Adeline Masquelier

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Adeline Marie Masquelier (born 1960) is a French-American anthropologist with a focus on Africa.

biography

Adeline Masquelier comes from Lyon . She received the Baccalauréat in Biology and Physics in 1978 with distinction from the Lycée Saint-Marc de Lyon , France. In 1980 she earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 1993 Adeline Masquelier graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a Masters in Anthropology . She received her Ph.D. 1993 at the University of Chicago , where she studied with the prominent Africanists and anthropologists Jean Comaroff studied. In 1993 she was made visiting assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and in the same year assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans , Louisiana . In 1999 Adelina Masquelier became Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University and, in 2008, Professor of Anthropology there .

Adeline Masquelier worked with grants from various non-university organizations, including the National Institute of Mental Health , National Science Foundation , Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research , American Council of Learned Societies , National Endowment for the Humanities and Africa Study Center, Leiden / Center d ' Étude d'Afrique noire, Bordeaux . She has received university scholarships from Southern Illinois University , University of Chicago , Tulane University, Tulane Lilly Endowment Teaching, Tulane University Newcomb Foundation, William L. Duren Jr. '26 Professorship together with Steven Pierce, Barbara Greenbaum Newcomb, and Georges Lurcy Fund.

In 2005 Adeline Masquelier received the Provost's Award for Research and Scholarly Excellence . In 2007 she received the Tulane Research Enhancement Fund Award, Phase II .

She conducted field studies with the residents of rural Niger in the mostly Hausa- inhabited town of Dogondoutchi . Her research has focused on obsession , reformed Islam , religious practices of bori , twins , witchcraft , anorexia , medical anthropology, and gender characteristics, among others . In 2016 she researched the Islamic movement Izala in Niger, in particular phenomena such as bride money , church services and clothing.

Works

Books

  • Prayer Has Spoiled Everything. Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger . Duke University Press, Durham 2001, ISBN 978-0-8223-2639-7 (English).
  • Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 2005, ISBN 978-0-253-21783-7 (English).
  • Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 2009, ISBN 978-0-253-21513-0 (English).
  • Bori: Healers of the Soul . Five Continents Editions, Milan 2011, ISBN 978-88-7439-565-1 (English).

items

  • Encounter with a Road Siren: Machines, Bodies, and Commodities in the Imagination of a Mawri Healer . In: Visual Anthropology Review . tape 8 , no. 1 , 1992, p. 56-69 , doi : 10.1525 / var . 1992.8.1.56 (English).
  • Lightning, Death, and the Avenging Spirits: Bori Values ​​in a Muslim World . In: Journal of Religion in Africa . tape 24 , no. 1 , 1994, ISSN  0022-4200 , pp. 2-51 , doi : 10.1163 / 157006694X00020 (English).
  • Consumption, Prostitution, and Reproduction: The Poetics and Power of Sweetness in Bori . In: American Ethnologist . tape 22 , no. 4 , 1995, p. 883–906 , doi : 10.1525 / ae.1995.22.4.02a00120 (English).
  • Vectors of Witchcraft: Object Transactions and the Materialization of Memory in Niger . In: Anthropological Quarterly . tape 70 , no. 4 , 1997, p. 187-198 , doi : 10.2307 / 3317225 (English).
  • Some Further Thoughts on Knowledge, Practice, and Morality . In: Cultural Dynamics . tape 9 , no. 2 , 1997, p. 195-201 , doi : 10.1177 / 092137409700900206 (English).
  • Of Headhunters and Cannibals: Migrancy, Labor, and Consumption in the Mawri Imagination . In: Cultural Anthropology . tape 15 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 84–126 , doi : 10.1525 / can. 2000.15.1.84 (English).
  • Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Facade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger . In: Public Culture . tape 13 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 267-291 (English, Project MUSE ).
  • The Powers, Problems, and Paradoxes of Twinship in Niger . In: Ethnology . tape 40 , no. 1 , 2001, p. 45-62 , doi : 10.2307 / 3773888 (English).
  • Road Mythographies: Space, Mobility, and the Historical Imagination in Postcolonial Niger . In: American Ethnologist . tape 29 , no. 4 , 2002, p. 829-56 , doi : 10.1525 / ae.2002.29.4.829 (English).
  • From Hostage to Host: Confessions of a Spirit Medium in Niger . In: ethos . tape 30 , no. 1 , 2002, p. 49–76 , doi : 10.1525 / eth.2002.30.1-2.49 (English).
  • The Scorpion's Sting: Youth, Marriage, and the Struggle for Social Maturity in Niger . In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute . tape 11 , no. 1 , 2005, doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-9655.2005.00226.x (English).
  • Why Katrina's Victims Aren't Refugees: Musings on a “Dirty” Word . In: American Anthropologist . tape 108 , no. 4 , 2006, p. 735-743 , doi : 10.1525 / aa.2006.108.4.735 (English).
  • When Female Spirits Start Veiling: The Case of the Veiled She-Devil in a Muslim Town of Niger . In: Africa Today . tape 54 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 39-64 (English).
  • Witchcraft, Blood-Sucking Spirits, and the Demonization of Islam in Dogondoutchi . In: Cahiers d'Études Africaines . tape 48 , 2008, p. 131-160 , doi : 10.2307 / 40379913 (English).

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personal data
SURNAME Masquelier, Adeline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Masquelier, Adeline Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960