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Interests: Courses Taught:
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Development
  • Democratization
  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Religion
  • East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania)
  • Globalization
  • Intro to Cultural Anthropology (101)
  • History of Anthropology (200)
  • Essentials of Cultural Anthropology(201)
  • Peoples of Africa (211)
  • Anthropology of Religion (224)
  • Anthropology of Development (304)


    •    Selected Publications:           Selected Publications:  

    2005  The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development. Westview Press.
     
    2002. Modern cows and exotic trees: identity, personhood, and exchange among the
    Iraqw of Tanzania.     Ethnology 41(2): 155-73.

    2001. Being of one heart: power and politics among the Iraqw of Tanzania. Africa 71(1): 128-148.

    2000. "Family: Religious and Legal Systems - East Africa." Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. Cheris Kramerae and Dale Spender volume editors.  New York: Routledge.

    1999. "Gender ideology, and the domestic and public domains among the Iraqw" Pgs. 225-253 in Those Who Play With Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and  Southern Africa. Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders, Bwire Kaare, editors. New Brunswick, NJ: Athlone Press.

    1998. Book review of Caplan, Pat. 1997. Africa Voices, Africa Lives. London and New York: Routledge. Africa Today 45:507-509.

    1997. Elders' authority and women's protest: the masay ritual and social change among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3(3): 1- 16.

    1996. Agrarian change and farmers' land-use strategies among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania.  Human Ecology 24(3): 315-340.


    Katherine Snyder   
    Associate Professor  
    Ph.D. Yale University 1993  
    On leave 2006/2007
          
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