Joan Vincent (Barnard College, Columbia University, New York)

Submitted:  Thurs, 18 September 2003


Joan Vincent
Emeritus Professor
Department of Anthropology
Barnard College
Columbia University

Mail address:
456 Riverside Drive, 12E
New York, New York  10027   USA

E-mail:   jv167@columbia.edu



Consultancies, research and writing relating to Uganda, with special 
attention to postcolonial political developments.

Currently working on a publication on "war, famine, democracy,
development, and AIDS"; with field data from Rakai and Teso in Uganda.

1988 to the present, collaboration with George C. Bond on 'AIDS in 
Uganda'.


Publications

Books

Editor. Reader's companion to The anthropology of politics.  
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming 2004.

"Political anthropology", Routledge social science encyclopedia. 
New York; London: Routledge, forthcoming 2004.

Editor. The anthropology of politics: a reader in ethnography, theory 
and critique.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Co-editor with George C. Bond. AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean: case 
studies of an epidemic.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

Anthropology and politics: visions, traditions, and trends. 
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, c1990.

Teso in transformation: the political economy of peasant and class in 
eastern Africa.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, c1982.

African elite: the big men of a small town. New York: Columbia 
University Press, 1971.


Recent articles

"War in Uganda: north and south," Deadly developments: capitalism, 
states and war. Ed. by S.P. Reyna and R.E. Downs.  Amsterdam: Gordon 
and Breach, c1999.

"On law and hegemonic moments," Contested states: law, hegemony, and
resistance. Ed. by Mindie Lazarus-Black and Susan F. Hirsch.  
New York; London: Routledge, 1994. (Ch. 4)

"Sovereignty, legitimacy and power: the colonial state in early modern 
Uganda," State formation and political legitimacy.  1988.