African Anthropology Seminar
The African Anthropology Seminar at SAI is a meeting point for scholars across disciplines with commitments to or interest in the continent. It is open to BA and MA students and faculty without registration. However, if you would like to receive a regular email invite, or if you want to participate on zoom and get a link, please let us know.
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The matter of a pith helmet out of place: Reflections on an (anti-)colonial mission portrait.
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“Not just focused on HIV care alone”: Reflections on the impact of ART expansion on visions of healthcare.
Join us for a seminar on Media Identities and Risks with Primus Tazanu
How sickled cells remember: Genetics as embodied history in Tanzania.
‘Deep Science’: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, Kenya
Fluent waterscapes in the Lake Chad basin: exploring the entanglement of drinking water and flooding
Fragments of the Forest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Endangerment in the Making of a West African Hotspot
Postcolonial styles of research diplomacy (Senegal, 1970s)
A post-industrial world in a pre-industrial landscape: generations, monuments and movements in the Congo Copperbelt
Anitha Tingira: The Maternal Referral System, Childbirth Experiences and Healthcare Providers’ Dilemmas in Usandawe, Tanzania
Fatoumata Hane: A sociohistory of disease management in Senegal: Health policies between permanency and discontinuity.
Stable Jobs, Precarious Lives: Rural Public Servants in Ethiopia
Weighting data: Hydroinformatics, drift, and the cable around the cape
On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Polarised Cityscapes: Gathering Electronic Waste and Its Malcontents in Dar es Salaam.
The Politics of DIY Urbanism on Zambia’s Copperbelt
TOXICITY : Presenting the Lubumbashi Biennale 2022
African Encounters with Modernity and Development - Agriculture and Industrialisation in Southern Africa
Activists Ignoring the Needs of Ordinary Citizens: Web-Based Citizen Participation in Conserving Urban Protected Areas in Nairobi, Kenya
Labour and living conditions in the cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya.
Fighting and fearing the Other: Notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems
Radio, mobility, and migration. A view from Kayes, Mali.
Postcolonial Psychiatry and Memory Work in a West African Clinic.