Peter Probst (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts)

Submitted: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:59:19 -0400


Peter Probst
Associate Professor
Tufts University

Mail address: 
Department of Art History
11 Talbot Avenue
Medford, Massachusetts  02155  USA

phone:       617 627 2939
fax:         617 627 3890
e-mail:      peter.probst@tufts.edu

Web-page: http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=pprobs01&deptId=arthistory


Teaching and Research interests:
African Art and Visual Culture ; Critical Theory, Modernity and Heritage ; 
Fieldwork among Yoruba in Nigeria and Chewa in Malawi.


Publications:

Producing Presence. The Art of Heritage in a Yoruba City.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming

Kalumbas Fest. Geschichte, Lokalität und Rituelle Praxis in Malawi.
Münster; Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2005

Between Resistance and Expansion. Explorations of Local Vitality in
Africa and Beyond. (ed. with Gerd Spittler). Münster; Berlin; 
Rochester: LIT & Transaction Publishers, 2004