B Buggenhagen
Biographic Data
| ID | 31478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Buggenhagen |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Buggenhagen |
| SIGNATURE | BUGGENHAGEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2384-3938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Series Introduction
Series Introduction Beth Buggenhagen, series editor This issue marks the debut of a new feature of Africa Today through which we highlight the work of our long-serving past editors who have recently retired from the journal and from their academic positions at Indiana University. Here, we reflect on their contributions to shaping the journal since it came to Indiana University Press in 1999. Editing a journal is often a labor of love, a service t…
Transformed from the Inside Out
Dak’Art, Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, is built from within, not without, argues Joanna Grabski in Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar. The Dak’Art Biennale reflects the artists, the urban context in which they create, and art-world globalization. From this artistic activity, the art world is structured, even if an infrastructure of museums, auction houses, and gallery spaces is not readily apparent …
Introduction to Special Issue
African artistic practices, new media, new platforms, and their study and use by scholars present opportunities to explore emergent intersections, volatili- ties, and futures. Questions arising from the intersections between past and present, old and new media, the volatilities of form, and imagined futures in contemporary African cultural production brought scholars from Indiana, Humboldt, and Bayreuth universities together for an interdisciplin…
If You Were in My Sneakers
If one of the defining images of the present is the unregulated migration of individuals and families across the Mediterranean in small boats, what does migration look like from the perspective of those based of the African continent? In this essay, I argue that Dakar‐based photographer Omar Victor Diop focuses his lens on the dignity of migrants, rather than the crisis of migration. In Project Diaspora: Self‐Portraits 2014, he reframes contempor…
Afro-Swedish Artistic Practices and Discourses in and out of Sweden
Sweden has long been known for its tolerance and openness. During the twentieth century, Swedish missionaries paved the way for Africans to migrate to Sweden, Swedish political figures campaigned for decolonization, and by the 1970s, Sweden was attracting people fleeing war-torn areas such as the Horn of Africa (Kubai 2016; Kushkush 2016). Yet recently, Sweden has had to contend with a sharp increase in the numbers of immigrants, refugees, and as…
The African Photographic Archive
This work is a book review considering the title The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies edited by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury
Exhibition Reviews
What does it mean to produce, circulate, and display art in a global context from the viewpoint of Africa's westernmost city, Dakar? One of the ten major biennales in the world, the Dak'Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art, is an international exhibition featuring contemporary art produced by artists based on the continent and in the Diaspora. Curators Elise Atangana, Abdelkader Damani, and Ugochukwu Smooth Nzewi organized the eleventh editio…
Art and Activism in Africa
Area Studies and the Challenges of Creating a Space for Public Debate
Scholarship in the African humanities—art history, cultural anthropology, history, literature, religion, and so forth—has transcended disciplinary ways of knowing, transformed scholarly conversations from a focus on difference between Africa and the West to an emphasis on connections and convergence, and emphasized the universality of the particular. Today, the African humanities must confront another limitation in scholarly discourse about Afric…
Muslims and New Media in West Africa
Africa Interweave
This work is a book review considering the title Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas edited by Susan Cooksey
A Snapshot of Happiness
Young women who live in the improvised urban spaces on the outskirts of Senegal's capital city, Dakar, extemporize their respectability in a time of fiscal uncertainty through personal photography. The neighbourhood of Khar Yalla is an improvised, interconnected and multilayered space settled by families removed from the city centre during clean-up campaigns from the 1960s to the 1970s, by families escaping conflict in Casamance and Guinea-Bissau…
Are births just "women's business"? Gift exchange, value, and global volatility in Muslim Senegal
Through global circuits of wage labor and capital, the Murid way has become an economic force in the Senegalese postcolony amid conditions of protracted global volatility. In this article, I analyze women's actions within these global circuits. Women create value by giving gifts during the celebration of births and marriages, gifts that are the product of and the motivating force behind Murid global trade. Female ritual activities, on which male …
Islam and the Media of Devotion in and out of Senegal
Few devotees of the Muridiyya, a Sufi congregation that emerged in colonial Senegal at the turn of the 20th century, have the opportunity to glimpse or touch their spiritual masters. Exalted Murid figures rarely leave their compounds in rural Tuba, and access to them is restricted to high-ranking initiates such as Muslim scholars, government officials, and business leaders. Ordinary disciples are more likely to view religious figures in the varie…
