Eugene L. Mendonsa (University of Colorado, Denver)

Submitted: Wed, 13 March 2001


Eugene L. Mendonsa
Professor of Anthropology
P.O. Box 173364
CB 103, UCD Anthropology
University of Colorado
Denver, Colorado  80217-3364  USA

phone:  303-556-6040
fax:    303-556-8501
e-mail: emendons@carbon.cudenver.edu

   
Website: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~emendons/



September 1999 to present:  Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department
of Anthropology at the University of Colorado (Denver and Boulder)

September 1997 - May 1999:  Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology, Brigham Young University

September 1997 - August 1999:  Director, African Studies, Brigham Young
University.

July 1984 to present:  Applied anthropologist, Action Anthropology, Inc.
[Doing training seminars and consulting for Fortune 500 companies.]


Teaching and research interests: 

Sisala ; northern Ghana ; religion ; social organization ; applied
anthropology.


Selected publications:

Continuity and change in a West African society: Sisala elders, women and
youth. Forthcoming Spring, 2001.  Carolina Academic Press.

West Africa: social organization and political economy. Forthcoming
Spring 2002.  Carolina Academic Press.  [Textbook]

The politics of divination. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California
Press, 1982.  [Reprint available from Authors Choice Press of New York.]


Film productions:

Sisala divination: the mystic tradition.  Videorecording. Produced by
Joseph Pia of Utopia Production, Inc.  VHS format.  2000.

Emerging Sisala women.  Videorecording.  Produced by Brigham Young
University Motion Picture Studies and Utopia Production, Inc.  VHS format.
2000.