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Carolyn Martin Shaw

Title	Professor Emerita
Division	Social Sciences Division
Department	Anthropology Department
Affiliations	Humanities Division
Phone	831-459-4666
Email
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 University

Selected 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.