Miroslava Prazak
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Spring 2008
A.B. Smith College
Ph.D. Yale University
A.B. Smith College
Ph.D. Yale University
MAJOR INTERESTS
- Development and cultural change
- Globalization
- Inequality, especially gender- and age-based hierarchies
- Sexuality, reproduction, and family formation
- Impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Africa
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Introducting Alternative Rites of Passage." Africa Today 53(4) forthcoming 2007.
- "Kenyan Families," in Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi and Baffour K. Takyi, eds. African Famlies at the Turn of the 21st Century, 2006.
- "Seeds of Continuity, Lines of Change: Families and Work in Rural Kenya." Anthropology of Work Review 21(4):21-30, 2000.
- Talking About Sex: Contemporary Construction of Sexuality in Rural Kenya. Africa Today 47(3/4):82-97, 2000.
- "'We're on The Run': Ideas of Progress among Adolescents in Rural Kenya." Journal of African Cultural Studies 12(1):93-110, 1999.
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