Nancy Lundgren
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Prof. Nancy Lundgren
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Department of Sociology
University of Cape Coast
Ghana
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Biography:
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- 1997 - present
- Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
- 1996 - 1997
- Associate Professor of Anthropology with tenure, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
- 1995 - 1996
- Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
- 1987 - 1997
- Assistant and Associate Professor of Anthropology with tenure, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
- 1987
Ph.D, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Dissertation Title: "Socialization of Children In Belize: Identity, 'Race' And Power within the World Political Economy"
- 1985 - 1987
- Instructor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- 1980 - 1981, 1983
- Instructor, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
- 1980
- M.A., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
- 1971
- B.A., Sociology, University of Hawaii, USA
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Specialization :
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Areas of Specialization
- The African Diaspora
- Child Socialization
- Economic Anthropology
- Family
- Reproduction of Systems of Inequality: Gender, 'Race', Class
- Africa
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Selected Courses Taught
- Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Feminist Theory
- The African Diaspora
- Economic Anthropology
- Special Topics: Africa
- Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- The Anthropology of Ideology and Religion
- Issues in Development
- Anthropological Theory
- Introduction to Self, Society and Culture
- Love, Sex and Power
- Comparative Social Institutions
- Poverty in the Core and Periphery, Women in Development
- Race, Ethnicity, Minority Groups and Refugees
- Introduction to Sociology
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Publications:
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- Watch and Pray: A Portrait of Fante Village life in Transition: Harcourt College Publishers: Ft. Worth, Texas, 2002
- "Learning to Become (In)Competent: Children in Belize Speak Out", In Jenkins, Richard, ed., Culture, Classification and (In)Competence: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford University Press: London, 1998
- "When I Grow Up I Want a Trans Am: Children in Belize Talk About Themselves and the Impact of the World Capitalist System", Dialectical Anthropology 13:3, 1994
- "Children, 'Race' and Inequality: The Colonial Legacy in Belize", Journal of Black Studies, 1993
- "Women, Work and 'Development' in Belize", Dialectical Anthropology 18: 363-378, 1993
- Review. Moberg, Mark. Citrus, Strategy, and Class: the Politics of Development in Southern Belize, Antioch Review, 1992
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Papers Presented:
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- "Women, Postmodernism and the 'Development' Dilemma", Presented at Senior Women's Caucus, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 1996
- "The Commodification of Ethnicity: The Case of Belize". Presented at Annual Belize Congress, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, 1993
- "Women and Work in Belize". Presented in a special session to honor the late Sylvia Forman, at American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California, 1993
- "The Internationalization of Women's Studies' Courses: 'Race', Class, Ethnicity and Identity in the Postmodern Age". Presented at the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1993
- "Uneven Expansion of Capital and the Contradictions of Women's positions in Belize: Development in the 1990's". Presented at the XV Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Trinidad and Tobago, 1990
- "Racism and Education: Children of the African Diaspora". Presented at the Great Lakes Colleges Black Studies Conference, Earlham College, 1989
- "African-American Family and the World Capitalist System: A Theoretical Contribution to the Nature of the Reproduction of Social Inequality". Presented at the Central States Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988
- "Let the Children Speak: A Study of Socialization in Belize". Presented at the XII Annual Congress of the Caribbean Studies Association, Belize City, Belize, Central America, 1987
- "Blond-Haired Dolls and Blue-Eyed Christs: The Impact of Colonialism on the Development of Children's Ethnic Identity in Belize". Presented at the 85th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 1986
- "Women, Social Reproduction and the Family: Feminist Practice and Theory". Presented at the National Women's Studies Association Meetings, Rutgers University, Rutgers, New Jersey, 1984
- "Children in Crisis: A Study of Child Abuse and Neglect in a Contemporary Urban Poverty Area". Presented at the Northeastern Anthropological Association Meetings, Syracuse, New York, 1983
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Work in Progress:
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- "Disappearing Dodos: Reflections on Women and Academic Freedom in Ghana". Chapter with Mansah Prah to be included in forthcoming volume on Contexts of Gender in Africa: Dilemmas and Challenges of Feminist Research. For The Nordic Africa Institute In Uppsala, Sweden on Sexuality Gender and Society in Africa
- Women, Self, Identity and Change Among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana
- Origins and Contemporary Impact of Cement on Social, Political, Economic and Spiritual Life of Ghana
- "The Corporatization of the Academy", Paper with Mansah Prah
- Globalizing Ghana: An Ethnography
- Ongoing work and research with the District Assembly and villages in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District in the Central Region of Ghana
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