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Catherine L. Besteman

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#1442

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#530

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Catherine L. Besteman's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, Catherine Lowe Besteman is an Italian American abolitionist educator at Colby College, where she holds the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Chair in Anthropology. Her research and practice engage the public humanities to explore abolitionist possibilities in Maine. She has taught at that institution since 1994.

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Catherine L. Besteman's Published Works

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Unraveling Somalia : race, violence, and the legacy of slavery (1999) (115)
The Struggle For Land In Southern Somalia: The War Behind The War (1996) (90)
Violent politics and the politics of violence : the dissolution of the Somali nation-state (1996) (84)
Representing Violence and 'Othering' Somalia (1996) (79)
Transforming Cape Town (2008) (70)
Sacrifice as terror; the Rwandan genocide of 1994:Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994. (2001) (66)
Militarized Global Apartheid (2019) (55)
Primordialist Blinders: A Reply to I. M. Lewis (1998) (43)
Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (1999) (39)
Life by Algorithms (2019) (32)
Experimenting in Somalia: The new security empire (2017) (32)
Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (2016) (31)
Individualisation and the assault on customary tenure in Africa: title registration programmes and the case of Somalia (1994) (28)
Translating Race across Time and Space: The Creation of Somali Bantu Ethnicity (2012) (25)
The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It (2009) (24)
A Response to Helander's Critique of “Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence” (1999) (22)
Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa (1999) (17)
Cultures of Militarism (2019) (17)
Polygyny, Women's Land Tenure, and the "Mother-Son Partnership" in Southern Somalia (1995) (12)
Somali Bantus in a state of refuge (2013) (12)
Public History and Private Knowledge: On Disputed History in Southern Somalia (1993) (10)
in and Out of the academy: Policy and the Case for a Strategic anthropology (2010) (10)
Land tenure, social power, and the legacy of slavery in southern Somalia. (1991) (9)
Economic Strategies of Farming Households in Penabranca, Portugal (1989) (6)
Land tenure in the Middle Jubba: customary tenure and the effect of land registration. (1990) (5)
Refuge fragments, fragmentary refuge (2014) (5)
Living With Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda by Sverker Finnström (2008) (5)
A Response to Matti Bunzl: Public Anthropology, Pragmatism, and Pundits (2008) (5)
'Beware of those bearing gifts': An anthropologist's view of AFRICOM (2008) (4)
Militarized Humanitarianism (2019) (2)
The Early Morning Phone Call: Somali Refugees’ Remittances by Anna Lindley (2011) (1)
"“Community Environment.” The Somali Bantu Experience: From East Africa to Maine" (2009) (1)
ON ETHNOGRAPHIC UNKNOWABILITY (2020) (1)
The Humanitarian Condition (2016) (1)
Political Economy and Robert Kaplan in Africa: A Comment on "The Coming Anarchy" (2000) (1)
Chapter 3. Slavery and the Jubba Valley Frontier (1999) (1)
Comment (2019) (1)
Dhasheeg agriculture in the Jubba Valley, Somalia. (1996) (1)
Refuge and Security Panics (2019) (1)
Comment: A new manifesto? (2019) (1)
Shoveling sand or changing the nation?: transformation activism in Cape Town (2008) (1)
The Somali Bantu Experience: Using Multimedia Ethnography for Community Building, Public Education and Advocacy (2009) (1)
Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be (2016) (0)
Diaspora and African Sustainabilities: Stories from Somalis in Maine, USA (2016) (0)
Somalia: Economy without State (2005) (0)
Refugee Economic Impact Study, Lewiston , Maine (2010) (0)
Chapter 6. Between Domination and Collusion: The Ambiguity of Gosha Life (1999) (0)
Promised Land (review) (2011) (0)
These Are Our Kids (2016) (0)
Becoming Somali Bantus (2016) (0)
We Have Responded Valiantly (2016) (0)
Agrarian Production Practices and Settlement Patterns (1997) (0)
Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice. RENÉ LEMARCHAND (1996) (0)
Chapter 9. Conclusion (1999) (0)
Chapter 2. Fieldwork, Surprises, and Historical Anthropology (1999) (0)
Somalia’s Southern War (2019) (0)
Chapter 4. The Settlement of the Upper Gosha, 1895-1988 (1999) (0)
Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands (2016) (0)
While We Were Sleeping (2005) (0)
5. Why I Disagree With Robert Kaplan (2019) (0)
Chapter 1. Somalia from the Margins: An Alternative Approach (1999) (0)
Chapter 16. On Ethnographic Love (2015) (0)
Sharing ethnographic love (2017) (0)
Sacrifice as Terror (Book Review). (2001) (0)
1 Introduction (2006) (0)
Strangers in Our Midst (2016) (0)
Chapter 5. Hard Hair: Somali Constructions of Gosha Inferiority (1999) (0)
Chapter 8. The Political Economy of Subordination (1999) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Alterity, Identity, Image: Selves and Others in Society and Scholarship. Raymond Corbey and Joep Leerssen (1993) (0)
Chapter 7. Negotiating Hegemony and Producing Culture (1999) (0)

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