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Individuals indicated by an asterisk (*)
have been invited by the ASA Board of Directors, the Program Committee, or the
Local Arrangements Committee to serve in a multiple capacity.
Session
X
Sunday, 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
(X-A10) Gender Relations, Healthcare, and
Education
Chair:
Beverly Mack, U of Kansas, Medicines in
the Harem: Gender-specific health care in Muslim Kano, Nigeria
Solange Bandiaky, Clark U, Gender
Relations, Sexual Negotiations and HIV/AIDS Prevention in Senegal University
Campuses
Angela Bratton, Miami U, Intersections of
Teenage Pregnancy and Sex Education in
(X-B3) Marketing Identity: Ethnicity,
Nationality, and the Politics of the Art Market
Chair: Victoria Rovine, U of Florida
Sarah Adams, U of Iowa, and Sarah Adams,
U of Iowa Re-Presenting Uli
Thembinkosi Goniwe, Cornell U, Relevance
of Identity in Contemporary South African Art
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, U of Oxford,
UK, Senegalese Dancers in the Global World of Performing Arts
Victoria Rovine, U of Florida, Identity
as Style: Marketing Africa and Africanisms through Fashion
Discussant: Christopher Steiner, Connecticut
College
(X-C11) Communications in an Era of
Global Conflicts: The African Diaspora
Chair: Ritchard M'Bayo, Bowie State U
Ritchard M'Bayo, Bowie State U,
Communication and Conflict Strategies: Retrospective Look at Crises in the West
African Sub-Region
Bala Musa, Northwestern College,
Globalization, Communication, and Peace Processes in Africa - The Role of the
African Diaspora: Past, Present, and Future
Nicholls Boas, Morgan State U, Politics
and Communication in Africa: The Union between Tanganyika and Zanziba
Ibrahim Ahmadu, U of Jos, Interreligious
Dialogue and Conflict Transformation in Africa: The Role of Internal and
External Communities
Jerry Domatob, College of New Rochelle,
Communication, Conflict and Peace-Making in Sub-Saharan Africa
(X-E2) Taxation and State-Building in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Chair: Deborah Brautigam, American U
Deborah Brautigam, American U,
Colonialism, Capacity, and Consent: Building a Democratic Fiscal State in
Mauritius
Odd Fjeldstad, Chr. Michelsen Institute,
Mass Taxation and State-Society Relations in Anglophone Africa
David Hirschmann, American U, Changing
Context, Credible Commitment, and Conflicting Purposes: Incentives to Pay and
Collect Tax in Africa
Kimuli Kasara, Stanford U, Tax Me If You
Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation of Agriculture in Africa
(X-E10) Islam and West Africa/Islam in
West Africa [Sponsored by the ASA/MESA]
Chair: Mahir Saul, U of Illinois, Urbana -
Champaign
Elliott Skinner, Columbia U, Islam and
the Future Ideology for Africa and its Diaspora
Robert Launay, Northwestern U, Islam and Civil
Strife in Cote d'Ivoire
Donna Perry, Gettysburg College, Heterodox
Islams in a Senegalese Hinterland
Mahir Saul, U of Illinois, Urbana -
Champaign, Islam and West African Anthropology
Discussant: Michael Lambek, U of Toronto - LSE
(X-E22) Roundtable: Searching for a
Dynamic Understanding of Resoures in Rural Africa: An Economic History Approach
Chair:
(X-E44) Roundtable: Projects, Products,
and Services: A Look at Africa Health Policies in Practice [Sponsored by the
Local Arrangements Committee]
Chair: Princeton Lyman, Council on Foreign
Relations
Princeton Lyman, Council on Foreign Relations
Zeda Rosenberg, International Partnership for
Microbicides
Malick Diara, NetMark Plus
John Williams, GWU
(X-I7) Ethnographic Turns and Cognitive
Dissonance: Exploring Science, Magic, Healing, and Race
Chair: Helen Tilley, Princeton U
Helen Tilley, Princeton U, Colonial
States, the Technical Services, and Ethnographic Research Priorities:
Disentangling Drives to Modernize from Drives to Understand African Health and
Healing
Duana Fullwiley, NYU, Localized
Biologies: French Geo-genetic Typing and the Political Bounds of Race and
Disease Nomenclature in Dakar
Adam Ashforth, Institute for Advanced
Study, Spiritual Insecurity and the Cultural Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS
Epidemic in South Africa
John Janzen, U Of Kansas, Etiological
Dualism in Public Health Crises in Central Africa
Discussant: Megan Vaughan, U of Cambridge
(X-K4)
Chair: Abdul-Rasheed Na Allah, Western Illinois
U
Obi Nwakanma, St.
