Christover M. Annear (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)

Submitted:  Thu, 22 May 2008 15:24:43 -0700 (PDT)


Christopher M. Annear
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, Massachusetts  02215

Mail address:
41 Pennsylvania Avenue, Apt 2
Somerville, Massachusetts  02145  USA

phone:  857-389-6143
fax:    617-353-2610
e-mail: cannear@bu.edu
        pompwe@yahoo.com


I am an environmental and symbolic anthropologist with a strong empirical 
and theoretical foundation in Southern and Central Africa.  I teach 
courses on Africa, the social and biophysical environment, and 
anthropological theory.  My research and writing to date has focused on 
the Mweru-Luapula region of northern Zambia and urban life in and around 
Lusaka.

My dissertation, entitled "Weathering the Commons: Resilience and 
Heterogeneity in an Inland Fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia," will be 
defended in October 2008.  It concerns the interplay between environmental 
and human communities in a transnational fishery in south-central Africa.  
In the dissertation I describe and analyze the impact and processes at 
play as people socialize their environments, while also discussing how 
heterogeneous communities can..contrary to popular theory..sustainably 
manage a commonly held resource. 

In addition to political ecology, I have begun a long-term project 
comparing urban and rural funeral cultures and mourning rites in Zambia.


Publications:

"Navigating Constricted Channels: Local Cooption, Coercion, and 
Concentration under Co-management, Mweru-Luapula Fishery, Zambia," Journal 
of Political Ecology (accepted, in press).

"'GM or Death': Food and Choice in Zambia," Gastronomica: The Journal 
of Food and Culture (peer reviewed), Spring 2004, 4(2): 16-23.
[Also published as: Boston University African Studies Center Working Paper 
No. 247.]

"'Legislating Liverpool': The Role of Law in the Development and 
Conservation of the Mweru-Luapula Fishery, Zambia." In Ann Seidman, Robert 
B. Seidman, Pumzo Mbana, and Hanson Hu Li, eds. 2007. Africa's Challenge: 
Using Law for Good Governance and Development.  Trenton, NJ: Africa World 
Press, Inc., pp. 175-220.


Keywords: Anthropology, Zambia, political ecology, environment, mortuary 
rites, funerals, Chibemba