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Images from the field | Bruce Whitehouse, PhD

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Images from the field. Bruce Whitehouse, PhD. Exploring culture and social change. Images from the field. Click on the links below to view a few of the photos and videos I’ve taken during research in Africa between 2005 and 2010, along with brief descriptions of each. Images from the field. Center for Global Islamic Studies. Globalization and Social Change Initiative. Lehigh University Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. My Academia.edu profile. Bridges from Bamako (my Mali blog).

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About me | Bruce Whitehouse, PhD

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Images from the field. Bruce Whitehouse, PhD. Exploring culture and social change. I grew up in Swanton, Vermont. And after high school attended Carleton College. In Northfield, Minnesota where I studied English and French. Following graduation I worked in Washington, DC for a few years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Then served three years in the Peace Corps. In the West African country of Mali. See an online article. Working closely with Professor Marida Hollos. In the spring of...

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Mali | Bruce Whitehouse, PhD

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Images from the field. Bruce Whitehouse, PhD. Exploring culture and social change. The above is a 10-minute video clip about my ongoing fieldwork on marriage and gender dynamics in Bamako. The sun sets over adobe rooftops in Dougabougou (Segou region). Shaded by his followers, an imam readies to recite a verse of the Qur’an on the. One of the biggest Muslim holidays, in Dougabougou. Watering a dry-season garden plot from the same system of ditches, west of Siribala. Images from the field. Create a free w...

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Congo-Brazzaville | Bruce Whitehouse, PhD

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Images from the field. Bruce Whitehouse, PhD. Exploring culture and social change. Congo’s Muslim community is dominated by immigrants from Sahelian West Africa, particularly Mali. The Malikiyya Mosque in Poto-Poto (Brazzaville) shown here dates back to the 1950s, but recent refurbishing had added high minarets silhouetted against the sky. In 2005 Mali’s First Lady was scheduled to make a visit to Brazzaville, where the local Malian community organized a well-attended welcome for her at the airport...

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Nigeria | Bruce Whitehouse, PhD

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Images from the field. Bruce Whitehouse, PhD. Exploring culture and social change. Patani (Delta State): The owner of this shop clearly doesn’t want to sell on credit. Demands for credit by customers, particularly kinspeople and neighbors, place a huge burden on local entrepreneurs; this explains why shopkeepers in Africa are often ‘strangers’–immigrants from other regions. The motor park in Ugep (Cross River State) on market day. Used clothes (imported from Europe) are sold at auction in Ugep. Ambulant ...

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Bio | Nicholas Walton 99

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After Oxford I lived in Vienna and Budapest before finding out that you could write for money. I joined the BBC in 1996, and was mainly based in Newcastle before becoming institutionalised by the glorious BBC World Service. I also present podcast interviews with authors of books on Africa, Journalism and Europe for the New Books Network. I’m married and after living on a boat on the River Thames for three years I now live in Windsor. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. New Books on Africa.

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Cameron’s speech: three things for Europeans to note | Nicholas Walton 99

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The new political geography of Europe. Why the EU needs Britain →. January 23, 2013 · 18:26. Cameron’s speech: three things for Europeans to note. This early response to David Cameron’s EU speech first appeared on ECFR’s blog. But rather than add another voice to the cacophony, let’s take a simple look at the speech from a European perspective, and what Cameron was trying to achieve. He was making the case that the EU of the moment needs changing for its own good, not just for that of the UK. The British...

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Episode 91: African and American Ports–Solidarities in Durban and San Francisco | Africa Past & Present

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Africa Past and Present. The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics. Episode 91: African and American Ports–Solidarities in Durban and San Francisco. Boycotting South African goods, San Francisco, 1962. Used by permission of ILWU. Peter Cole ( Western Illinois. Compares Durban and San Francisco, maritime union solidarities, the anti-apartheid movement, and technological change in the two ports. Cole concludes with reflections on researching and teaching comparative history. April 28, 2015.

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language | Africa Past & Present

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Africa Past and Present. The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics. Episode 96: Creativity and Decolonization: Nigerian Cultures and African Epistemologies. Toyin Falola ( History, Texas. President, African Studies Association. On Yoruba history and culture; language policy in Nigeria; creativity and decolonization; forms of community action in “hyper-modern” times; and the meaning of Buhari’s victory in the 2015 presidential election. Africa Past and Present Episode 96. November 17, 2015.

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Menán Du Plessis | Africa Past & Present

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Africa Past and Present. The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics. Tag Archives: Menán Du Plessis. Episode 90: Language and Power–Khoesan Studies. Menán Du Plessis ( Stellenbosch University. And U of Kentucky) on her literary work, research on the Kora! Language, and the significance of Khoesan linguistics to southern African studies. Du Plessis also considers digitization efforts and the impact of mass media and the Internet on endangered African languages. This entry was posted in Africa.