Abdul-Rasheed Na Allah,
(X-L2) Rethinking Citizenship in Africa
[Sponsored by the West Africa Research Association]
Chair: *Catherine Boone, U of Texas - Austin
*Catherine Boone, U of Texas - Austin,
Land Tenure Reform and the Future of Citizenship
Sheldon Gellar, Indiana U, Polycentric
Patterns of Citizenship: Religious Communities and the State in Africa
Susanna Wing, Haverford College, Legal
Reform, Political Incentives, and Citizenship in Mali
Jennifer Seely, SUNY - Potsdam,
Citizenship Laws in Anglophone and Francophone African States
Discussant: Jeffrey Herbst, Princeton U
(X-M9) Trade and African Economies
Chair: Aaron Tesfaye, William Patterson State U
of New Jersey
Gregory White, Smith College, The 2004
US-Moroccan Free Trade Agreement: The Political Economy of Morocco's
Agricultural Sector
Aaron Tesfaye, William Patterson State U of New
Jersey, Implementing the New Partnership for Africa's Development
(NEPAD):
B. Ikubolajeh Logan, Pennsylvania State
U, The New Global Diamond World Order and Post-Civil War Sierra Leone: Is
the
(X-M10) Livelihood Strategies and Urban
Economies: Health, Schooling, and Employment
Chair: Lisa Cliggett, U of Kentucky
Lisa Cliggett, U of Kentucky, The Costs
of Livelihood Diversification: Exploring Zambian Teachers Alternative Income
Generation
'Dimeji Togunde, Albion College, Children's
Economic Production: Implications for Health and Schooling in Urban Nigeria
Daniel Mains, Emory U, We Live Like
Chickens, We are Just Eating and Sleeping: Aspirations and Progress among
Unemployed Young Men in Jimma, Ethiopia
Caroline Kihato, WITS, Invisible Lives,
Inaudible Voices: The Social Conditions of Migrant Women in Johannesburg
Discussant: Lillian Trager, U of Wisconsin -
Parkside
(X-N4) The Gender Dimension of Education
and Development
Chair: Eliza Johannes, U of IL
Eliza Johannes, U of IL, Marginalized
Pastoralist Groups in Education: An Analysis of Turkana Women and Access to
Education in Northern Kenya
Dorothy S. Akubue-Brice, Lynchburg
College, The Great Commission, Conversion and the Empowerment of Women
Discussant: Howard Stein
(X-YSP6)
Violence, Appropriation, and Relations of Super/Subordination
Chair: *Carolyn Brown, Rutgers U
Stacey Hynd, Oxford U, ...in a humane and
decorous manner: Capital Punishment and Colonial Rule in British Africa, ca.
1890-1965
Jeremy Pool, Emory U, Diagnosing the
Nature of the Threat: The 1948 Student Strikes and the Contested Nature of
Youth Politics in Late-Colonial Ghana
Mellissa Betts, UCLA, Townships, Cities,
and Space: Problematizing Namibian Historiography
Session
XI
Sunday, 11:15 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.
