Donna O. Kerner (Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts)

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Donna O. Kerner
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology/Anthropology
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts  02766  USA

phone:  508-286-3658
fax:    508-286-3640
e-mail: dkerner@wheatonma.edu


Co-ordinator, African American/African Studies Program

Education:
B.A., Kirland College; M.A., New York University;
M.Phil. & Ph.D., City University of New York-Graduate Center, 1988.

Research and Teaching Interests:
Ethnography of East Africa; Political Economy; Gender, Development, and
Micro-enterprise; Famine and Food Security; Memory and Material Culture

Recent Publications

1997  Review of Abiodun, Drewal and Pemberton (eds.)  "The Yoruba Artist"
WORD AND IMAGE, 13:1.

1995  "Chaptering the Narrative," in  THE LABYRINTH OF MEMORY:
ETHNOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS, M.C. Teski and J.C. Climo (eds.) Westport, CT:
Bergin & Garvey, pp 113-128.

1994 "The Material of Memory on Kilimanjaro:  Mregho Sticks and the
Exegisis of the Body Politic," PASSAGES 7:3-7.

1992  (with F.A. Macha, E.M. Minde, and M. Msonganzila) "Enabled or
Invisible?  The Role of Women in the Co-operative Movement Transition
(Tanzania),"  TUSHIRIKIANE JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE STUDIES, Special Issue
(May), pp 76-96.

1991 (with R.E. Downs and S.P. Reyna , co-editors)  THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF AFRICAN FAMINE, Philadelphia:  Gordon and Breach.

1989 (with K. Cook)  "Gender and Food Shortage in Tanzania," FEMINIST
ISSUES, 9:1:57-72.

1988  "Land Scarcity and Rights of Control in the Development of
Commercial Farming in Northeast Tanzania,  in LAND AND SOCEITY IN
CONTEMPORARY AFRICA, R.E. Downs and S.P. Reyna (eds.), Hanover:
University of New England Press, pp 159-191.

1988  "'Hard Work' and Informal Sector Trade in Tanzania," in TRADERS VS
THE STATE:  ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO UNOFFICIAL ECONOMIES, G. Clark
(ed.), Boulder:  Westview Press, pp. 41-56.