51社区

Diane Ciekawy

Diane Ciekawy, portrait
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Bentley Annex 127
International Studies
African Studies
Communication and Development
Sociology and Anthropology
ciekawy@ohio.edu
740-593-1386

Education

Ph.D.: Columbia University, 1992

Research & Specialization

  • Political Anthropology
  • Religion
  • The Anthropology of Healing
  • Colonialism
  • Human Rights
  • Development and Underdevelopment
  • Africa

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 1010: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 3490: Life History
  • ANTH 3510/5510: Political Anthropology
  • ANTH 3570/5570: Anthropology of Religion
  • ANTH 3810/5810: Cultures and Peoples of Africa
  • ANTH 4941/5941: Seminar on the Anthropology of Witchcraft
  • ANTH 4941/5941: Seminar on Reflexive Anthropology

Selected Publications

鈥淒istinctions in the Imagination of Harm in Contemporary Mijikenda Thought: The Existential Challenge of Majini,鈥漣n William C. Olsen and Walter E.A. Van Beek (eds.) Evil in Africa: Encounters with the Everyday (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015), pp. 157-174.

鈥淜ajiwe鈥檚 Witchfinding Movement and the Challenge to Swahili Cultural Hegemony,鈥 in Linda Giles and Rebecca Gearhart (eds.) Contesting Identities: The Mijikenda and their Neighbors in Kenyan Coast Society (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2013), pp. 169-188.

鈥淜atama G.C. Mkangi: Sociologist, Novelist and Poet,鈥 in Linda Giles and Rebecca Gearhart (eds.) Contesting Identities: The Mijikenda and their Neighbors in Kenyan Coast Society (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2013), pp. vii- xiii. Co-written with Kamoji Wachiira.

鈥淔ake Kaya Elders and Fake Oaths: Reflections on the Immorality of Invented Tradition in the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya,鈥 in V-Y Mudimbe and Anthony Simpson (eds.) Recontextualizing Self and Other Issues in Africa (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2013), pp. 195-233.

鈥溾楧emonic鈥 Traditions: Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya,鈥 in Kimani Njogu and John Middleman (eds.) Media and Identity in Postcolonial Africa (London: International African Institute, 2009), pp. 287-307.

鈥淧arty Politics and the Control of Harmful Magic: Moral Entrepreneurship during the Independence Era in Coastal Kenya,鈥 in James Kiernan (ed.) The Power of The Occult in Modern Africa: Continuity and Innovation in The Renewal of African Cosmologies (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006), pp. 126-152.

鈥淯tsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya,鈥 in George C. Bond and Diane Ciekawy (eds.) Dialogues of "Witchcraft": Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges (Athens: 51社区 Press, 2001), pp. 158-189.

鈥淐ontested Domains in the Dialogues of 鈥榃itchcraft鈥,鈥 in George C. Bond and Diane Ciekawy (eds.) Dialogues of "Witchcraft": Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges (Athens: 51社区 Press, 2001), pp. 1-38. Co-written with G.C. Bond.

鈥淔abricating the Occult, Distancing the Familiar,鈥 in George C. Bond and Diane Ciekawy (eds.) Dialogues of "Witchcraft": Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges (Athens: 51社区 Press, 2001), pp. 316-332. Co- written with G.C. Bond.

鈥淢ijikenda Perspectives on Freedom, Culture and Human 鈥楻ights鈥,鈥 in C.B. Mwaria, S. Federici, and J. McLaren (eds.), African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa (Greenwood Press, 2000), pp. 15-27.

鈥淲omen's 鈥榃ork鈥 and the Construction of Witchcraft Accusation in Coastal Kenya,鈥 Women's Studies International Forum 22 (2), 1999, pp. 225-235.

鈥淲itchcraft in Statecraft: Five Technologies of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Coastal Kenya,鈥 African Studies Review 41 (3), December 1998, pp. 119-141.
鈥淐ontaining Witchcraft: Conflicting Scenarios in Postcolonial Africa,鈥 African Studies Review 41 (3), December 1998, 1-14. Co-written with Peter Geschiere.

鈥淐leansing the Social Body: Witchcraft Accusation in an African Society as an Example of Multi-hierarchical Victimage,鈥 Communication Quarterly 46 (3), Summer 1998, 269-283. Co- written with Robert Westerfelhaus.

鈥淐onstitutional and Legal Reform in the Postcolony of Kenya,鈥 Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25 (2), 1997.

鈥淧olicing Religious Practice in Coastal Kenya,鈥 Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20 (1), May 1997, pp. 62-72.

鈥淗uman Rights and State Power on the Kenya Coast: A Mijikenda Perspective on Universalism and Relativism,鈥 Humanity and Society21 (2), May 1997, pp. 130-147.