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Felicitas Maria Becker
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2025
Kijiji cha Watoro : resistance, identity, and social life of Nyamwezi runaway slaves along the central caravan route in Tanzania
Salvatory Nyanto
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
SLAVERY & ABOLITION
2025
Muscat in rural Tanzania : Omani Arabs, identity, and citizenship in post-slavery Tanzania, 1920s–1960s
Salvatory Nyanto
Felicitas Maria Becker
A2
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2025
Supportive, destructive, or indifferent? Expanding global markets and the end of slavery in Continental East Africa in the twentieth century
Felicitas Maria Becker
Nives Kinunda
Salvatory Nyanto
A1
Journal Article
in
ITINERARIO-JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND GLOBAL INTERACTIONS
2025
Women’s livelihood and status struggles in Tabora after the end of slavery, 1920s–60
Felicitas Maria Becker
Salvatory Nyanto
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY
2025
2024
In pursuit of freedom : oaths, slave agency, and the abolition of slavery in Western Tanzania, 1905-1930
Salvatory Nyanto
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW
2024
Islam and masculinities in Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
The Palgrave handbook of African men and masculinities
2024
Muslim networks, public services and development intervention in post-socialist Tanzania : between liberalization and alienation
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Governance and Islam in East Africa : Muslims and the State in Kenya and Tanzania
2024
Populist Islamism in East Africa : elaborating alternative futures from idealized pasts
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Claiming the people's past : populist politics of history in the twenty-first century
2024
2023
Researching the aftermath of slavery in mainland East Africa : methodological, ethical, and practical challenges
Felicitas Maria Becker
Salvatory Nyanto
James Giblin
Ann McDougall
Alexander Meckelburg
Lotte Pelckmans
A1
Journal Article
in
SLAVERY & ABOLITION
2023
2022
Routes to emancipation in East Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
Michelle Liebst
Bookchapter
in
Oxford research encyclopedia of African history
2022
2021
Looking for life : traces of slavery in the structures and social lives of southern Swahili towns
Felicitas Maria Becker
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN DIASPORA ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE
2021
Post-colonial nostalgia, conspiracy theories and uneasy quiescence : newspaper commentary on the debate on kadhis’ courts in contemporary Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Shabani Mwakalinga
Bookchapter
in
Islamic law in the Indian ocean world
2021
Tanzania's authoritarian turn : less sudden than it seems
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
CURRENT HISTORY
2021
2020
Locating the ‘customary’ in post-colonial Tanzanian politics : the shifting modus operandi of the rural state
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
2020
2019
Langer Schatten : die Wurzeln des Genozids und die deutsche Herrschaft in Ruanda
Felicitas Maria Becker
Article in a newspaper
2019
Poverty in Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
Ewout Frankema
Bookchapter
in
Routledge international handbook of poverty
2019
The politics of poverty : policy-making and development in rural Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Book
2019
2018
How alien is the colonial past, and how can we judge its protagonists?
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
King of the animals : Wilhelm Kuhnert and the image of Africa
2018
Introduction
Felicitas Maria Becker
Joel Cabrita
Bookchapter
in
Religion, media and marginality in Africa
2018
Legal pluralism and the pursuit of a just life : Muslim views on law and justice in East Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices
2018
Religion, media and marginality in Africa
Book editor
2018
The history of Islam in East Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Oxford research encyclopedia of African history
2018
2017
Fading slave regimes and the reconstruction of patriarchal authority according to oral sources: Mingoyo, Southern Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
African slaves, African masters: politics, memories, social life
2017
2016
Patriarchal masculinity in recent Swahili-language Muslim sermons
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA
2016
2015
'The bureaucratic performance of planning in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania'
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Measuring African development: past and present
2015
Obscuring and revealing : Muslim Engagement with volunteering and the aid sector in Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW
2015
Radical rhetoric and real-life pragmatism in East African Islam
Felicitas Maria Becker
A4
Journal Article
in
AFRICA RESEARCH INITIATIVE NEWSLETTER
2015
‘Female seclusion in the aftermath of slavery on the Southern Swahili coast: transformations of slavery in unexpected places’
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
2015
2014
Fashioning selves and fashioning styles : negotiating the personal and the rhetorical in the experiences of African recipients of ARV treatment.
