Christine Saidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 172183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Saidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Saidi |
| SIGNATURE | SAIDI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kutztown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-2239-1426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grandmothers, Mothers, and Persons of Authority
My Husband Is Also My Daughter
A History of African Women from 800 CE to 1900
A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE
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
A History of African Women from 800 CE to 1900
A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE
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…
Sacred, but Never Profane
This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that all African societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope of historical research. In East-Central Africa, women played key roles in technological and economic developments…
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period. This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that allAfrican societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope o…
Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period. This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that allAfrican societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope o…
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…
Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period. This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that allAfrican societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope o…
Sacred, but Never Profane
This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that all African societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope of historical research. In East-Central Africa, women played key roles in technological and economic developments…
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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
A History of African Women from 800 CE to 1900
A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE
A History of African Women from 800 CE to 1900
A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE
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…
My Husband Is Also My Daughter
Grandmothers, Mothers, and Persons of Authority
History (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Bantu languages (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 works)