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Rosalind Shaw |
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Associate Professor of Anthropology
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Anthropology Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D. University of London; B.A. University of Leicester |
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Transitional justice; the anthropology of mass violence and social recovery; child and youth combatants; culture and reconciliation; social memory; the Atlantic slave trade; ritual and religion; West Africa; Sierra Leone.
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| Major Awards: |
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award (2004-05), Fellowship, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University (2004-05), Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant (2004; not taken up because of alternative funding), Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research grant (2004 and 1992; 2004 grant not taken up because of alternative funding), Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace (2003-04), finalist for the Herskovitz Prize for the best scholarly work on Africa (2003), Mellon-MIT Inter-University Program research grant on NGOs and Forced Migration (2001 and 2003), Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2002), Massachusetts Cultural Council grant (2002), Massachusetts Cultural Council Gold Star Project (2002), Senior Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (1994-95), Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities, Northwestern University (1994-95), Fellowship, Bunting Institute (1992-93), Research Associateship, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University (1992-93), Tufts University Mellon Grant (1992-93; not taken up because of alternative funding), Carnegie Trust grant (Scotland, UK; 1988 and 1989), Horniman Scholarship, Royal Anthropological Institute (UK, 1978), Social Science Research Council grant (UK, 1975-1979) |
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rosalind.shaw@tufts.edu
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| Other websites: |
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http://www.usip.org/fellows/reports/2004/0429_shaw.html
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Books
2002. Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. London and New York: Routledge (jointly edited with Charles Stewart)
1992. Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa. Leiden: E.J. Brill (jointly edited with M.C. Jedrej)
Recent Major Articles and Book Chapters
2003. "Robert Kaplan and 'juju journalism' in Sierra Leone's rebel war: The primitivizing of an African conflict." In Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels (eds.), Magic and modernity: Interfaces of revelation and concealment, pp. 81-102. Stanford: Stanford University Press
2001. "Cannibal transformations: Colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland." In Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders (eds.), Magical interpretations, material realities: Modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa, pp. 50-70. New York and London: Routledge
2000. "Tok af, lef af: A political economy of Temne techniques of secrecy and self," in Ivan Karp and D.A. Masolo (eds.), African philosophy as cultural inquiry, pp. 25-49. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
1998. "The praying diviner: debating Islam and divination in postcolonial Sierra Leone," in Heike Schmidt and Albert Wirz (eds.), Africa und das andere: Alteritat und innovation ("Africa and the other: Alterity and innovation"), pp. 32-41. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, pp. 32-41.
1997. "The production of witchcraft/witchcraft as production: memory, modernity, and the slave trade in Sierra Leone," American ethnologist 24 (4):856-876
1997. "Cosmologers and capitalism: knowing history and practicing sorcery in Mayotte," Cultural dynamics 9 (2): 183-94
1996. "The politician and the diviner: divination and the consumption of power in Sierra Leone," Journal of religion in Africa, Vol.XXVI:30-55
1994. "Feminist anthropology and the gendering of religious studies;" in Ursula King (ed.), Gender and religion, pp.65-76. Oxford: Blackwell
1994. "Introduction: Problematizing syncretism" (jointly authored with Charles Stewart); in Charles Stewart and Rosalind Shaw (eds.), Syncretism/anti-syncretism: The politics of religious synthesis, pp.1-26. London and New York: Routledge.
1992. "'Nature', 'culture' and disasters: floods and gender in Bangladesh", in Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin (eds.), Bush base, forest farm: culture, environment and development, pp.200-17. London and New York: Routledge.
1992. "Introduction" to M.C. Jedrej and Rosalind Shaw (eds.), Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa, pp.1-20. Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Jointly authored with M.C. Jedrej).
1992. "Dreaming as accomplishment: power, the individual and Temne divination." In M.C. Jedrej and Rosalind Shaw (eds.), Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa, pp.36-54. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
1991. "Splitting truths from darkness: epistemological aspects of Temne divination". In Philip Peek (ed.) African divination systems: Ways of knowing, pp.137-52. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1990. "The invention of `African Traditional Religion'." Religion 20:339-353.
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