Steven Feierman

Biographic Data

ID173745
NAMESteven Feierman
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEFeierman
SIGNATUREFEIERMAN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS297
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Beyond the Cultural Turn

    Richard Biernacki, Caroline Bynum et al.BOOKBeyond the Cultural Turn2023

  • Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories

    Steven FeiermanCHAPTERBeyond the Cultural Turn2023

  • Evidence, Ethos and Experiment

    Hansjörg Dilger, James Fairhead et al.BOOKEvidence, ethos and experiment2022

    Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local conce…

  • Writing history

    Steven FeiermanARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2019References: 3

    Historical writing in Tanzania has had highly serious goals from the early days of the history department at the University of Dar es Salaam. Historians have aimed at the decolonization of intellectual life, the construction of a national historical identity, and the achievement of a just society. This body of well-contextualized historical writing has circulated widely within the country, but does not reach readers outside east Africa as fully a…

  • Rejoinder to comments by Frederick Kaijage, Oswald Masebo, and Innocent Pikirayi on the keynote speech, ‘writing history

    Steven FeiermanARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2019Cited by: 1References: 2

    Rejoinder to comments by Frederick Kaijage, Oswald Masebo, and Innocent Pikirayi on the keynote speech, ‘Writing History: Flow and Blockage in the Circulation of Knowledge’

  • Africa in History

    Steven FeiermanCHAPTERAfter Colonialism2016

  • Anthropology, knowledge-flows and global health

    Open AccessSteven Feierman, A Kleinman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2009

    Global health programmes are damaged by blockages in the upward flow of information from localities and regional centres about realities of professional practice and about patients' lives and conditions of treatment. Power differentials between local actors and national or international decision-makers present further obstacles to effective action. Anthropological research and action, in its most effective current forms, make important contributi…

  • The Comaroffs and the Practice of Historical Ethnography

    Steven FeiermanARTICLEInterventions2001Cited by: 2References: 3

    Of Revelation and Revolution , Volume 2, explores how Nonconformists propagated the everyday practices of nineteenth-century British bourgeois society. When the southern Tswana found missionary words irrelevant, the missionaries set about remaking Tswana bodies, dress, and houses. The Comaroffs describe resistance to, and refashioning of, European practices. Their work has been central to the creation of a new and rich historiography of cultural …

  • Explanation and Uncertainty in the Medical World of Ghaambo

    Steven FeiermanARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2000

  • Beyond the Cultural Turn

    Hayden V White, Caroline Bynum et al.BOOKBeyond the Cultural Turn1999

  • Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories

    Steven FeiermanCHAPTERBeyond the Cultural Turn1999

  • Healing as social criticism in the time of colonial conquest

    Steven FeiermanARTICLEAfrican Studies1995Cited by: 22References: 20

    Histories of resistance to colonial conquest often describe a moment when African political leaders were defeated, but resistance did not end because ‘religious’ leaders took over the fight. This article suggests that the ‘religious’ leaders might, in many cases, be seen instead as healers. The article demonstrates this with reference to a single place — the frontier area to the north of Rwanda where mediums of the Nyabingi spirit led resistance …

  • Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

    Steven Feierman, John M JanzenBOOKSocial Basis of Health and…1994

  • Chapter 2. Africa in History

    Steven FeiermanCHAPTERAfter Colonialism1994

  • Africa in History

    Steven FeiermanCHAPTERAfter Colonialism1994

  • Disease and Demography in the Americas

    Anne Hardy, John W Verano et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

  • The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

    Philip Setel, Steven Feierman et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1993

  • Peasant Intellectuals

    Frederick Cooper, Faith Cooper et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1993

    Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. Debate has continued, though, on whether coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society, or whether peasants act in a world where political issues are defined by elites. Based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 that includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society, Peasant In…

  • Peasant Intellectuals

    Atieno Odhiambo, Steven FeiermanARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1993

  • Peasant Intellectuals

    Open AccessGregory H Maddox, Gregory Maddox et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1993Cited by: 2

  • Peasant Intellectuals

    Thomas Spear, Steven Feierman et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1992Cited by: 2

  • Peasant Intellectuals

    T O Beidelman, Steven FeiermanREVIEWThe International Journal of…1991

  • Peasant Intellectuals

    Steven Feierman, Steven M FeiermanBOOKPeasant Intellectuals1990Cited by: 146

  • Reply by Steven Feierman

    Open AccessSteven FeiermanARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1986Cited by: 1

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  • Struggles for Control

    Steven FeiermanARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1985Cited by: 97References: 78

    This paper is a general interpretation of the social determinants of health and health care in Africa over the past century. The evolution of health cannot be separated from the broader story of social change. The political and economic forces which shaped the continent's history also established the framework within which patterns of diagnosis and treatment, health and disease, emerged. The implication of this is that healers of all kinds—whethe…