Author: Adeline Masquelier

Adeline Masquelier is Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. A specialist of Niger, she is the author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger and Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. Her monograph Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town was awarded the 2010 Herskovits Award and the 2012 Aidoo-Snyder prize. She edited Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body’s Surface and co-edited Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation and Critical Terms for the Study of Africa.

Adeline Masquelier

Adeline Masquelier is Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. A specialist of Niger, she is the author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger and Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. Her monograph Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town was awarded the 2010 Herskovits Award and the 2012 Aidoo-Snyder prize. She edited Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body’s Surface and co-edited Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation and Critical Terms for the Study of Africa.

Heritage out of Control Threads

Heritage out of Control: When Heritage Turns to Rubble

January, 2022 / By Adeline Masquelier

In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When […]

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Afterlives Threads

Haunted: Spirits and the Agency of the No Longer in Niger

May, 2020 / By Adeline Masquelier

In Niger one frequently hears that schools, specifically secondary schools, are haunted. Briefly put, this means that some schools are