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]
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Peter Lein Geschiere (born 1941) is a Dutch anthropologist, Africanist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He studied...
Inquiry. Geschiere, Peter (1997). The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Translated by PeterGeschiere and Janet...
University of California Press: 348. Duara, Prasenjit (2003). Birgit Meyer; PeterGeschiere (eds.). "Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China 1900-1945"...
original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2016. Gyanendra Pandey; PeterGeschiere (2003). The Forging of Nationhood. Manohar. p. 102. ISBN 978-81-7304-425-0...
Inquiry. Geschiere, Peter (1997). The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Translated by PeterGeschiere and Janet...
Nation-States: China 1900–1945. Globalization and Identity. Birgit Meyer and PeterGeschiere, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 2003. p 51. Goossaert, Vincent;...
Cameroon. African Books Collective. p. 39ff. ISBN 978-9956-558-23-0. PeterGeschiere; Janet Roitman (1997). The modernity of witchcraft: politics and the...
2000 J.H. Kwabena Nketia 2001 Martin A. Klein 2001 Bethwell Ogot 2002 PeterGeschiere 2003 Joseph E. Harris 2004 Francis Deng 2005 John Hunwick 2006 Bogumil...
from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2008. M. J. van Binsbergen, Wim; PeterGeschiere (2005). Commodification: Things, Agency, and Identities : (The Social...
or buried face down, in order to prevent them rising as an ekongi. Geschiere, Peter (December 1998). "Witchcraft as an Issue in the "Politics of Belonging":...
Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199588862.013.0005. Geschiere, Peter (1993). "Chiefs and colonial rule in Cameroon: inventing chieftaincy...
Politics & Culture. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Geschiere, Peter. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft. Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial...
(13th ed.). London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-10449-2. Pandey, Gyanendra; Geschiere, Peter (2003). The Forging of Nationhood. Manohar. ISBN 9788173044250. Passemiers...
history and anthropology in Cameroon Berghahn Books, 1996) online Geschiere, Peter. "Chiefs and colonial rule in Cameroon: Inventing chieftaincy, French...
Religious & Public life. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2013 Geschiere, Peter (1997). The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial...
Africa, 1844–1914. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Geschiere, Peter (1993). "Chiefs and Colonial Rule in Cameroon: Inventing Chieftaincy...
United States of America, Koreans in Japan or Samoans in New Zealand. Geschiere, Peter (2020). ""The African family is large, very large" mobility and the...
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