Islam and Caste Knowledge Practices among Haalpulaar'en in Senegal
Picking up the Thread
Picking up the Thread
Taking into account the significant body of critique built up around the Dogon corpus, I return to Geneviève Calame-Griaule s ethnography of speech among the Dogon, Ethnologie et langage: la parole chez les Dogon (Words and the Dogon World), to appreciate its role in moving language to the center of ethnographic research. Calame-Griaule s contributions included attention to the full range of communicative practices, giving theoretical weight to h…
Domestic Object(ion)s
Prophets and Profits
This paper analyzes the disjuncture between the projected prosperity of male migrant traders of the Murid Sufi order and the actual ability of these traders to maintain the social relations that engender wealth. I focus on an exchange of bridewealth that ultimately resulted in a collapsed marriage to show how households are made and unmade across time and space by diasporic practices. I aim to show how two decades of neoliberal reform in Senegal …
Prophets and Profits
Beth Anne Buggenhagen, Prophets and Profits: Gendered and Generational Visions of Wealth and Value in Senegalese Murid Households, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 31, Fasc. 4 (Nov., 2001), pp. 373-401
Are births just "women's business"? Gift exchange, value, and global volatility in Muslim Senegal
Through global circuits of wage labor and capital, the Murid way has become an economic force in the Senegalese postcolony amid conditions of protracted global volatility. In this article, I analyze women's actions within these global circuits. Women create value by giving gifts during the celebration of births and marriages, gifts that are the product of and the motivating force behind Murid global trade. Female ritual activities, on which male …
Prophets and Profits
This paper analyzes the disjuncture between the projected prosperity of male migrant traders of the Murid Sufi order and the actual ability of these traders to maintain the social relations that engender wealth. I focus on an exchange of bridewealth that ultimately resulted in a collapsed marriage to show how households are made and unmade across time and space by diasporic practices. I aim to show how two decades of neoliberal reform in Senegal …
Islam and the Media of Devotion in and out of Senegal
Few devotees of the Muridiyya, a Sufi congregation that emerged in colonial Senegal at the turn of the 20th century, have the opportunity to glimpse or touch their spiritual masters. Exalted Murid figures rarely leave their compounds in rural Tuba, and access to them is restricted to high-ranking initiates such as Muslim scholars, government officials, and business leaders. Ordinary disciples are more likely to view religious figures in the varie…
A Snapshot of Happiness
Young women who live in the improvised urban spaces on the outskirts of Senegal's capital city, Dakar, extemporize their respectability in a time of fiscal uncertainty through personal photography. The neighbourhood of Khar Yalla is an improvised, interconnected and multilayered space settled by families removed from the city centre during clean-up campaigns from the 1960s to the 1970s, by families escaping conflict in Casamance and Guinea-Bissau…
If You Were in My Sneakers
If one of the defining images of the present is the unregulated migration of individuals and families across the Mediterranean in small boats, what does migration look like from the perspective of those based of the African continent? In this essay, I argue that Dakar‐based photographer Omar Victor Diop focuses his lens on the dignity of migrants, rather than the crisis of migration. In Project Diaspora: Self‐Portraits 2014, he reframes contempor…
Prophets and Profits
Beth Anne Buggenhagen, Prophets and Profits: Gendered and Generational Visions of Wealth and Value in Senegalese Murid Households, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 31, Fasc. 4 (Nov., 2001), pp. 373-401
Prophets and Profits
This paper analyzes the disjuncture between the projected prosperity of male migrant traders of the Murid Sufi order and the actual ability of these traders to maintain the social relations that engender wealth. I focus on an exchange of bridewealth that ultimately resulted in a collapsed marriage to show how households are made and unmade across time and space by diasporic practices. I aim to show how two decades of neoliberal reform in Senegal …
Prophets and Profits
Beth Anne Buggenhagen, Prophets and Profits: Gendered and Generational Visions of Wealth and Value in Senegalese Murid Households, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 31, Fasc. 4 (Nov., 2001), pp. 373-401
Domestic Object(ion)s
Picking up the Thread
Picking up the Thread
Taking into account the significant body of critique built up around the Dogon corpus, I return to Geneviève Calame-Griaule s ethnography of speech among the Dogon, Ethnologie et langage: la parole chez les Dogon (Words and the Dogon World), to appreciate its role in moving language to the center of ethnographic research. Calame-Griaule s contributions included attention to the full range of communicative practices, giving theoretical weight to h…
