Publications of Michaela Pelican

Journal Article (13)

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Journal Article
Pelican, Michaela. 2012. Friendship among pastoral Fulbe in northwest Cameroon. African Study Monographs 33(3): 165–188.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2012. Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon: transformations in identity and political representation. Afro-Eurasian Inner Dry Land Civilizations 1: 113–126.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2011. Researching South-South/South-East migration: transnational relations of Cameroonian Muslim migrants. Tsantsa 16: 169–173.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2011. Mbororo on the move: from pastoral mobility to international travel. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 29(4): 427–440.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2010. Umstrittene Rechte indigener Völker: das Beispiel der Mbororo in Nordwestkamerun. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 135(1): 39–60.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2010. Beyond national citizenship. African Arguments Online (08.03.2010).
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Journal Article
Pelican, Michaela. 2009. Complexities of indigeneity and autochthony: an African example. American Ethnologist 36(1): 149–163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01109.x.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2009. Auseinandersetzungen um die Rechte indigener Völker: das Beispiel der Mbororo in Nordwest Kamerun. Tsantsa 14: 56–65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-1007315.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2009. Migration to the Gulf States and China: local perspectives from Cameroon. African Diaspora 2(2): 229–245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187254509X12477244375210.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2008. Mbororo claims to regional citizenship and minority status in northwest Cameroon. Africa 78(4): 540–560.
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Pelican, Michaela and Andreas Dafinger. 2006. Sharing or dividing the land?: land rights and herder-farmer relations in a comparative perspective. Canadian Journal of African Studies 40(1): 127–151.
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Grätz, Tilo, Barbara Meier, and Michaela Pelican. 2004. Freundschaftsprozesse in Afrika aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Africa Spectrum 39(1): 9–39.
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Pelican, Michaela. 2004. Frauen- und Männerfreundschaften im Kameruner Grasland: ein komparativer Ansatz. Africa Spectrum 39(1): 63–93.

Book Chapter (4)

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Book Chapter
Pelican, Michaela. 2012. From cultural property to market goods: changes in the economic strategies and herd management rationales of agro-pastoral Fulbe in North West Cameroon. In: Anatoly Khazanov and Günther Schlee (eds.). Who owns the stock?: collective and multiple forms of property in animals. New York: Berghahn, pp. 213–230.
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Book Chapter
Pelican, Michaela. 2010. Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian Muslim migrants. In: Tilo Grätz (ed.). Mobility, transnationalism and contemporary African societies. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 178–191.
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Book Chapter
Pelican, Michaela. 2009. Customary, state and human rights approaches to containing witchcraft in Cameroon. In: Thomas G. Kirsch and Bertram Turner (eds.). Permutations of order: religion and law as contested sovereignties. Law, Justice and Power. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 149–164.
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Book Chapter
Pelican, Michaela. 2004. Im Schatten der Schlachtviehmärkte: Milchwirtschaft der Mbororo in Nordwestkamerun. In: Günther Schlee (ed.). Ethnizität und Markt: zur ethnischen Struktur von Viehmärkten in Westafrika. Topics in African Studies 4. Köln: Köppe, pp. 131–158.

Thesis - PhD (1)

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Thesis - PhD
Pelican, Michaela. Getting along in the Grassfields: interethnic relations and identity politics in Northwest Cameroon. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.

Working Paper (3)

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Working Paper
Grätz, Tilo, Michaela Pelican, and Barbara Meier. 2003. Zur sozialen Konstruktion von Freundschaft: Überlegungen zu einem vernachlässigten Thema der Sozialanthropologie. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 53. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-9DD7-2.
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Working Paper
Pelican, Michaela. 2003. Interethnische Freundschaften in Nordwestkamerun: ein Vergleich ethnischer und gender-spezifischer Konzepte und Praktiken. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 56. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-9DB3-1.
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Working Paper
Dafinger, Andreas and Michaela Pelican. 2002. Land rights and the politics of integration: pastoralists' strategies in a comparative view. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 48. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-9E8E-4.

Other (2)

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Other
Pelican, Michaela. 2008. Bush faller: KamerunerInnen zwischen Fremde und Heimat. Afrika. Aspekte. Journal Ethnologie. https://www.journal-ethnologie.de/Schwerpunktthemen/Schwerpunktthemen_2008/Afrika_Aspekte/Bush_faller/index.html.
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Other
Pelican, Michaela. 2005. Konfliktlösungsstrategien und ethnische Koexistenz im Kameruner Grasland. Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung: Sonderausgabe 2005. https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-sonderausgabe-2005-de#page=91.

Book Review (2)

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Book Review
Pelican, Michaela. 2011. The perils of belonging: autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe by Peter Geschiere. American Ethnologist 38(4): 841–842.
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Book Review
Pelican, Michaela. 2004. Helen Regis "Fulbe voices: marriage, Islam and medicine in Northern Cameroon". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(2): 483–484.

Monograph (1)

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Monograph
Pelican, Michaela. 2015. Masks and staffs: identity politics in the Cameroon grassfields. Integration and Conflict Studies 11. New York: Berghahn.

Interview (1)

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Interview
Pelican, Michaela. 2019. 10 questions for Michaela Pelican. Interview by Stefan Schwendtner. The Alumni Interview. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/eth/en/newsarchiv/alumni-interview-pelican.
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