Oral Presentation Session - Volunteered

Reviewed by: Association for Africanist Anthropology

(6-0085) Local Knowledge, Global Currents, and the Contested Terrains of Agency: Case Studies from Africa

Chair(s)

• Mary Hallin

  University of Nebraska, Omaha

Presenter(s)

• Mary Hallin

  University of Nebraska, Omaha

• Eva Krah

  Utrecht University

• Amy Nichols-Belo

  Assistant Professor
  Mercer University

• Brian Smithson

  Visiting Assistant Professor
  Bowdoin College

• Monica Udvardy

  University of Kentucky

Participant(s)

• Scott Youngstedt

  Professor of Anthropology
  Saginaw Valley State University

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

  The Project of Normality: Spirituality, Marginality and the Moral Survival of Street Children in Bukavu, The Democratic Republic of Congo
  Eva Krah – Utrecht University
• 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

  Itinerant Medicine Vendors on the Streets of Niamey, Niger: A Practical Option or a Public Health Menace?
  Scott M. Youngstedt – Saginaw Valley State University
• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

  Interrupting Veneration of the Ancestors: The Paradoxes of Commemorating the Return of Stolen Spirit-Statues in Kenya
  Monica Udvardy – University of Kentucky
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

  Local Religions, International Aesthetics: Rival Means of Production in West African Video Filmmaking
  Brian C. Smithson – Bowdoin College
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

  “Healing in a spiritual way:” The Meanings of Revivals in Contemporary Mwanza, Tanzania
  Amy B. Nichols-Belo – Mercer University
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

  Epidemic Interventions: Bi-Directional and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange
  Mary J. Hallin – University of Nebraska, Omaha