On Intimacy–with Peter Geschiere
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How does intimacy matter in imagining and understanding the world today? Peter Geschiere, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, is our guest on this episode, “On Intimacy”. Geschiere is the author of seminal books, including Village Communities and the State: Changing Relations among the Maka of South-Eastern Cameroon (1982); The Modernity of Witchcraft (1997); The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in African & Europe (2009); and Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison (2013). Host: George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. Production: Ethnographic Imagination Basel: Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Ethnologisches Seminar Universität Basel) in collaboration with the New Media Center #intimacy #experience #imagination #anthropology #ethnographicimaginationbasel #basel
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