Carolyn Martin Shaw
Title | Professor Emerita |
Division | Social Sciences Division |
Department | Anthropology Department |
Affiliations | Humanities Division |
Phone | 831-459-4666 |
Office | Social Sciences 1 |
Campus Mail Stop | Social Sciences 1 Faculty Services |
Research Interests
Teaching Specialties: African ethnography and African women, social theory, and sexuality.Area of Research: Political economy, women and gender, colonial discourse.
Area of Fieldwork: Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Biography, Education and Training
B.S., Ph.D., Michigan State UniversitySelected Publications
- Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex and Class in Kenya. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
- "Louis Leakey as Ethnographer: On the Southern Kikuyu Before 1903." Canadian Journal of African Studies, 23(3):25-42, 1989.
- "Land and Food, Women and Power: A Re-Analysis of the Contribution of Domestic Activities to the Political Economy of the Nineteenth Century Kikuyu," Africa, 80(4):357-69, 1980.