Edited Book Series
Culture, Religion and Psychiatry. Berlin: LIT. (with H. Basu, A. Heinz, & R. Littlewood)
Monographs
(2009). Troubled Minds: On the Cultural Construction of Mental Disorder and Normality in Southern Malawi. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Edited Volumes
(in preparation). Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Southern and Eastern Africa. (working title) (with S. Klocke-Daffa)
(2017). Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry. Berlin: LIT. (with H. Basu & R. Littlewood)
(2013). Spirits in Politics: Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies. Frankfurt: Campus. (with B. Meier)
Book Chapters
(in preparation). Introduction: On Legitimacy and Power in Contemporary Africa. In S. Klocke-Daffa & A. S. Steinforth (Eds.), Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Southern and Eastern Africa. (with S. Klocke-Daffa)
(in preparation). Beyond Good and Evil: Power, Poverty, and Moral Ambiguity in Malawi. In S. Klocke-Daffa & A. S. Steinforth (Eds.), Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Southern and Eastern Africa.
(2017). Introduction. In H. Basu, R. Littlewood, & A. S. Steinforth (Eds.), Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry (pp. 1-36). Berlin: LIT. (with H. Basu)
(2017). The Person in Between: Discourses on Madness, Money and Magic in Malawi. In H. Basu, R. Littlewood, & A. S. Steinforth (Eds.), Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry (pp. 189-205). Berlin: LIT.
(2015). Between Shrine and Courtroom: Legal Pluralism, Witchcraft, and Spirit Agency in Southeastern Africa. In H. Basu & W. Sax (Eds.), Law of Possession: Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State (pp. 55-81). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
(2013). Power and Healing in African Politics: An Introduction. In B. Meier & A. S. Steinforth (Eds.), Spirits in Politics: Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies (pp. 15-36). Frankfurt: Campus. (with B. Meier & V. Igreja)
(2013). The Spirit in the Voting Booth: Democracy and Cosmology in Malawi. In B. Meier & A. S. Steinforth (Eds.), Spirits in Politics: Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies (pp. 135-155). Frankfurt: Campus.
(2010). Verrückte Psychiater! Kosmologie, sozialer Konflikt und Heilung im südöstlichen Afrika [Mad Psychiatrists! Cosmology, Social Conflict, and Healing in Southeastern Africa]. In S. Golsabahi, B. Küchenhoff, & T. Heise (Eds.), Migration und kulturelle Verflechtung (pp. 247-255). Berlin: VWB.
(2009). Rauch des Wahnsinns: Drogenkonsum, psychische Krankheit und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in Malawi [Smoking Madness: Drug Abuse, Mental Disorder, and Social Transformation in Malawi]. In S. Golsabahi, T. Stolpe, & T. Heise (Eds.), Jeder ist weltweit ein Fremder (pp. 227-234). Berlin: VWB.
Journal Articles
(2012). Social Anthropology and Transcultural Psychiatry. Curare, 35(1+2), 17-28. (with H. Basu & N. Grube)
(2011). The Solid and the Liquid: Identifying Institutions and Fields of Healing. Curare, 34(3), 193-200.
(2011). Heiler und Geheilte: Psychische Erkrankung und Therapie in afrikanischer Perspektive [The Healer and the Healed: Mental Disorder and Therapy in an African Perspective]. Kerbe Forum für soziale Psychiatrie, 29(1), 13-15.
(2009). Whose Madness? Diverging Manifestations of Mental Illness in Dialogue. Curare, 32(1+2), 96-105.
(2008). Enslaving the Spirit: On Magic and Mental Disorder in Southern Malawi. Religion in Malawi, 15, 36-43.
(2000). Traditionelle afrikanische Medizinkonzepte: Besessenheit und Heilung im zar-bori-Kult [Traditional African Concepts of Medicine: Spirit Possession and Healing in zar and bori Cults]. Ärztezeitschrift für Naturheilverfahren, 5, 302-312. (with F. Diederich & E. T. Peuker)
