Behrend, Heike

LC control no.	n 87908472
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Behrend, Heike *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Germany
Associated place	Uganda Nigeria
Located	Berlin (Germany)
Field of activity	Ethnology--Africa Anthropology of religion Spirit possession Photography--Africa Motion picture industry--Africa Video recordings industry--Africa Mass media and culture Cannibalism
Affiliation	Universität zu Köln
Profession or occupation	Ethnologists Anthropology teachers
Found in	Her Die Zeit des Feuers, c1985: title page (Heike Behrend) Contesting visibility, c2013 title page (Heike Behrend) preliminary page (was professor of social anthropology and African studies at University of Cologne; interested in photography, video, religion, and violence; presently retired and living in Berlin) Local popular video production in Northern Nigeria, 2004: title frames (Heike Hehrend [i.e. Behrend]) speaker introduction (has written on the Lord's Resistance Army, some of that published in English; her other interest is film and still photography; published a collection of African studio portraits in 1998 [in German]) Columbia University Libraries, AMESA: Directory of Scholars of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia (website), viewed October 22, 2019 (Heike Behrend; region of study: Africa; countries of specialization: Uganda; research interests: anthropology of religion (especially spirit possession) and war in Africa, media anthropology, history of anthropology; recent publications on local photographic practices in Africa and on cannibalism in the background of the eucharist)
Associated language	ger eng