Islam and Caste Knowledge Practices among Haalpulaar'en in Senegal
Islam and the Media of Devotion in and out of Senegal
Few devotees of the Muridiyya, a Sufi congregation that emerged in colonial Senegal at the turn of the 20th century, have the opportunity to glimpse or touch their spiritual masters. Exalted Murid figures rarely leave their compounds in rural Tuba, and access to them is restricted to high-ranking initiates such as Muslim scholars, government officials, and business leaders. Ordinary disciples are more likely to view religious figures in the varie…
Are births just "women's business"? Gift exchange, value, and global volatility in Muslim Senegal
Through global circuits of wage labor and capital, the Murid way has become an economic force in the Senegalese postcolony amid conditions of protracted global volatility. In this article, I analyze women's actions within these global circuits. Women create value by giving gifts during the celebration of births and marriages, gifts that are the product of and the motivating force behind Murid global trade. Female ritual activities, on which male …
Africa Interweave
This work is a book review considering the title Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas edited by Susan Cooksey
A Snapshot of Happiness
Young women who live in the improvised urban spaces on the outskirts of Senegal's capital city, Dakar, extemporize their respectability in a time of fiscal uncertainty through personal photography. The neighbourhood of Khar Yalla is an improvised, interconnected and multilayered space settled by families removed from the city centre during clean-up campaigns from the 1960s to the 1970s, by families escaping conflict in Casamance and Guinea-Bissau…
Muslims and New Media in West Africa
The African Photographic Archive
This work is a book review considering the title The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies edited by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury
Exhibition Reviews
What does it mean to produce, circulate, and display art in a global context from the viewpoint of Africa's westernmost city, Dakar? One of the ten major biennales in the world, the Dak'Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art, is an international exhibition featuring contemporary art produced by artists based on the continent and in the Diaspora. Curators Elise Atangana, Abdelkader Damani, and Ugochukwu Smooth Nzewi organized the eleventh editio…
Art and Activism in Africa
Area Studies and the Challenges of Creating a Space for Public Debate
Scholarship in the African humanities—art history, cultural anthropology, history, literature, religion, and so forth—has transcended disciplinary ways of knowing, transformed scholarly conversations from a focus on difference between Africa and the West to an emphasis on connections and convergence, and emphasized the universality of the particular. Today, the African humanities must confront another limitation in scholarly discourse about Afric…
If You Were in My Sneakers
If one of the defining images of the present is the unregulated migration of individuals and families across the Mediterranean in small boats, what does migration look like from the perspective of those based of the African continent? In this essay, I argue that Dakar‐based photographer Omar Victor Diop focuses his lens on the dignity of migrants, rather than the crisis of migration. In Project Diaspora: Self‐Portraits 2014, he reframes contempor…
Afro-Swedish Artistic Practices and Discourses in and out of Sweden
Sweden has long been known for its tolerance and openness. During the twentieth century, Swedish missionaries paved the way for Africans to migrate to Sweden, Swedish political figures campaigned for decolonization, and by the 1970s, Sweden was attracting people fleeing war-torn areas such as the Horn of Africa (Kubai 2016; Kushkush 2016). Yet recently, Sweden has had to contend with a sharp increase in the numbers of immigrants, refugees, and as…
Introduction to Special Issue
African artistic practices, new media, new platforms, and their study and use by scholars present opportunities to explore emergent intersections, volatili- ties, and futures. Questions arising from the intersections between past and present, old and new media, the volatilities of form, and imagined futures in contemporary African cultural production brought scholars from Indiana, Humboldt, and Bayreuth universities together for an interdisciplin…
Transformed from the Inside Out
Dak’Art, Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, is built from within, not without, argues Joanna Grabski in Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar. The Dak’Art Biennale reflects the artists, the urban context in which they create, and art-world globalization. From this artistic activity, the art world is structured, even if an infrastructure of museums, auction houses, and gallery spaces is not readily apparent …
Series Introduction
Series Introduction Beth Buggenhagen, series editor This issue marks the debut of a new feature of Africa Today through which we highlight the work of our long-serving past editors who have recently retired from the journal and from their academic positions at Indiana University. Here, we reflect on their contributions to shaping the journal since it came to Indiana University Press in 1999. Editing a journal is often a labor of love, a service t…
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