Wendi A. Haugh

MAJOR INTERESTS

• National identity
• Popular culture
• Language ideologies
• Political and linguistic anthropology
• Sub-Saharan Africa, esp. northern Namibia

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• “Against Apartheid: (Inter)nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Northern Namibia” (under review)
• “Namibia,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide: Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. Laura Arntson. Westport: Greenwood Publishing (in press)
• “Namibia,” in Countries and Their Cultures, volume 3. Eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. New York: Thomson Gale. Pp. 1537-1544 (2001)

SELECTED RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

• “Song and dance: Performing political identities in northern Namibia,” Northeastern Workshop on Southern Africa (2007)
• “The role of song in the circulation of nationalist discourses in northern Namibia,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2006)
• “A luta continua: Threats to the health of the nation in post-independence Namibia,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting (2005)
• “Secrecy and the state: Studying the circulation of political discourse in northern Namibia,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2003)
  

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