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2014 Naga Textiles: Design, Technique, Meaning and Effect of a Local Craft Tradition in Northeast India. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers. 368 pages, 287 color plates, additional included poster with 156 color plates. (Dissertation Thesis)
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2021 Crossing Boundaries: Tibetan Studies Unlimited. Prague: Academia. Co-editor with Diana Lange, Jarmila Ptáčková, and Marieke Wulff. 653 pages. (Festschrift for Toni Huber).
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list of publications
Wettstein, Marion. In Preparation . Monograph on dance, ritual and religion featuring the Sakela dance of the Rai in Eastern Nepal.
Wettstein, Marion, Martin Gaenszle and Alban von Stockhausen. forthcoming. “Increasing Materiality and Emerging Concepts of Ethnic Religious Identity: The Case of ‘Kirat Religion’ in Nepal”. Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques.
Wettstein, Marion. In Print. “Shamans, Ethnographers, Mimesis: The visible invisible among the Dumi Rai of Eastern
Nepal”. In: A. de Sales and M. Lecomte-Tilouine (eds.), Encounters with the Invisible: Revisiting Possession in the Himalayas. Routledge.
Wettstein, Marion and Michaela Wisler. 2024. “Even When Historical Texts are Not an Option: Extending Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz’s Approach to a Global History of Religion.” AЯGOS 3(2) Special Issue Towards a Global History of Religion: 126–132. DOI: 10.26034/fr.argos.2024.4763.
Wettstein, Marion and Alban von Stockhausen. 2022. “Ethnographic Comparison and Pre-History? A Comparison of the Chamdam Status Rituals among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal and the Feasts of Merit among the Ao Naga of Northeast India”. In: Stephen Morey, Mark Post and Toni Huber (eds.), Ethno-linguistic prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 88-128.
Diana Lange, Jarmila Ptáčková, Marion Wettstein, and Marieke Wulff (eds.). 2021. Crossing Boundaries: Tibetan Studies Unlimited. Prague: Academia. (Festschrift for Toni Huber).
Wettstein, Marion. 2021. “Drawing Away the Ostensible Boundary Between Science and Art”. In: D. Lange, J. Ptáčková, M. Wettstein, and M. Wulff (eds.), Crossing Boundaries: Tibetan Stuides Unlimited. Prague: Academia. Pp. 383-405.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2021. “Lines of Identity: The Preference for the Broken Line in the Handloom Weaving of the Nagas of Northeast India”. In: A. Chassagnol, C. Joseph et A. Kekeh-Dika, Penser la ligne brisée (Actes de Colloques, Epistemocritique). (20 pages)
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Wettstein, Marion. 2019. “YouTube and the Rising Trend for Indigenous Folk Dance: The Case of the Sakela Dance of the Rai in Nepal and their Diasporas.” In: M. Schleiter & E. de Maaker, Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia. London etc.: Routledge. Pp. 213-228.
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Wettstein, Marion, Alban von Stockhausen, and Chatur Bhakta Rai. 2019. “Nuja: Text, Melody, and Movement of a ‘New Grain’ Ritual Performance among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal”. In: M. Gaenszle (ed.), Ritual Speech in the Himalayas: Oral Texts and their Contexts. (Harvard Oriental Series). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 71-104.
Wettstein, Marion. 2018. “Dancing Who We Are: The Embodiment of Rai Ethnic Identity in Sakela Performance”. In: Social Science Baha: Conference Proceedings 2012: The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya. Kathmandu: Social Science Baha. Pp. 271-293.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2017. “Book Review: Werner M. Egli: The Sunuwār of Nepal and their Sense of Communication: A Study in the Culture, Psychology and Shamanism of a Himalayan People”. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 142 (2017): 148-151.
Wettstein, Marion. 2017. “‘Sakhela’ – Verkörperung und Leibhaftigkeit lokaler Mythen in den rituellen Tänzen Ostnepals”. In: Armin Morich (ed.), Kosmischer Tanz: Eranos 2015 und 2016. Basel: Schwabe Verlag. S. 63-101.
Wettstein, Marion. 2016. “How ethnic identity becomes real: The enactment of identity roles and the material manifestation of shifting identities among the Nagas”. Asian Ethnicity 17 (3): 384-399. Online 23 Oct. 2015: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2015.1091653
Wettstein, Marion. 2015. “Review Essay: A Pioneer of Comparative Himalayan Mythology (a review of Miyapma: Traditional Narratives of the Thulung Rai, by N.J. Allen)”. EBHR – European Bulletin of Himalayan research 46: 88-95.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2015. “The Dancers Complied, the Chicken Denied: Explorations into the Pragmatic Work of Rituals among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal”. Shaman 23:1&2, spring/autumn 2015): 163-188.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2014. Naga Textiles: Design, Technique, Meaning and Effect of a Local Craft Tradition in Northeast India. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers. (Dissertation Thesis)
Wettstein, Marion. 2014. “Kiranti Culture in Contemporary Nepal” – workshop report. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 44 (Spring-Summer 2014). Pp. 93-96.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2013. “Fashion Zeitgeist in Northeast India”. In: Tereza Kuldova (ed.), Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism. Oslo: Akademika forlag. Pp. 73-88.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2013. “The Ethnic Fashion Scene in Nagaland”. Archiv (Weltmuseum Wien) 61-62. Pp. 31-50.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2013. “Review: Datta, Birendranath: Cultural Contours of North-East India”. 2012. Anthropos (108.2013.2). Pp. 644-645.
