Katja Werthmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 133498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Werthmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Werthmann |
| SIGNATURE | WERTHMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Urban Anthropology: Sub‐Saharan Africa
Anthropologists have undertaken fieldwork in cities of sub‐Saharan Africa since the 1930s. Before the seminal works from the Rhodes‐Livingstone Institute on the Copperbelt cities during the 1950s, female South African anthropologists had already worked in “townships.” French anthropologists also studied rural–urban migration in the 1950s. Until the 1960s, changes in kinship, marriage, and family life, as well as the significance of ethnic categor…
City Life in Africa
Natural resource extraction and indigenous livelihoods: Development challenges in an era of globalisation, edited by Emma Gilberthorpe and Gavin Hilson
Large-scale natural resource extraction has long been associated with the subjugation, expulsion or even decimation of local communities. The damages caused by resource extraction in the past and t
Alber, Erdmute: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel. Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehörigkeit in Westafrika
Anthropos , Seite 658 - 659
Local Religion or Cult-Shopping? A Sacrificial Site in Burkina Faso
Anthropos , Seite 399 - 410
Transformations d'une élite musulmane en Afrique de l'Ouest: Le cas des Dioula de Darsalamy (Burkina Faso)
Darsalamy est l’une des rares localités du Burkina Faso fondées uniquement par et pour des musulmans dans l’intention de maintenir à distance les non-musulmans et les pratiques considérées comme païennes. Les musulmans dioula qui quittèrent Bobo-Dioulasso vers la fin du XIXe siècle pour fonder Darsalamy aspiraient à habiter un lieu non « contaminé » par des modes de vie non musulmans comme les danses des masques. Cette émigration coïncida avec de…
‘Following The Hills’: Gold Mining Camps As Heterotopias
This chapter explores patterns of cooperation and cohabitation in gold mining camps in Burkina Faso, motives for migration to mining camps, and the stigmatisation of the people living in those camps. The stigmatisation is based on a prejudice against sojourners of mining camps who are viewed as a socially and morally deviant population. The chapter argues that mining camps are in fact of deviation. These spaces also catalyse processes of urbanisa…
Translocality: The study of globalising processes from a southern perspective
Working in a boom-town: Female perspectives on gold-mining in Burkina Faso
Chapter 6. Islam on both Sides: Religion and Locality in Western Burkina Faso
Gold Mining and Jula Influence in Precolonial Southern Burkina Faso
The ‘Lobi’ region in what is today southern Burkina Faso is frequently mentioned in historical accounts of gold mining in West Africa. However, little is known about the actual location of the gold mines or about the way gold mining and trade were organized in precolonial times. This article points out that some previous hypotheses about precolonial gold mining, trade and the sociopolitical organization of this region are flawed, partly because ‘…
The President of the gold diggers: Sources of power in a gold mine in Burkina Faso
The article provides an example of how 'formal' and 'informal' modes of power and legitimacy, as well as material and symbolic leadership resources, may intersect and interrelate. It analyses the sources of power that a Big Man in West Africa mobilised in order to appropriate mining rights and to establish leadership in a gold mining camp. As an entrepreneur in an economic field directly regulated by state laws and authorities, he has to operate …
Matan Bariki, 'Women of the Barracks' Muslim Hausa Women in an Urban Neighbourhood in Northern Nigeria
Muslim Hausa-speaking women in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria form a heterogeneous population, differentiated by many social, economic and individual characteristics. New concepts of community and identity beyond the level of kinship, descent and marriage have developed among women in specific urban neighbourhoods, as on a modern housing estate (bariki) for civil servants in the old city of Kano. Although the term matan bariki, ‘women of th…
El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
Translocality: The study of globalising processes from a southern perspective
The President of the gold diggers: Sources of power in a gold mine in Burkina Faso
The article provides an example of how 'formal' and 'informal' modes of power and legitimacy, as well as material and symbolic leadership resources, may intersect and interrelate. It analyses the sources of power that a Big Man in West Africa mobilised in order to appropriate mining rights and to establish leadership in a gold mining camp. As an entrepreneur in an economic field directly regulated by state laws and authorities, he has to operate …
El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
Matan Bariki, 'Women of the Barracks' Muslim Hausa Women in an Urban Neighbourhood in Northern Nigeria
