Elhadj Ould Brahim

Elhadj Ould Brahim is a researcher from Mauritania. I graduated recently from Istanbul University in Turkey. He finished a dissertation on Visual and Oral cultures of the Bidans of Mauritania. He is trained and interested in the interdisciplinary intersections of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Culture and Visual Studies, Social and Critical Theories. He works on a postdoctoral project related to music, culture, identity politics, religiosity, race, gender and representation of the Haratin community in Mauritania.

Elhadj Ould Brahim will speak on June 19, 2023 at the seminar La littérature comme objet, comme méthodologie et comme restitution du savoir anthropologique on the theme "Theydin ou la poésie épique chez les Bidan de Mauritanie; une lecture anthropologique".

The project

Title: Race, Sexuality and Religiosity in Haratin Bondja and Medh Music Traditions

Keywords: Culture, Religion, race, ethnicity, identity, slavery and post-slavery

Selection of publications

(2023). Hidden in Plain Sight; Media and Corruption in Mauritania. In: Media, Culture and Conflict in Africa, Osakue Stevenson Omoera, Editor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, pp.1-16, 2023.

(2022). Loi Mauritanienne sur le « Discours de Haine »; Sauvegarder la Cohésion Sociale ou Entraver les Abolitionnistes. In: Droit et esclavage en Afrique de l’Ouest: Sous la direction de Bakary Camara et Marie Rodet (accepted).

(2022). “Mauritanian Rock Arts, Visual Culture and the Pictorial Return” In: African Art History in Africa: The State of the Discipline on the Continent an edited volume by Danielle Becker (accepted).

Journal Publications

(2022). Humans at Last, Emotions At Least; Enslavement and Freedom Struggles of Four Haratine Women of Mauritania. Expected early 2022 for a special issue in the Journal of migration History (JMH). (accepted)

(2021) Ayn (evil eye) and Sell (vampirism), A Material Reading of Two Mauritanian Bidan Mythical Beliefs (A paper presented for the conference “New Insights on Plagues and Epidemics in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras” expected in February 2021 / Venice).

Presentations & Conferences

Emotive Histories of Female Displacement. Workshop, Gilleleje, Denmark, September 2021.

(2021) “Showing and the Spectacular: Bidan’s Aristocratic Veich and the Role of the Artist, IGGIW,” At the 2021 GRADUATE CONFERENCE Arts & Humanities. Theme: Hyperbole: Sense, Sensation, and Spectacle. Graduate Student Association: The University of Texas at Dallas.  February 2021.