A lma Gottlieb (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Submitted: Wed, 27 August 2003


Alma Gottlieb
Professor
Department of Anthropology
109 Davenport Hall
607 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois  61801   USA

phone:   217-244-3515
fax:     217-244-3490
E-mail:  ajgottli@uiuc.edu


Web site: http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/gottlieb/


Alma Gottlieb is professor of anthropology, African studies and women's studies
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently president of
the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.  Gottlieb has held fellowships from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and many other agencies.  Her
major field research has been among the Beng people of Côte d'Ivoire.  
Her current interests concern indigenous religious traditions, and infants and
young children.


Major Publications:

Forthcoming. The Afterlife
Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa (2004).  

A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies (ed. with Judy
DeLoache) (Cambridge U. Press, 2000)

Beng-English Dictionary (with M. Lynne Murphy) (Indiana U. Linguistics
Club, 1996) 

Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa (with
Philip Graham) (U. of Chicago Press, 1994) 

Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought (Indiana U. 
Press, 1992) 

Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation (ed. with Thomas Buckley) 
(U. of California Press, 1988)