Roy Dilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 115778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Dilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Dilley |
| SIGNATURE | DILLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Paoletti, Giulia: Portrait and Place. Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960
Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Recovering the Absent Presence and the Unseen: Henri Gaden's Photographic Encounters in West Africa, 1894–1907
This article explores invisibility and the unseen, as well as presence and visibility, in relation to a French colonial photographic archive left by Henri Gaden. This archive comprises numerous collections of images and documents; it is heterogeneous and multivocal in nature, a feature that is theorized. Part of this article focuses on a case study of Henri Gaden and the development of his photographic methods. However, a broader argument is made…
Apprenticeship, Anthropological Aspects
Regimes of ignorance: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
Nearly Native, Barely Civilized: Henri Gaden's Journey through Colonial French West Africa (1894-1939)
Nearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers the first full-length biography of Henri Gaden, an exceptional French colonial character who lived through some of the most radical transformations in West African history. It provides an in-depth, intimate and rounded portrayal of the man, his place in history, and the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities not only in his personal and professional life but also at the heart of the colonial …
Daaira, Devotional Acts, and the Transformation of Space in Senegal, West Africa
Anthropos , Seite 185 - 192
Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance
Much anthropological literature regards 'knowledge' as an unproblematic accumulation of what people claim to know about the world, their social relations, cosmology, and practices. The flip-side to knowledge, namely ignorance, however, is rarely considered. To speak of knowledge deprived of its relation to ignorance is like speaking of velocity devoid of a notion of distance. The paper explores what an anthropological conception of ignorance migh…
Specialist Knowledge Practices of Craftsmen and Clerics in Senegal
This article examines the specialized knowledge practices of two sets of culturally recognized 'experts' in Senegal: Islamic clerics and craftsmen. Their respective bodies of knowledge are often regarded as being in opposition, and in some respects antithetical, to one another. The aim of this article is to examine this claim by means of an investigation of how knowledge is conceived by each party. The analysis attempts to expose local epistemolo…
Markets of dispossession: NGOs, economic development, and the state in Cairo by Elyachar, Julia
The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)
Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices Among Haalpulaar'en in Senegal: Between Mosque and Termite Mound
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619900);This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal. The Islamic uprising of the 1770s, which established a class of Islamic clerics in positions of authority in the Senegal river valley, had long-term consequences for the social relations between clerics and caste groups. The book examines how at different…
The Visibility and Invisibility of Production Among Senegalese Craftsmen
This article examines three social contexts of the production and exchange of craft objects in Senegal. In each context, the extent to which the production of craft items is visible or invisible varies, and these variations in turn affect the ways in which value is construed. These examples are understood as different 'regimes of value' (Appadurai), in whose constitution the production of craft objects, whether this is visible or invisible, plays…
The problem of context in social and cultural anthropology
The Problem of Context: Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere
Ways of Knowing, Forms of Power
This article calls for attention to be given to differing cultural forms of learning, especially to how people claim to learn, and what it is they claim to learn. The analysis highlights the value of participation and human experience as a mode of learning, and constitutes a critique of earlier forms of social anthropological methodology. It suggests that the concept of mimesis should be treated as a central feature of fieldwork enculturation. Mo…
Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick
Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture/ Marketing and Modernity
Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture. JAMES G. CARRIER. ed. New York: Berg, 1997. xviii. 276 pp., notes, references, contributors, index.Marketing and Modernity. MARIANNE ELISABETH LIEN. New York. Berg, 1997. viii. 308 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index
Reflections of Rouch by Father, Son and 'Holey' Ghosts: Images in the Hall of Mirrors. Review Essay
I write this review essay from a university office in Scotland at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century. Situating myself as author is important if we are not to lose track of the stories, tales and other reflections created by others situated in different times and at different places: Paris 1960 and 1989; West Chester, USA 1987, and 1989; numerous villages along the Niger river from the 1940s onwards. The mirrors located at all o…
Reflections of Rouch By Father, Son and 'Holey' Ghosts: Images in the Hall of Mirrors
Les questions posees par l'A. tournent autour de l'ethnologue francais J. Rouch travaillant aupres des Songhay du Niger depuis 1940, de Paul Stoller anthropologue etudiant les Songhay depuis 1976 et des Songhay eux-memes. Ces Songhay sont interessants du point de vue de leurs personnes, mais aussi de leurs esprits (les esprits troues). Les deux systemes d'images (de Rouch et de Stoller) s'interpenetrent dans la representation de la realite Songha…
Power, Prayer and Production: The Jola of Casamance, Senegal
Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba Interpretations of Ritual and Religion
