Kamari Maxine Clarke

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Email

kamari.clarke@yale.edu

Mailing Address

Department of Anthropology
Yale University
51 Hillhouse Avenue
P.O. Box 208277
New Haven, Connecticut 06520 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 203-432-3685
fax: 203-432-3669

Websites

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~mkc32/

Countries of Specialization

Nigeria

Research Interests

Prof. Clarke was trained in Political Science-International Relations at Concordia University, Anthropology at the New School for Social
Research and the University of California-Santa Cruz, and International Law at the Yale Law School. Her areas of research are in
Nigeria and Yoruba Communities in the United States. She also works on issues related to religious nationalism and legal regulation.
She is currently working on a book on local justice and international courts: the International Criminal Court and the politics of
transnational justice.

Publications

Clarke, M. Kamari. Manuscript In Preparation. The International Criminal Court and the
Politics of Individual Responsibility: Law, Religion, and Globalization Revisited.

Clarke, M. Kamari. and Deborah Thomas, Co-Editors. Forthcoming Fall 2004.
Globalization, Race, and Cultural Production. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Clarke, M. Kamari. Forthcoming January 2004. Mapping Global Networks: Power and
Agency in the Making of Yoruba Transnational Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Clarke, M. Kamari. Forthcoming 2003. Yoruba Aesthetics and the Making of Trans-
Atlantic Imaginaries IN African Aesthetics: Essays on Beauty and Ugliness. Edited by: Sarah Nuttall.
Johannesburg, South Africa. The Prince Claus Fund: Amsterdam, and Phaidon: London,
and Kwela Books: South Africa

Clarke, M. Kamari. Forthcoming 2003 "Rethinking the Yoruba in Yoruba Cultural
Practices." IN Orisa Tradition in Local and Global Contexts. Eds. Jacob Olupona and Terry Rey.
University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI.

Clarke. M. Kamari. December 2002 Governmentality, Modernity, and the Historical
Politics of Oyo-Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism IN Anthropologica: The Journal of
the Canadian Anthropology Society. Volume 44-42. Canada

Keywords

Yoruba ; transnationalism ; globalization; culture; power; social theory; international institutions