University of Heidelberg

Contact information

South Asia Institute
Department of Anthropology
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
69120 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

ambos@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 54 8798

Projects

• B14 Religion on Stage

Curriculum vitae

09/2011 - now: Coordinator Master program "Health and Society in South Asia", South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

01/2009 - 12/2011: Active team member of the project “Religion on Stage – Traditional South Asian Performances in New Public Spheres and Media” (B 14) of the Cluster of Excellence at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

PhD-project: “Media, Globalization and Modernity in Sinhalese Subaltern Performances” (supervisor: Prof. William S. Sax)

01/2009 - 08/2011: Sponsorship of the Cluster of Excellence at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

01/2008: M.A. in Ethnology at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

2003 – 2008: Studies of Ethnology and Modern European History at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

2001 – 2003: Studies of Ethnology, History and French Language Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Fieldwork:

07/2009 - 09/2009: Sri Lanka

10/2009 - 03/2010: Sri Lanka

06/2010 - 12/2010: Sri Lanka

Teaching:

10/2010 - 02/2012: „From Rituals to Rituals (and Back): An Introduction to Medical Anthropology“; South Asia Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

10/2011 - 02/2012: "Approaching Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork and Methodology Reconsidered"; South Asia Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

10/2011 - 02/2012: Conductor Working Group "Medical Anthropology"; South Asia Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

04/2011 - 07/2011: "Scrutinizing the Nature/Culture Dichotomy - Approaches in Social Anthropology and Science Studies" (in collaboration with Sandra Bärnreuther); Institute of Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

10/2010 - 02/2011: "Medical Anthropology of South Asia in the Context of Modernity, Globalization and Transculturality"; Institute of Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

04/2010 - 07/2010: "Vom 'Devil Dance' zum Kulturerbe: Ritual und Performanz am Beispiel Sri Lankas" ("From 'Devil dance' to Cultural Heritage: Ritual and Performance in Sri Lanka"); Institute of Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

04/2009 – 07/2009: “Medizinethnologie und Moderne” (“Medical Anthropology and Modernity”); Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany

10/2008 – 02/2009: “Einführung in die Medizinethnologie II” (“Introduction to Medical Anthropology II”); Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany

10/2008 – 02/2009: “Ethnography of Sri Lanka” (together with Prof. William S. Sax); Institute of Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Working experience

11/2008 – 12/2008: Student assistant at the Cluster of Excellence, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

04/2008 – 02/2009: Tutor “Introduction to Scientific Working Techniques”, Institute of Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

03/2008 – 12/2008: Student assistant of subproject A 5 (Prof. William S. Sax), SFB 619, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

06/2006 – 08/2006: Traineeship and small fieldwork in Sri Lanka (DAAD-sponsorship)

2005 – 2009: Tutor at the Institute of Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

10/2005 – 02/2006: Participation in the development of an E-Learning project, Department of History, University of Heidelberg (project manager: Prof. Madeleine Herren-Oesch)

Selected publications

2010. "The Sidelining of the Demons? Modernity and Possession in Sri Lanka", in: Fabrizio Ferrari (ed.), Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia. Disease, Possession and Healing. London: Routledge, pp. 199-212.

2011. "The Changing Image of Sinhalese Healing Rituals: Performing Identity in the Context of Transculturality", in: Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.), Transcultural Turbulences. Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 249-270.

Forthcoming. "Emotion and Healing Rituals in Sri Lanka", in: Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf (eds.), Emotions in Rituals and Performance. New Delhi/London: Routledge.