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Beth Anne BuggenhagenAssistant Professor of Anthropology(812) 855-0617 | Email | Office
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Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago B.A. in African American and African Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa, North America, Senegal Topical Interests: circulation and value; diaspora and transnationalism; neoliberal global capital; gender; Islam and visuality Current Courses: E310 Introduction to Cultures of Africa, E400/E600 Beyond the State: Globalization and Africa Selected PublicationsProfile:As new forms of circulation come to shape our world to an unprecedented degree, understanding the historical specificities of these global processes is a central problem for anthropology. My research considers circulation, new and old, in relation to commodities, Islam, gender, translocalism, and recently, visual culture in Senegal and North America . My book manuscript in progress, Prophets and Profits: Gender, Cloth and Islam in Global Senegal , relates the global circuits of Senegalese Muslims in urban Dakar, rural Tuba/Mbacke and the North American cities of New York and Chicago to the politics of social production in Senegal.
Recently I have also addressed topics that are gaining attention within and beyond academia such as Islam, civil liberties and immigration reform and debates over new media technologies, unregulated economic networks and "terrorist" financing in the US . I have recently been involved in fieldwork in New York City on the predicaments of Senegalese Muslim traders who truck in reproductions of CDs and DVDs.
While my book manuscript focuses on the tension between women's circulation of cloth wealth, family law and the Sufi order, Tariqa Murid , my next research project takes up the problematic of what social relations produce and are reproduced through visuality (and concealment). As Islam and visuality are key concepts in the study of Africa , I consider the visual manifestations of Murid circuits of wage labor and capital through women's portraiture practices. As such I analyze the relationship between the sacred and secular realms of experience as manifested in the aesthetics of the translocal. The project, "Photographic Persuasions," is to be based on archival and field research in Senegal and New York City on the circulation of Senegalese female portraiture. Selected Publications:
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