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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
PO Box 1359
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/355 2681; fax 585 099
email: alexande@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
rural social organization and livelihoods
gender issues and gender relations; gender, policy and
development
alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS and family violence among Basarwa
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Institutional affiliation: New York University
Address:
7 Lawrence St., #2
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Telephone: 1-617-497-1143
email: aqa0260@is2.nyu.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
upwardly mobile Batswana
role of education in producing social and cultural difference
family and household and gender issues, especially in terms of
social and cultural reproduction
material culture and consumption
issues of local cultural production in the context of
nation-building, transnationalism, etc, i.e., the role of the
media
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P.O.Box 403655
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/ 355 2928
email: balogik@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
youth, gender and crime
criminology
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/ 355 2675 (w); 306424 (h)
email: bateman@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
the 'coloured' question in Botswana
colonial discourse on 'miscegenation', representation
of 'colour', and practical measures introduced in
reserves, schools, etc., to contain the 'problem'
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Institutional affiliation: Department of History,
UB
Address:
Department of History
P/Bag UB 00703
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/ 305411
email: bennett@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Botswana (and Southern and Central African) history, especially
colonial politics and religious history
colonial government, the British Empire
English church history
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Institutional affiliation: Department of English,
UB
Address:
P/Bag 0022
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/ 355 2093
email: biakolo@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
orality/literacy; narrative
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Institutional affiliation: Rockefeller Foundation
Address:
c/o 301 W. 110th St, #4G
New York, NY 10026
USA
Telephone: 1-212-852-8326
email: cburke@rockfound.org
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
youth everyday lives
witchcraft
AIDS
reproductive health, health and illness
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Institutional affiliation: Lund University
Address:
Dep. 02 Economic History
Lund University
Box 7083
223 50 Lund
Sweden
Telephone: 46-46-2220840
email: ellen.carlsson@ekh.lu.se
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
property rights institutions and how they change over time;
Ownership, user rights and access to water; different user groups
holding different rights; conflicts between customary law and
statutory law
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Institutional affiliation: City University of New
York
Address:
Department of Social Sciences
York College (CUNY)
94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
Jamaica, NY 11451
USA
Telephone: 1-718-262-2626 (w) / 1-212-663-6923 (h)
email: dcooper@york.cuny.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
state and development/ political economy
household linkages/ rural-urban ties
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Institutional affiliation: Sweet Briar College
Address:
P.O.Box 39
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
USA
Telephone: 1-(434)381-6229
email: durham@sbc.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Herero in Mahalapye (cultural identity in liberal democracy)
anthropological studies of youth
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Archaeology,
University of Wales
Address:
Department of Archaeology
University of Wales,
Lampeter, Ceredigion
Wales SA 48 7ED
UK
email: k.fewster@lamp.ac.uk
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
agropastoralism
Bangwato-Basarwa relations
ethnoarchaeology of Serowe area
Sandy and Elinah Grant
Institutional affiliation: Phutadikobo Museum
Address:
Box 367
Mochudi
Botswana
Telephone: 267/377238; 578920 (fax)
email:
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
history
contemporary affairs
Bakgatla
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Institutional affiliation: Brunel University
Address:
Department of Human Sciences
Brunel Univerity
Uxbridge UB8 2PH, UK
Telephone: 1895 847451 (h) email:
Suzette.Heald@brunel.ac.uk
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
AIDS
Christianity and conversion in modern Africa
violence and Gender
pastoralism and agricultural development
Areas: Kenya, Uganda, Botswana
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Institutional affiliation: University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
Address:
Department of Anthropology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368
USA
Telephone: 1-402-472-2480; 472-9642 (fax)
email: rkh@unlserve.unl.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
land tenure and land allocation systems
natural resource use, conservation and development
effects of international and national development policies
human rights of minorities, indigenous peoples and women
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Institutional affiliation: UB
Address:
P.O.Box 1037
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/302765 (until August 2000)
email: susankeitumetse@usa.net
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
land and landscape, land use and culture
gender
culture and the use of space
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Institutional affiliation: UB (student)
Address:
Box 20364
Mochudi
Botswana
Telephone: 267/579088
email:
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
teaching
oral literature
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Institutional affiliation: Dept. of History, Univ. of Maryland
Address:
2132 TLF
College Park, MD 20742
USA
Telephone: 301 4054291
Email: PLandau@umd.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
social history of the highveld, culture, religion, and language
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Institutional affiliation: History Department, Emory
University
Address:
63 Melcher St. #1
Boston, MA 02210
U.S.A.
Telephone: 617-426-8455
Email: jliving@world.std.com
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
the history of disability and aging in Botswana (twentieth
century)
history of health, illness, and medicine --esp. chronic
illness
changing lifecycle, place of the elderly in society
women's history
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Institutional affiliation: Directorate of Research and Development, UB
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Institutional affiliation: Molepolole College of
Education
Address:
P/Bag 008
Molepolole
Botswana
Telephone:
(267) 5920275 (w); 5920899 (h); 71409015(cell)
email: molefed@excite.com
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
dropping out in primary schools in remote area dweller settlements,
educational research, language,
gender, English literature
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Institutional affiliation: Department of English, UB
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Botswana
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Institutional affiliation: The Blaustein Institute for
Desert Research
Address:
Social Studies Unit
Department of Man in the Desert
The Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Sede Boker, Israel 84990
Telephone: dept of behavioral Studies office 972 7 6472
080; in Sede Boker 972 7 659 6866; FAX in Sede Boker 972 7 659
6867; home 972 7 653 2285
email:pnina@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
UB Box 07005
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/355 2758
email: neocosmo@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
forms of rule and democracy
ethnicity and democracy
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/355 2763
email: nyamnjoh@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
chiefs and democratization
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Anthropology,
California State University, Fresno
Address:
Department of Anthropology
California State University, Fresno
5245 North Backer Avenue M/S PB16
Fresno, CA 93740-8001 USA
Telephone: 559/278-3002; 559/278-5004 (fax)
email: jobrien@csufresno.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
cultural politics
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Institutional affiliation: Institute of Social
Studies
Address:
P.O.Box 29776
2502 CT The Hague
The Netherlands
Telephone: 31 70 4260599
email: olaughlin@iss.nl
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
gender, generation and social provisioning in Southern Africa
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Institutional affiliation: Faculty of Social Science,
UB
Address:
P/Bag 0022
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone:
email: otlhogil@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
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Institutional affiliation: Department of History,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB-00703
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: +267-355-2657
Email: nparsons@mopipi... [Click
here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc."
