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Peter Geschiere

Peter Geschiere is an anthropologist from the Netherlands, born in 1941. He was educated at the Free University (MA Anthropology, 1969; PhD anthropology, 1978). He performed field work in Tunisia in 1969, Cameroon in 1971, 1973, and 1980; and Cameroon and southern Senegal in 1987.

Published academic studies include Village Communities and the State: Changing Relations in Maka Villages of Southeast Cameroon (1982), Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa (1985), The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (1997)  ; and most recently The Perils of Belonging : Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)

The latest book (2009) focusses on the strength and influence of group identifications in colonial and post-colonial contexts, and is largely based on the field work performed in Cameroon. Geschiere seeks to draw broader conclusions about social belonging in modern times.

[Mostly transferred via Google Translate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in Javanese; edited for sense in English]

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