Veiling in Africa

List of Contributors

contributors AMAl hAssAn fADlAllA is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies,andAfroamericanandAfricanStudiesattheUniversityofMichigan. Her areas of specialization include global perspectives on gender, health, and reproduction, and on gender, diaspora, and transnationalism. Her recent work also focuses on issues related to human rights, humanitarianism , and development in Africa and the diaspora. Her publications include her book, Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan, and a co-edited book, Gendered Insecurities: Health and Development in Africa 2012, as well as articles in Signs, Urban Anthropology, and Identities. her most recent research focuses on Sudanese in the diaspora. lAurAfAirisAssociateProfessorinthe departmentofHistoryatMichigan state university. her research interests focus on the cultural, religious, and social history of Zanzibar, with an emphasis on issues concerning women and gender. her book, Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945, was published in 2001. pEri M. KlEMM is Associate professor of Art history at california state University, Northridge. Her dissertation, published materials, and curated exhibitions focus on identity, dress, and the body in the horn of Africa. she has published in African Arts and her book on the historical and contemporary body art practices of Oromo women in Ethiopia and Kenya is forthcoming. HAUWA MAHdI is a researcher on gender and women at the Centre of Global Gender studies in Gothenburg and coordinator of GADnEt, a Swedish gender researchers’ network. From 1980 to 1990 she worked at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and she has been teaching African history at the Centre for African Studies in Gothenburg since 2000. Her recent publications include edited volume chapters, “Sharia in Nigeria: A Reflection on the debates,” and “Gender and Citizenship: Hausa Women’s Political Identity from the Caliphate to the Protectorate.” ADElinE MAsquEliEr is professor of Anthropology at tulane university. Based on her research in niger she has published on spirit possession, 226 contriButors Islam and Muslim identity, witchcraft, twinship, dress, and medicine. She is author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger, and editor of Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body’s Surface (Indiana University Press, 2005). Her book Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (Indiana University Press, 2009) won the 2010 Melville J. Herskovits Award. She is editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa. LESLIE W. RABINE is Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies and French at the university of california, Davis. her books include Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology; Feminism, Socialism, and French Romanticism (Indiana University Press, 1993); Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution; and The Global Circulation of African Fashion. she has also published several articles on African fashion and photography. susAn J. rAsMussEn is professor of Anthropology at the university of Houston. Her interests include religion, symbolism, aging and the life course, gender, medico-ritual specialists, and verbal art performance. She has conducted anthropological field research for approximately twenty-five years in Tuareg (Kel Tamajaq) communities of Niger and Mali, and, more briefly, among other Berber (Amazigh)–speaking expatriates and immigrants in France. Her four authored published books are Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg; The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging; Healing in Community; and Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective. ElishA p. rEnnE is Professor in the department of Anthropology and the department for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on reproductive health; the anthropology of development; gender relations; and religion and textiles, specifically in nigeria. recent publications include The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2010); Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town; Regulating Menstruation (co-edited with E. van de Walle); and Cloth That Does Not Die. José c. M. vAn sAntEn is senior lecturer and researcher at the institute of cultural and social studies, university of leiden, and until recently also a member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR) in the NWO Research Programme “Islam in Africa.” She has worked for twenty-six years in West Africa, especially in Cameroon, focusing on gen- contriButors 227 der relations within Islamic societies and processes of conversion. Her book, “They Leave Their Jars Behind”: The Conversion of Mafa Women to Islam, is being revised in an updated french version. she has also researched on environment and development issues in North and West Africa and edited the volume Development in...