l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor of Anthropology

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

dhodgson@rci.rutgers.edu

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

phone: 732-932-0633
fax: 732-932-1564

http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/hodgson.shtml

Tanzania

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.

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.

cultural anthropology ; politics of development ; gender ; feminist theory ; social theory.