Over a twenty five year period I made and own the Worlds largest and most comprehensive library of ethnographic films. The films were made Discovery and National Geographic in the US and have been licensed and broadcast across the World. .Distribution to television is managed by National Geographic on a World Wide basis. The films are not available on DVD or On line anywhere in the World at present. I kept these rights back historically because I wanted to make sure that they were used exclusive… Continue

I am putting together a session proposal for the 2010 AAA meeting in New Orleans, and would like to call for submissions of abstracts.

The session will focus on graduate student works-in-progress, and will be Pecha Kucha - 20 slides, 20 seconds each.Often the only people who are aware of graduate student work are our advisors and committees, and this will be a chance to show the discipline what we are up to and where we are researching, and get feedback from the audience. This format is an exci… Continue

Popobawa is a much-feared spirit who periodically terrorizes the inhabitants of Zanzibar (and coastal Tanzania), attacking and most notoriously sodomizing men and women as they lie in their beds at night. Victims are told to spread the word of their traumatic experiences or risk being visited and assaulted again. I'll therefore be making a rare public appearance to talk about Popobawa at the Centre of African Studies in the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday, 3rd February (Inshallah). For deta… Continue