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von Stockhausen, Alban and Marion Wettstein. 2013. “Contesting Power, Negotiating Influence: Rai Shamans and New Religious Movements in Eastern Nepal”. In: Davide Torri and Diana Riboli (eds), Shamanism and Violence. Surrey/Burlington: Ashgate Publishers. Pp. 103-118.
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von Stockhausen, Alban and Marion Wettstein. 2012. “Connecting to the Past”. In: Julian Jacobs (ed), The Nagas: Hill Peoples of Northeast India – Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter. Extended new edition. London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer. Pp. i-xxxi.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2012. “Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity”. In: Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn (eds), Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas. Leiden, Boston: Brill. Pp. 213-238.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2012. “Ongoing Research about Dumi Rai Culture and Tradition by the University of Vienna”. Isilim Magazine. Dumi Kirat Rai Fansikim: Kathmandu.
Wettstein, Marion. 2009. “Review: Michael Aram Tarr and Stuart Blackburn”. 2008. Through the Eye of Time – Photographs of Arunachal Pradesh 1859-2006: Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research no 35-36 (autumn 2009-spring 2010), p. 185-191.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2008. “Der Ursprung des Webens”. In: W. Marschall, P. von Wyss-Giacosa & A. Isler (Hrsg.), Genauigkeit: Schöne Wissenschaft. Bern und Sulgen: Benteli. S. 237-239.
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Oppitz, Michael, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen, and Marion Wettstein (Hrsg.). 2008. Naga Identitäten: Zeitenwende einer Lokalkultur im Nordosten Indiens. Gent: Snoek.
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Oppitz, Michael, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen, and Marion Wettstein (eds.). 2008. Naga Identities: Changing Cultures in the Northeast of India. Gent: Snoeck.
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Oppitz, Michael, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen, and Marion Wettstein. 2008. “Die Naga – Eine Einführung”. In: M. Oppitz, T. Kaiser, A.v. Stockhausen, and M. Wettstein (Hrsg.), Naga Identitäten: Zeitenwende einer Lokalkultur im Nordosten Indiens. Gent: Snoek. S.11-29.
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Oppitz, Michael, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen, and Marion Wettstein. 2008. “The Nagas – An introduction”. In: M. Oppitz, T. Kaiser, A.v. Stockhausen, and M. Wettstein (eds.), Naga Identities: Changing Cultures in the Northeast of India. Gent: Snoeck. Pp. 11-29.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2008. “Besiegte Krieger, erfolgreiche Weberinnen: Männerkleidung im Wandel männlicher Identität bei den Ao Naga”. In: M. Oppitz, T. Kaiser, A.v. Stockhausen, and M. Wettstein (Hrsg.), Naga Identitäten: Zeitenwende einer Lokalkultur im Nordosten Indiens. Gent: Snoek. S. 129-146.
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Wettstein, Marion. 2008. “Defeated Warriors, Successful Weavers: Or how Men’s Dress Reveals Shifts of Male Identity among the Ao Nagas”) In: M. Oppitz, T. Kaiser, A.v. Stockhausen, and M. Wettstein (eds.), Naga Identities: Changing Cultures in the Northeast of India. Gent: Snoeck. Pp. 129-146.
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Wettstein Marion and Alban von Stockhausen. 2008. “‘Kulturelle Extravaganz’ und Identitätssuche im heutigen Nagaland”. In: R. Kunz & V. Joshi (Hrsg.), Naga: Eine vergessene Bergregion neu entdeckt. Basel: Merian. Pp. 180-187.
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Wettstein Marion and Alban von Stockhausen. 2008. “‘Cultural extravagance’ and the search for identity in presentday Nagaland”.In: R. Kunz & V. Joshi (ed.), Naga: A Forgotten Mountain Region Rediscovered). Basel: Merian. Pp. 180-187
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Wettstein, Marion (ed.). 2005. Jenseitswelten: Von Geistern, Schiffen und Liebhabern. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich.
Wettstein, Marion. 2005. “Eine Einführung”. In: M. Wettstein (ed.), Jenseitswelten: Von Geistern, Schiffen und Liebhabern. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich. Pp. 7-9.
Wettstein, Marion. 2005. “Im Blickfeld der Dämonen”. In: M. Wettstein (ed.), Jenseitswelten: Von Geistern, Schiffen und Liebhabern. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich. Pp. 38-41.
von Stockhausen, Alban and Marion Wettstein. 2005. “Verstehen im Zwischenzustand”. In: M. Wettstein (ed.), Jenseitswelten: Von Geistern, Schiffen und Liebhabern. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich. Pp. 33-37.
Wettstein, Marion and Alban von Stockhausen. 2003. “Traditional and Modern Knowledge – two inseparable sisters” in: Isilim Magazin, Kathmandu.