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa
2014
Introduction : performing citizenship and enacting exclusion on Africa's Indian Ocean littoral
Felicitas Maria Becker
Joel Cabrita
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY
2014
Islam and imperialism in East Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Islam and the European empires
2014
Special issue of the Journal of African History: Africa and the Indian Ocean
Book editor
2014
The bureaucratic performance of development in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-REVUE CANADIENNE D ETUDES DU DEVELOPPEMENT
2014
2013
Common themes, individual voices : memories of slavery around a former slave plantation in Mingoyo, Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
African voices on slavery and the slave trade, volume 1 : the sources
2013
Religious anxieties in two marginal regions : reformist debates on funerary ritual among Tanzanian and Acehnese Muslims in the twentieth century
Felicitas Maria Becker
A2
Journal Article
in
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA, AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
2013
‘'Remembering Nyerere : political rhetoric and dissent in contemporary Tanzania'.
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
2013
2012
Freeborn villagers : Islam and the local uses of cosmopolitan connections among Tanzanian villagers
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts : perspectives from the Past
2012
Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Encyclopedia of global religion
2012
The Qadiriyya in East Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
A2
Journal Article
in
Oxford Islamic studies online
2012
2011
Vernacular ethnic stereotypes : their persistence and change in southeast Tanzania, ca. 1890-2003
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Ethnicity and the long-term perspective : the African experience
2011
2010
Sudden disaster and slow change : the Maji Maji War and the long-term history of Southeast Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Maji Maji : lifting the fog of war
2010
Swahili thought
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Oxford encyclopedia of African thought
2010
2009
AIDS and religious practice in Africa
Book editor
2009
Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARV in Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
AIDS and religious practice in Africa
2009
Introduction : searching for pathways in a landscape of death : religion and aids in Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
P. Wenzel Geissler
Bookchapter
in
AIDS and religious practice in Africa
2009
Islamic reform and historical change in the care of the dead : conflicts over funerary practice among Tanzanian Muslims
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICA
2009
The rise of Islamic radicalism in Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Newsarticle
2009
‘Bad governance’ and the persistence of alternative political arenas: a study of a Tanzanian region.’
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
The governance of daily life in Africa : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services
2009
2008
Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, ca. 1880-2000 : the spread of Islam beyond the Indian ocean coast
Felicitas Maria Becker
Book
2008
Commoners in the process of gradual Islamization : reexamining their role in the light of evidence from Southeast Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY
2008
2007
Cosmopolitanism beyond the towns : Islam and rural-urban relations on the southern Swahili coast in the twentieth century
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Struggling with history : anthropology and history in the western Indian Ocean
2007
Searching for pathways in a landscape of death : religion and AIDS in East Africa
Felicitas Maria Becker
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA
2007
The virus and the scriptures : Muslims and AIDS in Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA
2007
2006
‘Rural Islamism during the “war on terror” : a Tanzanian case study’
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
2006
2005
Der Maji-Maji-Krieg gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft in Tanzania
Book editor
2005
Deutscher Kolonialismus : allerhand Mythen : der Maji-Maji-Krieg zeigt die Brutalitaet, aber auch die Grenzen deutscher Machtausuebung
Felicitas Maria Becker
A4
Journal Article
in
Blaetter des Informationszentrums Dritte Welt
2005
Fuer einige Zeit wiederbelebt : das Gedenken an Maji Maji in Tanzania
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Der Maji-Maji-Krieg in Deutsch-Ostafrika 1905-1907
2005
Suedost-Tansania nach dem Maji-Maji-Krieg : Unterentwicklung als Kriegsfolge?
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Der Maji-Maji-Krieg in Deutsch-Ostafrika
2005
Von der Feldschlacht zum Guerillakrieg : der Verlauf des Krieges und seine Schauplaetze
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Der Maji-Maji-Krieg in Deutsch-Ostafrika 1905-1907
2005
2004
Bara na pwani : historia ya Kusini Mashariki ya Tanzania, 1880 hadi 1985 = Mainland and coast: the history of southeast Tanzania, 1880-1985
Felicitas Maria Becker
Book
2004
Netzwerke and Gesamtgesellschaft : ein Gegensatz? Anregungen fuer Verflechtungsgeschichte = Networks vs the total society, a contradiction? Proposals for a history of integration
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
GESCHICHTE UND GESELLSCHAFT
2004
‘Traders, big men and prophets : political continuity and crisis in the Maji Maji rebellion in Southeast Tanzania’
Felicitas Maria Becker
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY
2004
2002
Ben R. Mtobwa's 'Dar es Salaam by night'
Felicitas Maria Becker
Bookchapter
in
Readings in African popular fiction
2002