(XI-B13) Representing the Body/Politic
Chair: Allyson Purpura, National Museum of
African Art
*Tejumola Olaniyan, U of Wisconsin -
Madison, Political Cartooning in Africa: Representing the Body Politic
Sara Byala, Harvard U, (Re)presenting the
African Body: MuseumAfrica in a Changing South Africa
Allyson Purpura, National Museum of African
Art, Up Close at a Distance: Historic Postcards from Zanzibar
Leora Maltz, Harvard U, and Gemma
Rodrigues, Harvard U Representing the Body Politic in 20th-Century African Art
and Visual Culture
(XI-C15) State HIV/AIDS Policies and
Their Effects on Citizens
Chair: Henry Wambuii, Central Missouri State U
Henry Wambuii, Central Missouri State U,
Disease and Discrimination: HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Kenya
Frederick Appah, West Virginia U,
HIV/AIDS Policy Responses: Comparative Politics in South Afirca and Nigeria
Margaret Ntakalimaze, Effects of HIV/AIDS
on the Girl Child: The Uganda Experience
(XI-E5) Roundtable: The Political
Imagination in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Chair:
(XI-E21) The Political Economy of Sudan:
Old and New
Chair: Lako Tongun, Pitzer College
Lako Tongun, Pitzer College, Contending
Conceptualization of the New Sudan: SPLM/A and NIF Regime
Benaiah Yongo-Bure, Kettering U, The Dual
Banking System and the Transformation of the Sudan Economy
Asafa Jalata, The U of Tennessee,
Knoxville, State Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and
Sudan
Philip Roessler, U of Maryland,
Neopatrimonialism and State-Dissident Bargaining in Africa, with Evidence from
Sudan
(XI-E32) The Politics of Development and
Technology Transfer
Chair: Maurice Amutabi, U of Illinois
Maurice Amutabi, U of Illinois, and
Maurice Amutabi, U of Illinois Mercenaries of Globalization or Missionaries of
Development: The Paradox of NGOs in Kenya's Development History
Loren Landau, U of the Witwatersrand, The
Uncaptured Urbanite: Migration, Regulation, and Political Community in Africa
Jeremiah Dibua, Morgan State U,
Technology and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Endogenous Versus Exogenous
Technology
Clifford Missen, U of Iowa - The WiderNet
Project, Neocolonial Networks: Internet-centric ICT at sub-Saharan
African Universities
(XI-E34) Rethinking Africa: Education,
Knowledge, and Scholarship
Chair: Scott Lacy, U of California - Santa
Barbara
Scott Lacy, U of California - Santa
Barbara, Africa and Anthropology in a New Age of Empire
Jonathan Sears, Queen's U, Self-Knowledge
and the Return to Virtue: Islam and Citizen Identity Formation in Mali
Katherine Luongo, U of Michigan,
Kutengenza the White Man: Possession and Prophecy among the Kamba of Colonial
Kenya
Jamaine Abidogun, Southwest Missouri State
U, Issues of Culture in Education for Senior Secondary Students in
Nsukka, Nigeria
(XI-I4) Health Care in South
Africa: Experiment and Experience
Chair: Marcia Wright, Columbia U
Alan Jeeves, Queen's U, The Role of
Health Assistants and Health Educators in South Africa's Experiments with
Primary Health Care in the 1930s and 40s
*Shula Marks, SOAS, U of London, South
Africa's Experiment in Social Medicine: International Influences, Global Impact
Ben Carton, George Mason U, Quarantine
and Syringe: Bovine Plague and Colonial Public Health in South Africa
Simonne Horwitz, U of Oxford, Experiment
and Experience: The Development of Medical Specialities at Baragwanath
Hospital, Soweto, 1948-1990
(XI-J3) Rethinking the Medical:
Affliction, Tradition, Pluralism
Chair: Mara Leichtman, Michigan State U
Mara Leichtman, Michigan State U, Religion,