Contesting markets: Analyses of Ideology, Discourse and Practice
Contesting Markets
The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life
Contesting markets: Analyses of Ideology, Discourse and Practice
Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance
Much anthropological literature regards 'knowledge' as an unproblematic accumulation of what people claim to know about the world, their social relations, cosmology, and practices. The flip-side to knowledge, namely ignorance, however, is rarely considered. To speak of knowledge deprived of its relation to ignorance is like speaking of velocity devoid of a notion of distance. The paper explores what an anthropological conception of ignorance migh…
The problem of context in social and cultural anthropology
Ways of Knowing, Forms of Power
This article calls for attention to be given to differing cultural forms of learning, especially to how people claim to learn, and what it is they claim to learn. The analysis highlights the value of participation and human experience as a mode of learning, and constitutes a critique of earlier forms of social anthropological methodology. It suggests that the concept of mimesis should be treated as a central feature of fieldwork enculturation. Mo…
The Visibility and Invisibility of Production Among Senegalese Craftsmen
This article examines three social contexts of the production and exchange of craft objects in Senegal. In each context, the extent to which the production of craft items is visible or invisible varies, and these variations in turn affect the ways in which value is construed. These examples are understood as different 'regimes of value' (Appadurai), in whose constitution the production of craft objects, whether this is visible or invisible, plays…
Specialist Knowledge Practices of Craftsmen and Clerics in Senegal
This article examines the specialized knowledge practices of two sets of culturally recognized 'experts' in Senegal: Islamic clerics and craftsmen. Their respective bodies of knowledge are often regarded as being in opposition, and in some respects antithetical, to one another. The aim of this article is to examine this claim by means of an investigation of how knowledge is conceived by each party. The analysis attempts to expose local epistemolo…
Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices Among Haalpulaar'en in Senegal: Between Mosque and Termite Mound
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619900);This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal. The Islamic uprising of the 1770s, which established a class of Islamic clerics in positions of authority in the Senegal river valley, had long-term consequences for the social relations between clerics and caste groups. The book examines how at different…
Myth and Meaning and the Tukolor Loom
Most previous studies of loom technology have either focused on the classification of loom types or on their origins. By contrast, this article investigates the indigenous meanings and significance of the structure of the loom used by Tukolor weavers of Senegal. Resisting changes to its structure, the weavers hold conceptions of the loom as a personal and ritual space, and it is shown how these concepts of the loom and its associated rituals embo…
Tukulor weavers and the organisation of their craft in village and town
Opening ParagraphThe subject of weavers has until recently received surprisingly little detailed attention from writers on Africa, given the importance of cloth in local and regional trade, particularly in West Africa. Yet, even here, cloth trading has received scholarly attention in the works of Hodder (1967, 1980) and of Johnson (1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980). In addition crafts and craftsmen have been the subject matter of occasional papers an…
Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba Interpretations of Ritual and Religion
Nearly Native, Barely Civilized: Henri Gaden's Journey through Colonial French West Africa (1894-1939)
Nearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers the first full-length biography of Henri Gaden, an exceptional French colonial character who lived through some of the most radical transformations in West African history. It provides an in-depth, intimate and rounded portrayal of the man, his place in history, and the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities not only in his personal and professional life but also at the heart of the colonial …
Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life
Recovering the Absent Presence and the Unseen: Henri Gaden's Photographic Encounters in West Africa, 1894–1907
This article explores invisibility and the unseen, as well as presence and visibility, in relation to a French colonial photographic archive left by Henri Gaden. This archive comprises numerous collections of images and documents; it is heterogeneous and multivocal in nature, a feature that is theorized. Part of this article focuses on a case study of Henri Gaden and the development of his photographic methods. However, a broader argument is made…
Daaira, Devotional Acts, and the Transformation of Space in Senegal, West Africa
Anthropos , Seite 185 - 192
Contesting Markets
Tukulor weavers and the organisation of their craft in village and town
Opening ParagraphThe subject of weavers has until recently received surprisingly little detailed attention from writers on Africa, given the importance of cloth in local and regional trade, particularly in West Africa. Yet, even here, cloth trading has received scholarly attention in the works of Hodder (1967, 1980) and of Johnson (1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980). In addition crafts and craftsmen have been the subject matter of occasional papers an…
Spirits, Islam and Ideology: A Study of a Tukulor Weavers' Song (Dillere)
SPIRITS, ISLAM AND IDEOLOGY: A STUDY OF A TUKULOR WEAVERS' SONG (DILLERE) BY Roy M. DILLEY (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) I This is a study of a systematic body of ideas and cosmology sur- rounding the activities of a group of weavers and praise-singers, the Tukulor mabu6e. In particular, I focus here on how some of these ideas are embedded in a weavers' song. The subject of craftsmen in Africa, particularly in the west of the continent and i…
The Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition
Spirits, Islam and Ideology: "A Study of a Tukulor Weavers' Song ("Dillere)
Myth and Meaning and the Tukolor Loom
Most previous studies of loom technology have either focused on the classification of loom types or on their origins. By contrast, this article investigates the indigenous meanings and significance of the structure of the loom used by Tukolor weavers of Senegal. Resisting changes to its structure, the weavers hold conceptions of the loom as a personal and ritual space, and it is shown how these concepts of the loom and its associated rituals embo…
The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life
Contesting Markets
Contesting markets: Analyses of Ideology, Discourse and Practice
Power, Prayer and Production: The Jola of Casamance, Senegal
Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba Interpretations of Ritual and Religion
Reflections of Rouch by Father, Son and 'Holey' Ghosts: Images in the Hall of Mirrors. Review Essay
I write this review essay from a university office in Scotland at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century. Situating myself as author is important if we are not to lose track of the stories, tales and other reflections created by others situated in different times and at different places: Paris 1960 and 1989; West Chester, USA 1987, and 1989; numerous villages along the Niger river from the 1940s onwards. The mirrors located at all o…
Reflections of Rouch By Father, Son and 'Holey' Ghosts: Images in the Hall of Mirrors
Les questions posees par l'A. tournent autour de l'ethnologue francais J. Rouch travaillant aupres des Songhay du Niger depuis 1940, de Paul Stoller anthropologue etudiant les Songhay depuis 1976 et des Songhay eux-memes. Ces Songhay sont interessants du point de vue de leurs personnes, mais aussi de leurs esprits (les esprits troues). Les deux systemes d'images (de Rouch et de Stoller) s'interpenetrent dans la representation de la realite Songha…
The Problem of Context: Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere
Ways of Knowing, Forms of Power
This article calls for attention to be given to differing cultural forms of learning, especially to how people claim to learn, and what it is they claim to learn. The analysis highlights the value of participation and human experience as a mode of learning, and constitutes a critique of earlier forms of social anthropological methodology. It suggests that the concept of mimesis should be treated as a central feature of fieldwork enculturation. Mo…
Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick
Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture/ Marketing and Modernity
Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture. JAMES G. CARRIER. ed. New York: Berg, 1997. xviii. 276 pp., notes, references, contributors, index.Marketing and Modernity. MARIANNE ELISABETH LIEN. New York. Berg, 1997. viii. 308 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index
The problem of context in social and cultural anthropology
Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices Among Haalpulaar'en in Senegal: Between Mosque and Termite Mound
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619900);This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal. The Islamic uprising of the 1770s, which established a class of Islamic clerics in positions of authority in the Senegal river valley, had long-term consequences for the social relations between clerics and caste groups. The book examines how at different…
The Visibility and Invisibility of Production Among Senegalese Craftsmen
This article examines three social contexts of the production and exchange of craft objects in Senegal. In each context, the extent to which the production of craft items is visible or invisible varies, and these variations in turn affect the ways in which value is construed. These examples are understood as different 'regimes of value' (Appadurai), in whose constitution the production of craft objects, whether this is visible or invisible, plays…
The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)
Markets of dispossession: NGOs, economic development, and the state in Cairo by Elyachar, Julia
Specialist Knowledge Practices of Craftsmen and Clerics in Senegal
This article examines the specialized knowledge practices of two sets of culturally recognized 'experts' in Senegal: Islamic clerics and craftsmen. Their respective bodies of knowledge are often regarded as being in opposition, and in some respects antithetical, to one another. The aim of this article is to examine this claim by means of an investigation of how knowledge is conceived by each party. The analysis attempts to expose local epistemolo…
Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance
Much anthropological literature regards 'knowledge' as an unproblematic accumulation of what people claim to know about the world, their social relations, cosmology, and practices. The flip-side to knowledge, namely ignorance, however, is rarely considered. To speak of knowledge deprived of its relation to ignorance is like speaking of velocity devoid of a notion of distance. The paper explores what an anthropological conception of ignorance migh…
Daaira, Devotional Acts, and the Transformation of Space in Senegal, West Africa
Anthropos , Seite 185 - 192
Nearly Native, Barely Civilized: Henri Gaden's Journey through Colonial French West Africa (1894-1939)
Nearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers the first full-length biography of Henri Gaden, an exceptional French colonial character who lived through some of the most radical transformations in West African history. It provides an in-depth, intimate and rounded portrayal of the man, his place in history, and the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities not only in his personal and professional life but also at the heart of the colonial …
Sociology (19 works) · History (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works)