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PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Adeline Marie Masquelier is a Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Biography She received her baccalaureate in biology and physics at Centre St. Marc, in Lyon, France , her B.A. in Zoology , and M.A. in Anthropology . She also received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993 studying under the prominent Africanist and Anthropologist Jean Comaroff, and has done her field work among the people of rural Niger in the Hausa town of Dogondoutchi. Her research focuses have included spirit possession, reformist Islam, Bori religious practices, twinship, witchcraft, the pathology of consumption, medical anthropology, and gender. Currently she is the executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa and is researching the Izala Islamic reformist movement in Niger, examining issues including bridewealth, worship, and dress.

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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis (1994) (237)
Road Mythographies: Space, Mobility, and the Historical Imagination in Postcolonial Niger (2002) (167)
TEATIME: BOREDOM AND THE TEMPORALITIES OF YOUNG MEN IN NIGER (2013) (106)
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (2001) (91)
THE SCORPION'S STING: YOUTH, MARRIAGE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL MATURITY IN NIGER (2005) (81)
Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (2009) (79)
Why Katrina's Victims Aren't Refugees: Musings on a “Dirty” Word (2006) (77)
Of Headhunters and Cannibals: Migrancy, Labor, and Consumption in the Mawri Imagination (2000) (45)
Prospective evaluation of venous access difficulty and a near‐infrared vein visualizer at four French haemophilia treatment centres (2015) (35)
Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Facade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger (2001) (35)
Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface (2005) (31)
Encounter With A Road Siren: Machines, Bodies and Commodities In the Imagination of a Mawri Healer (1992) (30)
Lightning, Death and the Avenging Spirits: Bori Values in a Muslim World (1994) (24)
A French controlled multicenter study of intraarticular orgotein versus intraarticular corticosteroids in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis: a one-year followup. (1991) (24)
Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (2019) (21)
The return of magic (2004) (20)
One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, scholar and scribe (2002) (19)
Negotiating Futures: Islam, Youth, and the State in Niger (2007) (18)
Consumption, Prostitution, and Reproduction: The Poetics of Sweetness in Bori (1995) (17)
From Hostage to Host: Confessions of a Spirit Medium in Niger (2002) (15)
Vectors of Witchcraft: Object Transactions and the Materialization of Memory in Niger (1997) (14)
Portrait: Jean Comaroff (2012) (13)
Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self:Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. (1997) (13)
Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation (2016) (12)
A multicenter study of lomefloxacin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole in the treatment of uncomplicated acute pyelonephritis. (1992) (12)
The caliph's sister (1989) (12)
When Spirits Start Veiling: The Case of the Veiled She-Devil in a Muslim Town of Niger (2008) (12)
Genii of the River Niger (1994) (10)
Powers, problems, and paradoxes of twinship in Niger (2001) (10)
Lessons from Rubí (2009) (10)
Securing Futures: Youth, Generation, and Muslim Identities in Niger (2010) (10)
Critical Terms for the Study of Africa (2018) (9)
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything (2020) (8)
Witchcraft, Blood-Sucking Spirits, and the Demonization of Islam in Dogondoutchi, Niger (2008) (7)
Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo (1999) (7)
Islam, Polygyny and Modern Contraceptive Use in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa (2014) (6)
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession and Identity in an Islamic Town in Niger (2002) (5)
Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power:Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. (1998) (5)
The Bloodstain: Spirit Possession, Menstruation, and Transgression in Niger (2011) (4)
Everyday Spirits and Medical Interventions: Ethnographic and Historical Notes on Therapeutic Conventions in Zanzibar Town:Everyday Spirits and Medical Interventions: Ethnographic and Historical Notes on Therapeutic Conventions in Zanzibar Town. (2000) (3)
10. God Made Me A Rapper: Young Men, Islam, And Survival In An Age Of Austerity (2010) (2)
Qur’an Schooling and the Production of Mindful Bodies in West Africa (2015) (2)
