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Daniel Hoffman (PhD 2004, Duke)

Research Interests:
Visual anthropology, violence and militarism, experimental ethnography; West Africa

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Selected Publications:

2011

"Violence Just in Time: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa," Cultural Anthropology 26(1): 34-57

2007

"The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monrovia, and the Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities," Cultural Anthropology 22(3): 400-428

2006

"Disagreement: Dissent Politics and the War in Sierra Leone," Africa Today 52(3): 3-24.

2005

"Violent Events as Narrative Blocs: The Disarmament at Bo, Sierra Leone," Anthropological Quarterly 78(2): 329-354.

2005

The Brookfields Hotel (Freetown, Sierra Leone). Public Culture 17(1):54-74.

2004

The Civilian Target in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Political Power, Military Strategy, and Humanitarian Intervention. African Affairs 103:211-226.

2003

Like Beasts in the Bush: Synonyms of Childhood and Youth in Sierra Leone. Postcolonial Studies 6(3):295-308.

Last Update: July 2011


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