Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208-1310
Phone: (847) 491-4826 Fax: (847) 467-1778
E-mail: KTH462@northwestern.edu
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Degree |
Discipline |
School |
Date |
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PhD |
Socio-cultural Anthropology |
University of Washington, Seattle |
1979 |
Major Influences on Professional Life:
Professor Anthony Leeds for his inspiring scholarship about urban society.
Scholars who work on the interface of local and global processes and their effects of work & gender.
Subfields of interest within Anthropology:
African studies; urban anthropology; economic anthropology; political anthropology; gender; colonial culture.
Interests in the Anthropology of Work:
Division of labor by gender, class, race; transformations of work in post-industrial society.
Informal sector and Third World urbanization.
Domestic work and ideologies of domesticity.
Regions of specialization and Languages:
Africa; southern African; urban
Major Publications:
1989. Distant Companions: Servants and their Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985. Cornell University Press.
1992, ed. African Encounters with Domesticity. Rutgers University Press.
1997. Keeping the House in Lusaka. Columbia University Press.
2000. Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. University of Chicago Press.
Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):
I am working on issues of consumption now and their ramifications on work and our understanding of production.