Africa

Canada

Assistant Professor

Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

marienat@sympatico.ca

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Concordia University
1455, de Maisonneuve West
Montréal
Québec
Canada
H3G 1M8

phone: (514) 848-2142
fax: (514) 848-4539

http://132.205.57.9/SocAnth/LeBlanc_web.htm

Côte d'Ivoire ; Mali.

Research interests:
- Religion in a post-colonial context (Islam and Christianity)
- ethnicity and international migration
- visual anthropology and photography
- trans-nationalism and socio-economic networks
- popular culture
- youth
- women, family and marriage

Projects:
(1) "Média visuels modernes, notions de féminité et
de masculinité, et rapports de couple à Ségou, Mali."

(2) "The construction of spaces of identification: Social and material
networks among French-speaking West Africans in Montreal, Canada,"
General Research Funds, Concordia University, 1999-2000 competition,
2000-2001 and SSHRC Special 1999-2000 competition, 1999-2000

(3) "Les processsus d'identification chez les jeunes Chrétiens et
Musulmans en Côte d'Ivoire", FCAR-Nouveau chercheur, 1999-2002
...

2000 "Fashion and the Politics of Identity: Versioning Womanhood and
Muslimhood in the face of Tradition and Modernity", Africa, 70: 3:
443-481.

2000 "From Ethnicity to Islam: Social change and processes of
identification amongst Muslim youth in Bouaké, Côte
d'Ivoire," Paideuma, 46 : 85-109.

1999 "The Production of Islamic Identities Through Knowledge Claims in
Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire," African Affairs, 98 (393):
485-508.

1996 "Géographie identitaire des individus et des institutions
d'origine malienne à Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire. Notes de
Recherche," Bulletin du GIDIS-Côte d'Ivoire, 14: 59-74.

Islam ; Christianity ; ethnicity ; migration ; popular culture ; visual anthropology ; photography.