Michelle C Johnson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3614019 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michelle C Johnson |
| NOMBRES | Michelle C |
| APELLIDO | Johnson |
| FIRMA | JOHNSON M C |
| AFILIACIONES | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0465-5191 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
‘His Name Is Garbage’
In this article, I explore ‘loser names’, which Mandinga mothers in Guinea-Bissau give their babies to protect them from iran , or malevolent spirits. Said to be jealous of the intimacy of human families and who crave their own spouses and children, iran reportedly attack babies, causing serial miscarriages and infant deaths. In interpreting loser names, I move beyond the materialist/idealist binary common in scholarly interpretations of similar …
Grotto Water and Potato Chips
Nothing is sweet in my mouth
Here I explore food and eating and their connection to identity and religion among immigrants and refugees from Guinea-Bissau living in and around Lisbon, Portugal. I first demonstrate the importance of food to fieldwork in transnational settings, as well as to the understanding of the experience of migration. I show how different foods and eating styles mark boundaries and distinctions between homeland and host country, Africans and Europeans, a…
Culture's Calling
In this article, I explore how immigrants from the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau living in Portugal use mobile phones in their daily lives in Lisbon. Whereas one might assume that mobile phones and other new information technologies facilitate transnational communication between Africa and Portugal, the ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted in Lisbon from 1999 to 2003 revealed a different scenario. Instead, mobile phones as imagined and …
Questioning French Secularism
Empathy and Rage
Death and the Left Hand
This article explores Islam, gender, and "proper" Mandinga funerary "custom" in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, specifically the contradictions and debates between men and women about Mandinga custom and Islam as they play out in the ritual of shaking with the left hand, wailing at funerals, and visiting healers to investigate the nature of particular deaths. It suggests that far from constituting a "crisis of modernity," these contradictions and deb…
The Proof is on My Palm
For Mandinga in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, life-course rituals are currently provoking transnational debates on ethnic and religious identity. In Guinea-Bissau, these two identities are thought to be one and the same-to be Mandinga is to 'naturally' be Muslim. For Mandinga immigrants in Portugal, however, the experience of transnationalism and the allure of 'global Islam' have thrust this long-held notion into debate. In this article, I explore …
Sacred Rice
Davidson's captivating ethnography explores the centrality of rice to Jola livelihood and identity in an era of rapid social, economic, and environmental change. Jola are a minority ethnic group in
The Proof is on My Palm
For Mandinga in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, life-course rituals are currently provoking transnational debates on ethnic and religious identity. In Guinea-Bissau, these two identities are thought to be one and the same-to be Mandinga is to 'naturally' be Muslim. For Mandinga immigrants in Portugal, however, the experience of transnationalism and the allure of 'global Islam' have thrust this long-held notion into debate. In this article, I explore …
Nothing is sweet in my mouth
Here I explore food and eating and their connection to identity and religion among immigrants and refugees from Guinea-Bissau living in and around Lisbon, Portugal. I first demonstrate the importance of food to fieldwork in transnational settings, as well as to the understanding of the experience of migration. I show how different foods and eating styles mark boundaries and distinctions between homeland and host country, Africans and Europeans, a…
Culture's Calling
In this article, I explore how immigrants from the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau living in Portugal use mobile phones in their daily lives in Lisbon. Whereas one might assume that mobile phones and other new information technologies facilitate transnational communication between Africa and Portugal, the ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted in Lisbon from 1999 to 2003 revealed a different scenario. Instead, mobile phones as imagined and …
Death and the Left Hand
This article explores Islam, gender, and "proper" Mandinga funerary "custom" in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, specifically the contradictions and debates between men and women about Mandinga custom and Islam as they play out in the ritual of shaking with the left hand, wailing at funerals, and visiting healers to investigate the nature of particular deaths. It suggests that far from constituting a "crisis of modernity," these contradictions and deb…
The Proof is on My Palm
For Mandinga in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, life-course rituals are currently provoking transnational debates on ethnic and religious identity. In Guinea-Bissau, these two identities are thought to be one and the same-to be Mandinga is to 'naturally' be Muslim. For Mandinga immigrants in Portugal, however, the experience of transnationalism and the allure of 'global Islam' have thrust this long-held notion into debate. In this article, I explore …
Death and the Left Hand
This article explores Islam, gender, and "proper" Mandinga funerary "custom" in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, specifically the contradictions and debates between men and women about Mandinga custom and Islam as they play out in the ritual of shaking with the left hand, wailing at funerals, and visiting healers to investigate the nature of particular deaths. It suggests that far from constituting a "crisis of modernity," these contradictions and deb…
Empathy and Rage
Culture's Calling
In this article, I explore how immigrants from the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau living in Portugal use mobile phones in their daily lives in Lisbon. Whereas one might assume that mobile phones and other new information technologies facilitate transnational communication between Africa and Portugal, the ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted in Lisbon from 1999 to 2003 revealed a different scenario. Instead, mobile phones as imagined and …
Questioning French Secularism
Nothing is sweet in my mouth
Here I explore food and eating and their connection to identity and religion among immigrants and refugees from Guinea-Bissau living in and around Lisbon, Portugal. I first demonstrate the importance of food to fieldwork in transnational settings, as well as to the understanding of the experience of migration. I show how different foods and eating styles mark boundaries and distinctions between homeland and host country, Africans and Europeans, a…
Grotto Water and Potato Chips
Sacred Rice
Davidson's captivating ethnography explores the centrality of rice to Jola livelihood and identity in an era of rapid social, economic, and environmental change. Jola are a minority ethnic group in
‘His Name Is Garbage’
In this article, I explore ‘loser names’, which Mandinga mothers in Guinea-Bissau give their babies to protect them from iran , or malevolent spirits. Said to be jealous of the intimacy of human families and who crave their own spouses and children, iran reportedly attack babies, causing serial miscarriages and infant deaths. In interpreting loser names, I move beyond the materialist/idealist binary common in scholarly interpretations of similar …
Sociology (8 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Ethnography (4 obras) · Ethnology (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras)