Catherine Cymone Fourshey
Biographic Data
| ID | 160163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Cymone Fourshey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine Cymone |
| FAMILY NAME | Fourshey |
| SIGNATURE | FOURSHEY C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3229-9943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development
Philology in African Historical Inquiry
Language and history are inextricably entangled with each other, but can one be used to illuminate the other? This article focuses on the generations of philologists and Bantu speakers who have collectively, in different ways, obscured and illuminated our understandings of such categories as gender and childhood. In particular, it challenges the antiquity of girlhood as a historical designation in eastern and central African Bantu speech communit…
Resilience in African History
Between 1960, when seventeen African countries gained independence from French colonial rule, and 2020, when the global pandemic of Covid-19 emerged, just over five hundred scholarly books or articles were published addressing, to varying degrees, resilience on the African continent. Working toward this special issue has made it clear that there continues to be a great deal of slippage in how scholars describe resilience. This concept is often co…
A Turn to the African Girl
Over the last century, girls in Africa, long ignored as sources of knowledge, have, nevertheless, engaged vocally and publicly in activism and artistic endeavors to express their visions and aspirations for a future society inclusive of their needs. Only recently have scholars begun to examine the complicated nature of girlhood in relation to capacity, competence, and knowledge layered with vulnerability and inexperience. In the last decade, the …
Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History
Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History
Leza, Sungu, and Samba
In 2016, with the support of a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant to research and write a precolonial African history of family, generations, and gender, we began building the Bantu Ancestral Roots Database (BARD). BARD is a digital repository of word-roots related to gender and life stage practices from over sixty Bantu languages. We developed it to assist us in our analysis of this large corpus o…
Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History
The Bantu Matrilineal Belt
This chapter presents an alternative to silence and the single story with an introduction to a deeper historical vision of women and gender relations, over 205,000 years, in a region of sub-Saharan Africa that stretches from Angola in the West, through Central Africa to Tanzania, and to Mozambique in the East. It contributes to the aims of Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora. The chapter introduces the concept of the Bantu Matr…
Lifting the Loincloth
After two decades of research in East and East Central Africa on early precolonial history, the authors of this article began a collaborative project focused on gender and identity with an aim of addressing and rectifying categories that commonly appear in anthropological and historical studies. Our position is that present day gender and identity categories applied to the deep past are problematic because they too often miss the nuances of gende…
Set Alight to Her Husband’s House”
Karibu Stranger, Come Heal Thy Host
This study focuses on hospitality in Tanzania, as a topic of historical importance. Although there are many references to hospitality within both primary and secondary sources and anecdotal accounts, hospitality is effectively unexplored in the historical scholarship for any part of sub-Saharan Africa. Looking at southwestern Tanzania between 1600 and 1900 as a case study, this work aims to make hospitality, for the first time, primary focus of h…
Madagascar
(2011). Madagascar: A Short History. African Historical Review: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 127-129
Brian Du Toit The Boers in East Africa
No abstract
A Turn to the African Girl
Over the last century, girls in Africa, long ignored as sources of knowledge, have, nevertheless, engaged vocally and publicly in activism and artistic endeavors to express their visions and aspirations for a future society inclusive of their needs. Only recently have scholars begun to examine the complicated nature of girlhood in relation to capacity, competence, and knowledge layered with vulnerability and inexperience. In the last decade, the …
Lifting the Loincloth
After two decades of research in East and East Central Africa on early precolonial history, the authors of this article began a collaborative project focused on gender and identity with an aim of addressing and rectifying categories that commonly appear in anthropological and historical studies. Our position is that present day gender and identity categories applied to the deep past are problematic because they too often miss the nuances of gende…
Karibu Stranger, Come Heal Thy Host
This study focuses on hospitality in Tanzania, as a topic of historical importance. Although there are many references to hospitality within both primary and secondary sources and anecdotal accounts, hospitality is effectively unexplored in the historical scholarship for any part of sub-Saharan Africa. Looking at southwestern Tanzania between 1600 and 1900 as a case study, this work aims to make hospitality, for the first time, primary focus of h…
Brian Du Toit The Boers in East Africa
No abstract
Madagascar
(2011). Madagascar: A Short History. African Historical Review: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 127-129
Karibu Stranger, Come Heal Thy Host
This study focuses on hospitality in Tanzania, as a topic of historical importance. Although there are many references to hospitality within both primary and secondary sources and anecdotal accounts, hospitality is effectively unexplored in the historical scholarship for any part of sub-Saharan Africa. Looking at southwestern Tanzania between 1600 and 1900 as a case study, this work aims to make hospitality, for the first time, primary focus of h…
Set Alight to Her Husband’s House”
Lifting the Loincloth
After two decades of research in East and East Central Africa on early precolonial history, the authors of this article began a collaborative project focused on gender and identity with an aim of addressing and rectifying categories that commonly appear in anthropological and historical studies. Our position is that present day gender and identity categories applied to the deep past are problematic because they too often miss the nuances of gende…
The Bantu Matrilineal Belt
This chapter presents an alternative to silence and the single story with an introduction to a deeper historical vision of women and gender relations, over 205,000 years, in a region of sub-Saharan Africa that stretches from Angola in the West, through Central Africa to Tanzania, and to Mozambique in the East. It contributes to the aims of Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora. The chapter introduces the concept of the Bantu Matr…
Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History
Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History
Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History
Leza, Sungu, and Samba
In 2016, with the support of a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant to research and write a precolonial African history of family, generations, and gender, we began building the Bantu Ancestral Roots Database (BARD). BARD is a digital repository of word-roots related to gender and life stage practices from over sixty Bantu languages. We developed it to assist us in our analysis of this large corpus o…
A Turn to the African Girl
Over the last century, girls in Africa, long ignored as sources of knowledge, have, nevertheless, engaged vocally and publicly in activism and artistic endeavors to express their visions and aspirations for a future society inclusive of their needs. Only recently have scholars begun to examine the complicated nature of girlhood in relation to capacity, competence, and knowledge layered with vulnerability and inexperience. In the last decade, the …
Resilience in African History
Between 1960, when seventeen African countries gained independence from French colonial rule, and 2020, when the global pandemic of Covid-19 emerged, just over five hundred scholarly books or articles were published addressing, to varying degrees, resilience on the African continent. Working toward this special issue has made it clear that there continues to be a great deal of slippage in how scholars describe resilience. This concept is often co…
African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development
Philology in African Historical Inquiry
Language and history are inextricably entangled with each other, but can one be used to illuminate the other? This article focuses on the generations of philologists and Bantu speakers who have collectively, in different ways, obscured and illuminated our understandings of such categories as gender and childhood. In particular, it challenges the antiquity of girlhood as a historical designation in eastern and central African Bantu speech communit…
African history and culture studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Bantu languages (6 works) · History (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works)