Katherine Ann Wiley

Biographic Data

ID112588
NAMEKatherine Ann Wiley
GIVEN NAMESKatherine Ann
FAMILY NAMEWiley
SIGNATUREWILEY K A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Maria Grosz-Ngaté: Reflections on Research and Decolonizing the Academy

    Katherine Ann WileyARTICLEAfrica Today2022

    In a series of interviews conducted in 2020, anthropologist Maria Grosz-Ngaté looks back on her career, which began with research on work, migration, gender, and social change in Mali's Ségou region. In her reflections, Dr. Grosz-Ngaté discusses her research, her time as associate director of Indiana University's African Studies Program, and her role as an associate editor of Africa Today . A major theme that ran throughout the conversation is he…

  • Being Ḥarāṭīn ? Being Ḫəđ̣riyyîn ? Fluid Meanings of Ethnic Terms in Mauritania’s Assaba Region

    Katherine Ann WileyARTICLEL’Ouest Saharien2020

    Basé sur une étude menée en Mauritanie, cet article vise l’exploration dans le cas des ḥarāṭīn , de la relation complexe entre statut et condition et quelques facteurs qui les affectent. Il examine plusieurs termes liés à la couleur de peau et utilisés pour désigner ce groupe dans des contextes différents. L’étude révèle l’usage relativement répandu dans cette région du terme ḫəđ̣riyyîn (référant à une couleur vert-sombre ou noirâtre) comme alter…

  • Women in Mauritania

    Katherine Ann WileyCHAPTEROxford Research Encyclopedia of…2020

    Women in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have significantly influenced their country’s social, economic, religious, political, and artistic realms. How they have done so has been affected by the country’s nomadic past, severe droughts, history with slavery, and rapid urbanization following independence. Women have participated in trade, influenced politics, made decisions for their families, shaped their marriages, and contributed to religious…

  • Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal, written by Hill, Joseph

    Katherine Ann WileyARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2020

  • The Materiality and Social Agency of theMalaḥfa(Mauritanian Veil)

    Open AccessKatherine Ann WileyARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2019References: 39

    This article examines themalaḥfa, a veil that has long been popular in Mauritania, using the scholarship of materiality to analyze how it and the wearer co-constitute each other. This approach demonstrates how the malaḥfa's particular form and fabric provide women with certain constraints and possibilities; women activate these qualities to exercise agency, be it in redefining their positions in the social hierarchy, exercising control in their r…

  • Joking Market Women: Critiquing and Negotiating Gender and Social Hierarchy in Kankossa, Mauritania

    Open AccessKatherine Ann WileyARTICLEAfrica2014Cited by: 12References: 30

    The streets of Kankossa's busy daily market often ring with laughter as female vegetable vendors joke with each other and passersby. This joking comes at a time when gender roles are shifting in Mauritania since it has become challenging for many men to provide for their families, causing women to take on roles as significant income earners. Likewise, as slavery has diminished over the last century, Ḥarāṭīn, a group consisting of ex-slaves or des…