Diane Ciekawy
Professor
Ph.D.: Columbia University, 1992
Contact Information:
Phone: (740) 593-1386
Office: Bentley Annex 127
E-mail: ciekawy@ohio.edu
Areas of Specialization:
Political Anthropology, Colonialism Development and Underdevelopment, Religion, Anthropology of Healing, Africa
Courses Taught:
Anth 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anth 351/551: Political Anthropology
Anth 357/557: Anth Of Religion
Anth 381/581: Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
Anth 494A/594A: Seminar in The Anthropology of Witchcraft
INST 610: The Ethnography of Development
Selected Publications:
"Party Politics and the Control of Harmful Magic: Moral Entrepreneurship
during the Independence Era in Coastal Kenya," in J. Kiernan (ed.)
Occult
Matters: Modern Engagements with Witchcraft in Africa. Berlin: Verlag,
2005.
G. Bond and Diane Ciekawy eds. 2001. Dialogues of Witchcraft: Anthropological
and Philosophical Exchanges. Ohio University Press, Athens, OH.
Ciekawy, Diane. 2001. "Utsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of
Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya". In Dialogues of Witchcraft:
Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges. Ohio University Press, Athens,
OH. pp. 158-189.
"Mijikenda Perspectives on Freedom, Culture and Human Rights,"
in C.B.
Mwaria, S. Federici, and J. McLaren (eds.), African Visions: Literary
Images, Political Change and Social Struggle in Contemporary
Africa. Westport: Praeger, 2000.
Ciekawy, Diane. 1999. "Women's 'Work' and the Construction of Witchcraft
Accusation in Coastal Kenya." Women's Studies International Forum.
22(2): 225-235.
Westerfelhaus, Robert & Diane Ciekawy. 1998. "Cleansing the Social
Body: Witchcraft Accusation in an African Society as an Example of Multi-Hierarchical
Victimage." Communication Quarterly. 46(3): 269-283.
Ciekawy, Diane. 1998. "Witchcraft in Statecraft: Five Technologies
of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Coastal Kenya." African Studies
Review. 41(3): 119-141.
Ciekawy, Diane & Peter Geschiere. 1998. "Containing Witchcraft:
Conflicting Scenarios in Postcolonial Africa." African Studies Review. 41(3): 1-14.