Imani Tafari-Ama

Imani Tafari-Ama (born August 1, 1960 in Manchester Parish ) is a Jamaican cultural anthropologist , university professor , author and curator .

In 2002 she did her PhD in "Development Studies" at the International Institute of Social Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague. She also has a Masters in Women and Development Studies (1989) and a Bachelor in Communication with Language and Literature (1982). From 2004 to 2015 she taught at the University of the West Indies in Mona (Jamaica) in areas such as feminism , Rastafarian and cultural development .

As a Fellow of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and curator at the Flensburg Maritime Museum, she has been responsible for the exhibition Rum, Sweat and Tears since 2017 . With this exhibition, the participation of the city of Flensburg in slave labor and exploitation in the Danish West Indies (today the American Virgin Islands ) is discussed in a broad public for the first time.

Publications (selection)

• Blood, Bullets And Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica's Poverty Line . 2017, Beaten Track Publishing, ISBN 978-1786451361
• Lead in the Veins: Poetic Reflections on Life, Love and (In) justice . 2016, Beaten Track Publishing; ISBN 978-1786451132
• Up for air: the half has never been told! . 2014, ISBN 978-0964704565
• Resistance without and within: reasonings on gender relations in RastafarI . In: Michael Barnett: Rastafari in the new millennium: a Rastafari reader , 2014, ISBN 978-0815633600
• Norms and taboos of sexuality . In: Donna Weir-Soley, Opal Palmer Adisa: Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose & Essays , 2011, Peepal Tree Press, ISBN 978-1845230890
• Gender Power Dynamics in Jamaica's Ghetto Trap: Southside . In: Thanh-Dam Truong, Saskia Wieringe and Amrita Chhachhi, Engendering human security: Feminist perspectives , 2007, ISBN 978-1842777794
• Rastawoman as rebel: Case studies in Jamaica. In: Samuel Murrel: Chanting down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader , 1998, ISBN 978-1566395847

Web links

• Tafari-Ama on Facebook
• Imani Tafari-Ama's page on the UWI profile
• Exhibition rum, sweat and tears
• Setting the Skin , short documentary by Tafari-Ama

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Events detail. (No longer available online.) In: iss.nl. 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 13, 2017 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Curator Tafari-Ama on slavery: “Colonial amnesia is not possible” . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on June 13, 2017]).
3. ↑ Flensburg's colonial legacy - a lot of rum, little honor . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on June 13, 2017]).