Muslim Hausa-speaking women in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria form a heterogeneous population, differentiated by many social, economic and individual characteristics. New concepts of community and identity beyond the level of kinship, descent and marriage have developed among women in specific urban neighbourhoods, as on a modern housing estate (bariki) for civil servants in the old city of Kano. Although the term matan bariki, ‘women of th…
Gold Mining and Jula Influence in Precolonial Southern Burkina Faso
The ‘Lobi’ region in what is today southern Burkina Faso is frequently mentioned in historical accounts of gold mining in West Africa. However, little is known about the actual location of the gold mines or about the way gold mining and trade were organized in precolonial times. This article points out that some previous hypotheses about precolonial gold mining, trade and the sociopolitical organization of this region are flawed, partly because ‘…
Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
Matan Bariki, 'Women of the Barracks' Muslim Hausa Women in an Urban Neighbourhood in Northern Nigeria
Muslim Hausa-speaking women in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria form a heterogeneous population, differentiated by many social, economic and individual characteristics. New concepts of community and identity beyond the level of kinship, descent and marriage have developed among women in specific urban neighbourhoods, as on a modern housing estate (bariki) for civil servants in the old city of Kano. Although the term matan bariki, ‘women of th…
The President of the gold diggers: Sources of power in a gold mine in Burkina Faso
The article provides an example of how 'formal' and 'informal' modes of power and legitimacy, as well as material and symbolic leadership resources, may intersect and interrelate. It analyses the sources of power that a Big Man in West Africa mobilised in order to appropriate mining rights and to establish leadership in a gold mining camp. As an entrepreneur in an economic field directly regulated by state laws and authorities, he has to operate …
Gold Mining and Jula Influence in Precolonial Southern Burkina Faso
The ‘Lobi’ region in what is today southern Burkina Faso is frequently mentioned in historical accounts of gold mining in West Africa. However, little is known about the actual location of the gold mines or about the way gold mining and trade were organized in precolonial times. This article points out that some previous hypotheses about precolonial gold mining, trade and the sociopolitical organization of this region are flawed, partly because ‘…
Chapter 6. Islam on both Sides: Religion and Locality in Western Burkina Faso
Working in a boom-town: Female perspectives on gold-mining in Burkina Faso
‘Following The Hills’: Gold Mining Camps As Heterotopias
This chapter explores patterns of cooperation and cohabitation in gold mining camps in Burkina Faso, motives for migration to mining camps, and the stigmatisation of the people living in those camps. The stigmatisation is based on a prejudice against sojourners of mining camps who are viewed as a socially and morally deviant population. The chapter argues that mining camps are in fact of deviation. These spaces also catalyse processes of urbanisa…
Translocality: The study of globalising processes from a southern perspective
Transformations d'une élite musulmane en Afrique de l'Ouest: Le cas des Dioula de Darsalamy (Burkina Faso)
Darsalamy est l’une des rares localités du Burkina Faso fondées uniquement par et pour des musulmans dans l’intention de maintenir à distance les non-musulmans et les pratiques considérées comme païennes. Les musulmans dioula qui quittèrent Bobo-Dioulasso vers la fin du XIXe siècle pour fonder Darsalamy aspiraient à habiter un lieu non « contaminé » par des modes de vie non musulmans comme les danses des masques. Cette émigration coïncida avec de…
Alber, Erdmute: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel. Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehörigkeit in Westafrika
Anthropos , Seite 658 - 659
Local Religion or Cult-Shopping? A Sacrificial Site in Burkina Faso
Anthropos , Seite 399 - 410
Natural resource extraction and indigenous livelihoods: Development challenges in an era of globalisation, edited by Emma Gilberthorpe and Gavin Hilson
Large-scale natural resource extraction has long been associated with the subjugation, expulsion or even decimation of local communities. The damages caused by resource extraction in the past and t
City Life in Africa
Urban Anthropology: Sub‐Saharan Africa
Anthropologists have undertaken fieldwork in cities of sub‐Saharan Africa since the 1930s. Before the seminal works from the Rhodes‐Livingstone Institute on the Copperbelt cities during the 1950s, female South African anthropologists had already worked in “townships.” French anthropologists also studied rural–urban migration in the 1950s. Until the 1960s, changes in kinship, marriage, and family life, as well as the significance of ethnic categor…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)