Event Details
Proseminar Series: Adeline Masquelier
"Devils in the City: Spirit Possession, Schooling, and Spoiled Girlhood in
West Africa"
When:
Mon Sep 27 •
7:15 pm
Where:
Clark Auditorium, Fisher Science and Academic Center
Anthropologist Adeline Masquelier will discuss her research on spirit possession, gender, the body, place, and sexuality in Islamic communities of Niger. Dr. Masquelier is a professor of anthropology at Tulane University, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is the author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (2001, Duke University Press), Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (2009, Indiana University Press), and numerous other publications. Since January 2008, she has served as the Executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa.
The event will take place at 7:15 p.m. in Clark Auditorium, Fisher Science and Academic building.
