactions. The aim of this study is to evaluate differences in (1) infantile regulatory disorders, (2) maternal mental health, (3) the impact of maternal mental health on infantile…

  • Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

    Open Access•Gerd Koch, Gabriele Koch•ARTICLE•Journal of Legal Anthropology•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    This article argues that how sex appears in the law shapes what erotic pleasure is in a commercial context, and indirectly produces sex workers’ ideas about the moral stakes of engaging in certain acts. Although Japan’s anti-prostitution law was intended to eliminate commercial sex, the state’s mid-century attempt to define a proscribed site of sexual pleasure centered on intercourse instead led to the proliferation of erotic services in a divers…

  • Producingiyashi

    Open Access•Gerd Koch, Gabriele Koch•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 28

    Women working in the Japanese sex industry provide deeply gendered affective labor to male white-collar workers. Their services center oniyashi(healing), a carefully constructed performance of intimacy that commingles maternal care with sexual gratification. Sex workers value this labor as providing socially necessary care to men who work in valorized sectors of the Japanese economy. Yet their own labor is produced within conditions of economic p…

  • The West Irian project

    Gerd Koch•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•1988

    From 1974 through 1976, more than 50,000 meters of film were shot on the Mountain Papua of New Guinea, as part of a research project for the German Research Society examining the theme, “Interdisciplinary Exploration of Man, Culture and the Environment in the Central Highlands of West Irian (New Guinea).” The research was carried out in the high valleys of Eipomek, Famek, and Bime. Filming in this unexplored region did not prove easy. The people …

  • Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands

    Open Access•Gerd Koch•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1975

  • Die Musik der Ellice-Inseln

    Bruno Nettl, Dieter Christensen et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnomusicology•1965

  • Producingiyashi

    Open Access•Gerd Koch, Gabriele Koch•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 28

    Women working in the Japanese sex industry provide deeply gendered affective labor to male white-collar workers. Their services center oniyashi(healing), a carefully constructed performance of intimacy that commingles maternal care with sexual gratification. Sex workers value this labor as providing socially necessary care to men who work in valorized sectors of the Japanese economy. Yet their own labor is produced within conditions of economic p…

  • Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

    Open Access•Gerd Koch, Gabriele Koch•ARTICLE•Journal of Legal Anthropology•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    This article argues that how sex appears in the law shapes what erotic pleasure is in a commercial context, and indirectly produces sex workers’ ideas about the moral stakes of engaging in certain acts. Although Japan’s anti-prostitution law was intended to eliminate commercial sex, the state’s mid-century attempt to define a proscribed site of sexual pleasure centered on intercourse instead led to the proliferation of erotic services in a divers…

  • Die Musik der Ellice-Inseln

    Bruno Nettl, Dieter Christensen et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnomusicology•1965

  • Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands

    Open Access•Gerd Koch•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1975

  • The West Irian project

    Gerd Koch•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•1988

    From 1974 through 1976, more than 50,000 meters of film were shot on the Mountain Papua of New Guinea, as part of a research project for the German Research Society examining the theme, “Interdisciplinary Exploration of Man, Culture and the Environment in the Central Highlands of West Irian (New Guinea).” The research was carried out in the high valleys of Eipomek, Famek, and Bime. Filming in this unexplored region did not prove easy. The people …

  • Producingiyashi

    Open Access•Gerd Koch, Gabriele Koch•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 28

    Women working in the Japanese sex industry provide deeply gendered affective labor to male white-collar workers. Their services center oniyashi(healing), a carefully constructed performance of intimacy that commingles maternal care with sexual gratification. Sex workers value this labor as providing socially necessary care to men who work in valorized sectors of the Japanese economy. Yet their own labor is produced within conditions of economic p…

  • Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

    Open Access•Gerd Koch, Gabriele Koch•ARTICLE•Journal of Legal Anthropology•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    This article argues that how sex appears in the law shapes what erotic pleasure is in a commercial context, and indirectly produces sex workers’ ideas about the moral stakes of engaging in certain acts. Although Japan’s anti-prostitution law was intended to eliminate commercial sex, the state’s mid-century attempt to define a proscribed site of sexual pleasure centered on intercourse instead led to the proliferation of erotic services in a divers…

  • Being an Infant in a Pandemic

    Open Access•Mona Katharina Sprengeler, Janna Mattheß et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing lockdowns might have had a strong impact on mental health of mothers and their infants/toddlers. For example, families had to deal with health issues and social isolation, which might have affected mental health and parent-child interactions. The aim of this study is to evaluate differences in (1) infantile regulatory disorders, (2) maternal mental health, (3) the impact of maternal mental health on infantile…

Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (2 works) · Sex work and related issues (2 works)

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