Bilinda Straight

Publications

BOOKS

2006 Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. November.

2005 Women on the Verge of Home. Bilinda Straight (editor). SUNY (State University of New York) Press.

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

In Press       "Documenting the Consequences of Endemic Warfare in Three Pastoralist Communities of Northern Kenya: A    
                        Conceptual Framework." (Straight, second author; Authors: Ivy Pike, Bilinda Straight, Matthias Oesterle, Charles
                        Hilton, and Adamson Lanyasunya). Social Science Medicine.

2009            "The Sense of War Songs." In Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (ed.) Violence Ethnographic Encounters. Berg October
                        2009.

2009            "Sensing Divinity, Death, and Resurrection: Theorizing Experience Through Miracles." In David Howes (ed.)
The Sixth Sense Reader. Berg. October 2009.

2009            "Making Sense of Violence in the Badlands of Kenya." Anthropology and Humanism. Special Issue,        
                        "Ethnographies of Violence," Michael Harkin and Neil Whitehead, eds. Vol. 34(1): 21-30.

2008            "Killing God: Extraordinary Moments in the Colonial Mission Encounter." Current Anthropology. Vol. 49(5): 837-860.

2007            "House, Fire, Gender." Material Religion 3(1): 48-61. [Material Religion was runner-up for Council of Editors of Learned Journals' 'Best New Journal' Award, 2006.].

2006           "Introduction." In Becoming Dead. The Entangled Agencies of the Dearly Departed. Special Issue of Anthropology and Humanism 31(2): 101-110. Bilinda Straight, Special Issue Edito.

2006 A World-Creating Approach to Belief. Pp. 104-122 In James White (ed.) Talking About Religion. University of Notre Dame Press.

2005 In the Belly of History: Memory, Forgetting, and the Hazards of Reproduction Among Samburu in Northern Kenya. Africa 75(1): 83-104.

2005 Introduction. Pp. 1-25 In Bilinda Straight (ed.) Women on the Verge of Home. SUNY.

2005 Migration, Loss, and Identity in an Appalachian Woman’s Life History. Pp. 89-107 In Bilinda Straight (ed.) Women on the Verge of Home. SUNY.

2005 Cutting Time: Beads, Sex, and Songs in the Making of Samburu Memory. Pp. 267-283 In The Qualities of Time: Temporal Dimensions of Social Form and Human Experience. Wendy James and David Mills (eds.). ASA Monograph Series. Routledge.

2003 Samburu. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, Kluwer/Plenum.

2002 Introduction. In Bilinda Straight (special issue editor) “Conflict at the Center of Ethnography,” Special issue of Anthropology and Humanism 27(1): 3-9.

2002 ‘Between Mamas’: The Anthropology of a Dispute, or—The Perils of Having Sons in the Field. In Bilinda Straight (special issue editor)“Conflict at the Center of Ethnography,” Special issue of Anthropology and Humanism 27(1): 43-59.

2002 From Samburu Heirloom to New Age Artifact: The Cross-Cultural Consumption of Mporo Marriage Beads. American Anthropologist 104(1): 7-21.

2000 Development Ideologies and Local Knowledge Among Samburu Women in Northern Kenya. In Dorothy Hodgson (ed.) Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture, and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist. Oxford, UK: James Currey.

1997 Gender, Work, and Change Among Samburu Pastoralists of Northern Kenya. Research in Economic 

                        Anthropology 18: 65-91.