Migration and Medicine Men: Lebanese Traditional Medicine in Senegal
Winifred Akoda, U of Calabar,
Medical Pluralism In Southern Nigeria: Continuity and Change
David Gordon, U of Maryland, Healing the
Past: Violence and Memory in Zambia's Lumpa Church
Erin Augis, Ramapo College, Hijab as
Healing Discourse: Senegalese Women Explain Spiritual Conversion to a Sunni
Islamist Movement
Worku Nida, UCLA, The Socio-cultural
Construction of Illness and Healing: Fertility Goddess, the Spiritually-inflicted
Illness of Zit, and Healing Ritual Practices among the Gurage of Ethiopia
(XI-L3) Roundtable:
Chair:
(XI-M4) Is Settling Good for
Pastoralists? Health, Economic, and Political Consequences in Northern Kenya
Chair: Elliot Fratkin, Smith College
Martha Nathan, Tufts U, and Elliot Fratkin,
Smith College, Changes in Maternal and Child Nutrition and Morbidity Among
Recently Settled Rendille Pastoralists
Eric Roth, U of Victoria, Onset of
Contraception Use in an Ariaal Community
Masako Fujita, Maternal VitaminA
Deficiency in a Settled Ariaal Community in Northern Kenya: A Direction for
Future Research
Karen Witsenburg, U of Amsterdam, and
Wario Adano, U of Amsterdam and Ton Dietz, U of Amsterdam The Acquisition of
Farm Land by Settled Pastoralists
Wario Adano, U of Amsterdam, and Karen
Witsenburg, U of Amsterdam and Ton Dietz, U of Amsterdam Pastoral
Sedentarization and Efforts of Wealth Accumulation in Northern Kenya
Ton Dietz, U of Amsterdam, and Wario
Adano, U of Amsterdam and Karen Witsenburg, U of Amsterdam Natural Resources and
Conflicts: Theoretical Flaws and Empirical Evidence from Northern Kenya
Discussant: John Galaty, McGill U
(XI-N5) Roundtable: Le Long Voyage de la
Femme du Fleuve: Adrian Adams and the Kungani Archive [Sponsored by the West
Africa Research Association]
Chair: Brett O'Bannon, DePauw U
Brett O'Bannon, DePauw U
Allison Davis, U of Arizona
Papa Meissa Dieng, Universite Gaston Berger
Ellen Foley, U of Pennsylvania
Scott Pennington, Michigan State U - MATRIX
(XI-P3) Courts, Fields, and Verandahs:
Space, Spectacle, and the Law in Zanzibar After the Revolution
Chair: Gary Burgess, Hampton U
Gary Burgess, Hampton U, A Field of
Dreams: Festivals in Revolutionary Zanzibar
Erin Stiles, Cal State U, Khul in
Context: Strategies of Divorce in the Islamic Courts of Zanzibar
Roman Loimeier, U of Bayreuth, A Good
Place to Sit: The Baraza in Zanzibar
Jan-Georg Deutsch, U of Oxford, The Art
of Coffee Making: The Emergence of Civic Life in Zanzibar Stone Town After the
Revolution
(XI-P28) Social Institutions and Social
Control: Courts, Secret Societies, and Juju
Chair: Elke Stockreiter, SOAS - U of London
Elke Stockreiter, SOAS - U of London,
Rediscovering Zanzibar's Social History: An Interdisciplinary Approach Through
the Kadhi's Courts
Michael Mbabuike, CUNY - Hostos Community
College, The Long Juju and Social Control in Traditional Igboland: The
Aro Deities and the Dynamics of Resistance Against the British Colonial Thrust
David Iyam, Whittier College,
Pan-Religious Mechanisms in African Social Organization: Secret Societies as a
Foundational Factor in African Social Systems
(XI-YSP4) Political and Economic
Consequences of the Democratic Transition in
Chair: *
Wonbin Cho, Michigan State U, Popular
Democratic Satisfaction and Electoral system in Lesotho
David Thomas, Queen's U, Hegemonic
Struggle in Post-Apartheid South Africa: the Role of the South African
Communist Party (SACP)
Christopher Gore, U of Toronto, Circuits
of Governance, Networks of Infrastructure: The Politics and Process of
Electricity Provision in Uganda