Peter Geschiere

Peter Geschiere is emeritus professor for the Anthropology of Africa at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University. Since 1971 he has undertaken historical-anthropological field-work in various parts of Cameroon and elsewhere in West and Central Africa. He published on ‘witchcraft’ and intimacy; autochthony and exclusion; Freemasonry and homophobia

The project

Witchcraft and the Anthropology of Silence.

Petre Geschiere will confront his work on ‘witchcraft’ in postcolonial Africa with the emerging theory of an "anthropologie du silence", International team EIT "Arts et intelligences du silence", coordinated by Deborah Puccio-Den, LAIOS-IIAC | EHESS.

Institution d'accueil : École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - LAIOS-IIAC.

Bibliographie sélective

• 2009.  Perils of Belonging – Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• 2013.  Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust, Africa in Comparison, Chicago, University of Chicago Press,  xxvii + 291 pg.
• 2016.  Witchcraft, Shamanism and Nostalgia: A review essay. Comparative Studies in Society and History 58(1): 242-265
• (with Rogers Orock). 2020. Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in Postcolonial Africa. Africa 90(5): 831-851.
• (with Rogers Orock). 2021. Decolonization, Freemasonry and the rise of ‘homosexuality’ as a public issue in Cameroon: The return of Dr. Aujoulat. African Affairs, 120/478: 26-56.