Post Colonialism
Specialists
- Anne-Maria Makhulu
- Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies
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Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the ...
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- Charles Piot
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies and Women's Studies
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I do research on contemporary culture and politics, as well as on histories of slavery and colonialism, in francophone West Africa. My first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999) attempted to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. My new book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After ...
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- Harris Solomon
- Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health
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I am interested in connections between the body, its environments, and longevity in India, specifically in the context of chronic illness in Mumbai. As India becomes increasingly portrayed as the site of an "epidemiological transition" -- a shift from infectious to chronic disease burdens said to accompany economic development -- my research questions ...
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- Orin Starn
- Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History
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Orin Starn is Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History. He has wide-ranging interests including Latin America, Native North America, social movements and indigenous politics, the history of anthropology, activist anthropology, and, more recently, sports and society. His newest book, "The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports ...
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