070.103 Africa and the Museum
070.616 Proseminar on Anthropological Theory
Social and economic anthropology, money and culture, household and gender; West Africa Jane I. Guyer is a Professor of Anthropology. She came to the Hopkins department from Northwestern University in 2002, having served previously on the faculties of Harvard and Boston University. Her research career has been devoted to economic transformations in West Africa, particularly the productive economy, the division of labor and the management of money. Theoretically she focuses on the interface between formal and informal economies, and particularly the instabilities that interface gives rise to. Her last co-edited collection is the result of collaborative work with a Nigeria-based network of social scientists, on currency devaluation in the popular economy under structural adjustment and military rule in the 1990s (Money Struggles and City Life, 2002). The work of the collaborative continues, on the topic of accountability. Her last book (Marginal Gains, 2004) re-examines the anthropological and historical record on monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa. She serves on several national and international committees, including the International Advisory Group to the World Bank and the Governments of Chad and Cameroon on the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (see www.gic-iag.org). A long term involvement with African Studies has fostered her interest in the humanities and arts. She has co-curated two exhibits and participated in humanities publications, largely by virtue of her work in various African Studies organizations, including her directorship of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University for seven years. On Production, Past and Present: - Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon. 1984. Boston University, African Studies Center. Research Study #15.
- Feeding African Cities. Essays in Regional Social History (editor) 1987. Edinburgh University Press and the International African Institute.
- An African Niche Economy. 1997. Edinburgh University Press and the International African Institute.
On Money: - Money Matters. Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African Communities. (editor) 1995. Heinemann.
- Money Struggles and City Life. (co-editor with LaRay Denzer and Adigun Agbaje). 2002. Heinemann
- Marginal Gains. Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. 2004. University of Chicago Press.
Exhibits - To Dance the Spirit. Masks of Liberia. Co-curator. 1986 Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
- Living Tradition in Africa and the Americas. The Legacy of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits. Co-curator. 1998. Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
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