Publications of Hanna Nieber

Becka, Hynek, Samiksha Bhan, Desirée Kumpf, Claudia Lang, Hanna Nieber, Julia Vorhölter, and Hanna Werner. 2024. Universality in pieces? Mobilizations of science in a fractured world; introduction. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1): 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i1.1874 .

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. Authority with textual materials: power of the written Qur’an. Material Religion 20(1): 51–72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2024.2303905.

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. Universality as horizon: aspirations and geometries of astrophysics in Africa. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1): 53–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i1.1877.

Nieber, Hanna. 2019. Islamic Zanzibar: between the Indian ocean and the African mainland. Journal of Africana Religions 7(1): 131–137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.7.1.0131.

Nieber, Hanna. 2017. 'They all just want to get healthy!' Drinking the Qur'an between forming religious and medical subjectivities in Zanzibar. Journal of Material Culture 22(4): 453–475. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517729427.

Nieber, Hanna. 2014. Gezeiten, Geister und Gemeinschaft: der Indische Ozean als muslimisch geprägter Raum - ein Essay. Zenith 3: 76–77.

Chinigò, Davide and Hanna Nieber. 2025. Imaginaries of outer space from Africa: astronomy infrastructure in South Africa and Madagascar. In: Jenia Gorbanenko, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai, and Adryon Kozel (eds.). Exploring ethnography of outer space: methods and perspectives. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 57–76.

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. Coming to terms with religion/s: Islamic medicine in Zanzibar. In: Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse, Benedikt Pontzen, and Hassan Mwakimako (eds.). Religious plurality in Africa: coexistence, conviviality, conflict. Religion in Transforming Africa. Woodbridge; Rochester: James Currey, pp. 197–215.

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. Inexpressible reading: the efficacious non-discursivity of drinking the Qur'an. In: Urmila Mohan (ed.). The efficacy of intimacy and belief in worldmaking practices. New York: Routledge, pp. 27–41.

Nieber, Hanna. 2020. Drinking the written Qurʼan: healing with Kombe in Zanzibar town. PhD Thesis, Utrecht University, Utrecht.

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. An audacious vision. Living in a Mode of Despite. https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/living-in-a-mode-of-despite/an-audacious-visionby-hanna-nieber/.

Nieber, Hanna. 2023. Dippel, Anne und Martin Warnke: Tiefen der Täuschung: Computersimulation und Wirklichkeitserzeugung. 173 S. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2022. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 148(2): 344–347. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v148i2.1323.

Nieber, Hanna. 2021. Hans Olsson, Jesus for Zanzibar: pentecostal narratives of (non)belonging, Islam and nation (Leiden, Brill, 2019) xvi + 291 pp. Exchange 50(1): 104–105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1572543X-12341589.

Nieber, Hanna. 2021. About ingestion: drinking the Qur'an, Annemarie Mol's "Eating in theory," and fusion cooking as method. Religious Matters. https://religiousmatters.nl/about-ingestion-drinking-the-quran-annemarie-mols-eating-in-theory-and-fusion-cooking-as-method/.

Nieber, Hanna. 2021. Astronomy in Africa. Interview by Stefan Schwendtner and Carlo Diesterbeck-Roll. Spot On. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/en/spot-on/hanna-nieber-astronomy-in-africa.