Sabine Jell-Bahlsen (Dialectical Anthropology, San Antonio, Texas)

Submitted:  Thursday, 13 December 2007


Dr. Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
Editor in Chief
Dialectical Anthropology
343 E. Huisache Avenue
San Antonio, Texas  78212  USA

phone:   210-785-2865
e-mail:  Sabinejb@aol.com


Website: http://www.sabine-jell-bahlsen.com/


Sabine Jell Bahlsen is the author of The Water Goddess in Igbo 
Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake (Africa World Press, 2007).  She is 
also currently editing a volume on The Igbo World: Ethnicity, National 
Identity and Globalization in the Age of Rapid Transformation, with 
P. Chudi Uwazurike.

Her published articles and reviews appear in the journals, Research in 
African Literatures, Dialectical Anthropology, the International Journal 
of African Historical Studies, in African Profiles International Magazine, 
in The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Nature (2005), and in anthologies 
including Education, Culture and Development (2006); African Spirituality 
(2000); Sisterhood, Feminisms and Power (1998); Emerging Perspectives on 
Flora Nwapa (1998); Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses and Power (1997); 
Principles of Visual Anthropology (1996) and Ethnographic Film Making 
(1988). 

Dr. Jell-Bahlsen is the author of several ethnographic documentaries 
films, including Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria 
(1991); Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria (1994); Owu: Chidi 
Joins the Okoroshi Secret Society (1994), and Skull Art in Papua New 
Guinea (2000).

She has lectured and presented her films and research to world wide 
audiences and organized exhibitions of Papua New Guinean art and artefacts 
in Germany, and is collaborating with George Jell, a professor of 
architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology on cultural ecology 
and sustainability oriented landscape and design research.