general Botswana history;
biography of "Dancing Bushman"; entertainer, possibly
Kora from Sneeuwberg, who went to Europe and America (d.1940)
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone:
email: pattman@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
social construction of gender, ethnicity
AIDS education
auto/biographical research
gender and ethnic identities in schools in Botswana
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Institutional affiliation: Ministry of Local Government, Botswana
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Demography, UB
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Institutional affiliation: Interdisciplinary Program in
Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
Address:
Department of History
1029 Tisch Hall
The University of Michigan
555 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 USA
Telephone: US (734)668-4105
E-mail: dpuskar@umich.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
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Institutional affiliation: Legae Academy
Address:
P.O.Box 750
Mogoditshane
Botswana
Telephone: 267/319179; 324333 (w); 324313 (fax)
email: legae@info.bw
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Botswana history—Chobe, Kweneng; nationalism, etc
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Institutional affiliation: Yale University
Address: Yale University
P.O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277
USA
Telephone: 203/ 789-8212
email:mieka.ritsema@yale.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
urbanization, migration and social schange
social history of Gaborone
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Tromsø
Address:
Department of Social Anthropology
Faculty of Social Science
University of Tromsø
N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Telephone: 47 77 64 54 45; fax 47 77 64 49 05
email: sidels@sv.uit.no
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
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Institutional affiliation: Department of History,
UB
Address:
P/Bag 0022
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/3552186
email: segobye@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Settlement studies (The influence of Schapera's study on
Tswana settlement systems and social structure on reading
prehistoric socio-spatial organisation and land use)
Mortuary practices (Schapera's studies of Tswana customs and
rituals with reference to the constructions of ideology and power
in society)
Cultural studies (general e.g. the discourse on the influence of
western culture on early southern African societies (cf. Comaroff
& Comaroff 1997)
Anthropology/Archaeology and the present (the role of these
disciplines in contemporary development)
Material culture studies (style and the changes of style in
society past & present)
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/355 2680
email: selolwan@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Democracy, Governance, and Political Participation
Youth and Development
Socio-legal Aspects of marriage and the Family
Agriculture, Food Security and Household Economic Strategies
Ethnic Relations and Nationality
Gender, Inequality and National Development
Poverty and Rural Development
Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
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Institutional affiliation: UB
Address:
P.O. Box 650
Gabane
Botswana
Telephone: 267/347313
email:
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
languages of Botswana, especially the triglossie set-up—how
the minority languages, Setswana and English overlap
gender; how African writers characterize women
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Institutional affiliation: Georgia Southern
University
Address:
P.O.Box 8054
History Department
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460
USA
Telephone: 1-912-764-8936
email: cathyskidmore@hotmail.com /
cskidmore@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
tourism, tsetste and transport in Ngamiland
history of movement of peoples
issues of 'wild' vs 'civilized space'
gender, health and farming
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Institutional affiliation: Trent University
Address:
International Development Studies, Anthropology
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
Canada K9J 7B8
Telephone: 1-705-748-1011 ext. 7219 (w); 1–416–975–2521 (h)
email: jsolway@trentu.ca
Areas of interest, current research:
rural political economy
social differentiation—class, gender, ethnicity
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
UB
Address:
P/Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/355 2675; 716682434
email: stegling@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
HIV/Aids in Botswana
'coloured' identity in Botswana
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Institutional affiliation: Metlhaetsile Women's
Information Centre
Address:
Metlhaetsile Women's Information Centre
P/Bag 42
Mochudi
Botswana
Telephone: 267/377239
email: may_dee@orientation.com
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Tswana law and custom
gender and custom
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Institutional affiliation: University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Address:
140 W. Gorham St., #211
Madison, WI 53703
USA
Telephone: 1-608-294-5981
email: scvolz@students.wisc.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Tswana evangelists of the 19th century
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Institutional affiliation: School of Graduate Studies,
UB
Address:
UB Box 70007
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: 267/355 2391; 71306561
email: weekssg@rocketmail.com
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
sociology of education
social change
organizational analysis
comparative education
community development
educational planning
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Institutional affiliation: University of Manchester
Address:
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
Telephone:
email: Richard.P.Werbner@man.ac.uk
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
translocal subjectivities
cosmopolitan ethnicity
elites
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Institutional affiliation: Hedmark University
College
Address:
2317 Hamar
Norway
Telephone: 00-47-62517629
email: gerd.wikan@luh.hihm.no
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
household survival strategies
poverty studies
re-study of rural villages in Tutume and Letlhakeng
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Institutional affiliation: University of Texas
Address:
Department of Anthropology
ESP 1.130
Austin TX 78712
USA
Telephone: 1-512-474-2207
email: edut@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
Botswana minorities
land tenure
political economy
archaeology
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Botswana
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Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology,
University of Toronto at Mississauga
Address:
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Canada
Telephone: 001-905-828-3943; fax 569-4611
email:
Areas of interest, current research, etc:
rural development
marriage, family and gender
fertility and population dynamics
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Last update (content): 26 July 2008
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