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Astrid Wonneberger (PD Dr.) is a private lecturer for cultural and social anthropology at the University of Hamburg as well as a researcher and lecturer for family science at the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg. Her major academic interests include diaspora, ethnicity and urban anthropology. She has completed field research in Western Ireland, New York, Boston and Dublin (Ireland).
Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (M.A.) is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg.
Hauke Dorsch (Dr.) is the director of the African Music Archives of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 7
Introduction: Migration, Networks, Skills 9
The Kashmiri Diaspora in Britain and the Limits of Political Mobilisation 23
From Ultimogeniture to Senior Club 47
Secular Mood, Community Consensus 67
The Perversion of the Ancient and Traditional Value of "Hospitality" in Contemporary Greece: From Xenios Zeus to "Xenios Zeus" 85
How Solomon Bibo from Germany Became an Indian Chief 101
The Modernity of the Mafia 131
The Ethnographic Validity of Paternity Denial (alias "Virgin Birth") 149
Hamburg HafenCity Revisited 177
Towards an Ethnography of Rivers 195
Hands, Skills, Materiality 209
About the Authors 231
Waltraud Kokot: Publications 1981-2013 237