Agrarian Studies Colloquium with Joseph Hellweg

"Dozo Eudaemonia: Relational Personhood, Human Rights, and a Hunter's Epic from Rural Côte d'Ivoire

Joseph Hellweg is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of religion. He has worked among dozo hunters in Côte d’Ivoire ("Hunting the Ethical State," U. Chicago Press, 2011), N’ko healers in Guinea and Mali ("Living the City in Africa," eds. Obrist, Arlt & Macamo, LIT Verlag, 2013), and trans women and gay men in Côte d’Ivoire ("Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa," eds. van Klinken & Chitando, Routledge, 2016). He is past president of the Mande Studies Association and co-editor-in-chief of its journal, Mande Studies (Indiana University Press). He is deputy editor at the Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill) and co-editor of the “Religion in Transforming Africa” book series for James Currey/Boydell & Brewer (UK); and he has published in Africa, the African Studies Review, Africa Today, Afrique contemporaine, Journal of Africana Religions, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, JRAI, and in several edited collections.