The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire (2001) (1)
The Work of Waiting: (2020) (1)
Cooking the Bori way: The logic of healing in the Hausa possession cult (1987) (1)
Introduction: Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation (2016) (1)
Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori (Southern Niger) (2012) (1)
Some Further Thoughts on Knowledge, Practice and Morality (1997) (1)
Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi (2001) (0)
Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS. Shanti Parikh. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. 336 pp. (2018) (0)
Judith Scheele, Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Pp. 286. $99.00 cloth. (2014) (0)
Nous Sommes Branches' Fashion, Connectivity, and Muslimhood in Niger (2013) (0)
Playing with Time: Art and Performance in Central Mali. Mary Jo Arnoldi (1996) (0)
Books Received (1965) (0)
A Disenchanted Landscape? Jinn, Schoolgirls, and the Demonization of the Past in Niger (2020) (0)
Ousseina D. Alidou, Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. 235 + xxi pp.; ill., 9 tables, 2 appendices, index, bibliography. (2011) (0)
BOYD, Jean, The Caliph's Sister, London, Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1989, xiii, 164 pp., $15.00, 0 7146 3319 4 (1995) (0)
Affective Circuits: African migrations to Europe and the pursuit of social regeneration (2021) (0)
[Antibacterial activity of lomefloxacin in the urine during the 4 days following a single 400 mg oral dose]. (1989) (0)
COLES, Catherine and MACK (eds.), Beverly, Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, xi, 297 pp., 0 299 13020 7 (cloth), 0 299 13024 x (paper) (1995) (0)
Veiling, Fashion, and the (Per)formative Role of Dress in Niger (2017) (0)
Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions (2001) (0)
GIBBAL, Jean-Marie, Genii of the River Niger, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994, xiv, 204 pp., 0 226 29051 4 (cloth), 0 226 29052 2 (paper) (1996) (0)
Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Baboule Spirits and the Making of Value (2001) (0)
Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania by Stacey A. Langwick. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. ix +300 pp., glossary, notes, references, index. (2013) (0)
CLEO CANTONE, Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal . Leiden: Brill (hb €137 – 978 90 04 20337 2). 2012, 436 pp. (2015) (0)
THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF VALUE (2013) (0)
Alison Heller, Fistula Politics: birthing injuries and the quest for continence in Niger. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press (hb US$125 – 978 1 9788 0037 3; pb US$34.95 – 978 1 9788 0036 6). 2018, 250 pp (2022) (0)
The Law of the Lifegivers (Book Reviews). (2001) (0)
3 Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori (Southern Niger) (2020) (0)
A Matter of Time: Spirit Possession and the Temporalities of School in Niger (2020) (0)
Margot Badran, ed. Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law. Washington DC and Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2011. x + 324 pages. Cloth US$60.00 ISBN 978-0-8047-7481-9. (2013) (0)
The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption (2001) (0)
Early Marriage and the Debates over Gender-Based Rights in Niger (2020) (0)
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town by Benjamin F. Soares (2011) (0)
Locating Islam: Aspirations, Conflicts, and Ambivalence in the Lives of Young Muslims in Niger (2016) (0)
Of " Dress , Undress , And Difference : Critical Perspectives On The Body ' s Surface " (2015) (0)
Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain (2001) (0)
Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xvi + 183 pp. (2013) (0)
Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigerien (review) (2002) (0)
Socializing the Spirits (2001) (0)
YOUNG MEN OF LEISURE? (2019) (0)
Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal by Cleo Cantone (review) (2015) (0)
Fistula Politics: birthing injuries and the quest for continence in Niger by Alison Heller (review) (2022) (0)
Response to Marzia Milazzo's review of Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (2021) (0)
Taussig, Michael. Beauty and the beast. x, 172 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012. £14.50 (paper) (2015) (0)
The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice (2001) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Genevive Calame-Griaule.CONTES TENDRES, CONTES CRUELS DU SAHEL NIGRIEN. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. (2002) (0)
Shock III (2011) (0)
Taking Hold of the Kasuwa: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market (2001) (0)

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