Ways of Knowing Pre-colonial African Experiences: Two Studies from Kenya
Update: 2007-02-08
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BIO: Dr. Kusimba has served as Curator of African Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum since 1994. He is also Adjunct faculty in the Departments of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Chap is involved in a number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary field and collection-based research as well as interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research projects. He has initiated international collaborative programs with colleagues at the National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Services, Deccan College, India, and Pardubice University, Czech Republic.His research agenda focuses on the role of economy, technology, and politics in the development of urban societies. In East Africa, He studies the origins of urbanism and its influence in East African history. In India, he is studying the role of South Asian merchants on African urbanism. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1990-91), National Geographic Society (1996-98), Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1990), Eli Lilly Foundation (1998), Chicago 2020 (2000), and the Norwottock Charitable Trust (2005).
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