ASA 2016 ASR Distinguished Lecture, Peter Geschiere

ASA 2016 ASR Distinguished Lecture, Peter Geschiere.
PETER GESCHIERE is emeritus professor for the Anthropology of Africa at both the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University; he is also co-editor of ETHNOGRAPHY (SAGE). Since 1971 he has undertaken historical-anthropological field-work in various parts of Cameroon and elsewhere in West and Central Africa. His publications include The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-colonial Africa (Univ. Of Virginia Press, 1997); Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009); Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013); and an article in African Studies Review (2012) together with Patrick Awondo and Graeme Reid ‘Homophobic Africa? Towards a More Nuanced Approach.