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Mailing Address Director, Institute for Research on Women Rutgers University 131 George Street New Brunswick, New Jersey 08904-1414 USA

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Research Interests I am a historical anthropologist with long term research experience in Tanzania, working primarily with Maasai. My teaching and research interests include the following: cultural anthropology; anthropology and history; politics of development; culture and power; gender; feminist theory; social theory; ethnicity; colonialism / imperialism; missionization; social movements; indigenous rights; transnationalism; pastoralism; research methodologies including feminist methodologies; East Africa.

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Publications * 2007 Co-editor, with Ethel Brooks, of Activisms. Special issue of Women.s Studies Quarterly 35(3&4) 2005 The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003 .Women.s Rights as Human Rights: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF).. Special issue of Africa Today on Women, Language and Law 49(2): 1-26. 2002 Editor of Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas. Special Focus Section of American Anthropologist 104(4). 2002 .Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas.. American Anthropologist 104(4): 1037-1049. 2002 .Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania.. American Anthropologist 104(4): 1086-1097. 2002 .Dilemmas of Counter-mapping Community Resources in Tanzania.. Development and Change 33(1): 79-100 (with Richard Schroeder). 2001 Once intrepid warriors: gender, ethnicity, and the cultural politics of Maasai development. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2001 Editor of Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Palgrave. 2001 Co-editor, with Sheryl A. McCurdy, of "Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann ; Oxford, UK: James Currey ; Cape Town: David Philip. 2000 Editor of Rethinking pastoralism in Africa: gender, culture & the myth of the patriarchal pastoralist. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press ; Oxford, UK: James Currey. 1999 "Critical Interventions: Dilemmas of Accountability in Contemporary Ethnographic Research." Special issue of IDENTITIES entitled "Unintended Consequences: On the Practice of Transnational Cultural Critique." 1999 "Images and Interventions: The Problems of Pastoralist Development." In David M. Anderson and Vigdis Broch-Due, eds., The poor are not us: poverty and pastoralism in East Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; London: James Currey. 1999 "Pastoralism, Patriarchy and History: Changing Gender Relations Among Maasai in Tanganyika, 1890-1940." Journal of African History 40(1):41-65. 1997 "Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and Spirit Possession among Maasai in Tanzania." In Maria Grosz-Ngate and Omari Kokole, eds., Gendered encounters: challenging cultural boundaries and social hierarchies in Africa. New York & London: Routledge, pps. 111-129.

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