Publications
Monographs/Books
2006
“Wir arbeiten zusammen, wir essen zusammen”. Konvivium und soziale Peripherie in einer indischen Werkssiedlung (“We work together, we eat together”. Conviviality and social Periphery in an Indian Company Settlement). PhD thesis, Freie Universität Berlin 2004. LIT-Verlag, Münster.
Journal Articles
in press
Caste, class and modernity. Shop-floor relationships in a hydro-project in Orissa, India. International Journal of Anthropology, Florence (Special Volume edited by Uwe Skoda, Christian Strümpell, Judith Dick and Moez Khalfaoui.
2008
Parry, J.P. and C. Strümpell. On the Desecration of Nehru's 'Temples': Bhilai and Rourkela Compared. Economic and Political Weekly, 43/19. 47-57.
2001
Strümpell, C. Industrialization in a ‘Tribal Zone’: The Desia of Koraput and a Hydro-Electric Power Project. Adibasi 40/41. 71-81.
2000
Strümpell, C. Kinship in Western Uttar Pradesh. A Re-Interpretation of Sylvia Vatuk’s Model of North Indian Kinship, Journal of Social Sciences, 4/4. 261-76
Book Chapters
in press
‘The Limits of Homo Hierarchicus: An Ethnological Approach to Orissa’s Industrial Society. In: G. Pfeffer, H. Kulke, H. v. Stietencron (ed.), Final Volume of the project Contested Centres. Considered for publication by Manohar Publishers New Delhi.
in press
Strümpell, C. ‘Forts and Camps in Tribal Orissa’: Industrialization and Kshatriyaization Compared. In: G. Pfeffer (ed.), Tribal Society: Category and Ritual Exchange (Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies Vol. 7). New Delhi, Concept.
2007
Strümpell, C. ‘Chatamput. An Industrial Camp in the Tribal Belt.’ In: G. Pfeffer (ed.), Periphery and Centre: Groups, Categories, Values. New Delhi, Manohar. pp. 319-40
Conference Presentations / Invited Lectures (Selection)
17.10.2007
Industrial Consent and Ritual Contest: Social Life of a Migrant Work Force in South Orissa. National Conference conducted jointly by the Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University, and the Indira Gandhi National Museum of Mankind, Madhya Pradesh.
17.07.2006
The Rourkela Steel Plant: Brief account of an ongoing research on industrialization in ‘tribal’ Orissa. South Asia Colloquium, Institute of Ethnology, Free University Berlin.
15.04.2005
Forts and Camps in Tribal Orissa: Kshatriyaization and Industrialization Compared. Invited lecture at the Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University.
19.12.2004
Tribal Society in Industrial India. Development Policies for “backward” Regions. Joint Conference of Sambalpur University, India, and Free University Berlin, Germany, entitled “Tribal Society and Beyond”.
13.12.2004
The “Shreds and Patches” of Modern India. IUAES Inter-Congress. Kolkata.
26.10.2004
Ein Leben im Abseits. Die indische Industriearbeiterschaft aus ethnologischer Perspektive. (Living ‘Offside’. An Ethnological Perspective on India’s Industrial Work Force). Lecture at the Institute for Ethnology, Westfalian Wilhelms University Münster.
29.09.2004
Onukadili. Eine Projektsiedlung als Treffpunkt all-indischer sozialer Kategorien (Onukadili. An industrial settlement as a point of confluence of pan-indian social categories). Final Conference of the research project Contested Centres of the German Research Council, Civita Castellana, Italy.
06.07.2004
India’s Industrial Workforce. An Ethnological Perspective. 18th EASAS European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies. Lund, Sweden.
16.05.2003
Industrial Centres in the Eastern Ghats. Conference of the research project Contested Centres of the German Research Council, Bad Salzau, Germany.
18.05.2002
Caste Society – Industrial Society. The Concept of Living ‘Outside’ and its Implications. Conference of the research project Contested Centres of the German Research Council, Bad Salzau, Germany.
24.05.2001
Chatamput – An Industrial Camp in the Tribal Zone. Conference of the research project Contested Centres of the German Research Council, Bad Salzau, Germany.