Peter Geschiere

Peter Geschiere
Geschiere in 2019
Born	1941 (age 83–84)
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropologist
Sub-discipline	African Studies

Peter Lein Geschiere (born 1941) is a Dutch anthropologist, Africanist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. ^{[1] [2]} He studied at the Free University of Amsterdam obtaining a MA in history in 1967, a MA in anthropology in 1969, and a PhD in anthropology in 1978. Geschiere performed field work in Tunisia, Zaire, French- and English-speaking Cameroon and Senegal (1968-2001), and was a lecturer (1969-1978) and senior lecturer (1978-1988) at the Free University of Amsterdam. Then he held a professorship in Non-Western History at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1985-1988) and was a researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden (1986-1988). At Leiden University Geschiere worked as Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Sub-Saharan Africa (1988-2002). From 2000 onward he was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. ^[3] Geschiere specialised on Cameroon and the comparative study of processes of change in Africa. ^[4] In 2002 he won the Distinguished Africanist Award from the US-based African Studies Association. ^[5]

Publications

Geschiere published many scholarly books and articles, including ^{[1] [4] [6]}

• Stamgemeenschappen onder Staatsgezag, Veranderende Verhoudingen in de Maka Dorpen (Z.O. Kameroen) sinds 1900, PhD thesis 1978 in Dutch. Amsterdam: Free University, 1978. Published in English as Village Communities and the State, Changing Relations among the Maka of Southeastern Cameroun since the Colonial Conquest, London/Boston: Kegan Paul International. Monographs African Studies Centre, 1982.
• with Wim van Binsbergen, eds.: Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment. Anthropological Explorations in Africa, London: Kegan Paul. Monographs from the African Studies Centre, 1985. ^[7]
• The Modernity of Witchcraft, University of Virginia Press, 1997.
• with Birgit Meyer: Globalization and identity : dialectics of flow and closure, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, 1999.
• with Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels, eds.: Readings in Modernity in Africa - Readings in African Studies, Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253351760, 2008.
• The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• with Patrick Awondo and Graeme Reid (Human Rights Watch): Homophobic Africa? – Towards a More Nuanced View, African Studies Review 55(2012), 145-168. ^[8]
• Religion’s Others: Jean Comaroff on Religion and Society, Religion and Society, 3(2012), 17-25. Special issue on Jean Comaroff's anthropology of religion.
• Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust – Africa in Comparison, University of Chicago Press, 2013.

References

1. "Prof. dr. P.L. (Peter) Geschiere, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Dep. Sociology & Anthropology". uva.nl. University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
2. "Peter Geschiere". ascleiden.nl. African Studies Centre Leiden. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
3. van der Kwaak, Anke; Spronk, Rachel; Willemse, Karin (2005). Curriculum Vitae of Peter Geschiere, in: From modern myths to global encounters. Belonging and the dynamics of change in postcolonial Africa. A Liber Discipilorum in honour of Peter Geschiere. Leiden: CNWS Publications. pp. 200–214. ISBN   90-5789-105-0.
4. "Prof.dr. P.L. (Peter) Geschiere". narcis.nl. DANS, Data archiving and networked services. Narcis. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
5. "Distinguished Africanist Award Winners". africanstudies.org. African Studies Association. Archived from the original on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
6. "Geschiere, Peter". Worldcat.org. OCLC . Retrieved 5 October 2024.
7. Guyer, Jane I. (1987). "Reviewed Work: Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa by Wim van Binsbergen, Peter Geschiere. The International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 20, No. 1 (1987), pp. 121-123". jstor.org. JSTOR   219295 . Retrieved 25 August 2022.
8. Awondo, P.; Geschiere, P.; Reid, G. (2012). "Homophobic Africa? – Towards a More Nuanced View" (PDF). pure.uva.nl. University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 25 August 2022. The recent emergence of homosexuality as a central issue in public debate in various parts of Africa has encouraged a stereotypical image of one homophobic Africa....

External links

Videos:

• Peter Geschiere: The 'Witchcraft of the House' Goes Global on YouTube. Kristian Lindegaard Svendsen. Video of a lecture on 4 December 2012 at Aarhus University. Duration 1h:41m:10s.
• Peter Geschiere. Livre 1. « Mon opinion sur l’anthropologie contemporaine et celle du passé, et ma propre trajectoire » on YouTube. Les Possédés et leurs mondes. Video of an interview by Frédéric Laugrand on 9 September 2021 at Amsterdam. Duration 26m:29s. In French.