PAMELA FELDMAN-SAVELSBERG — Sociology and Anthropology

Articles

Not only urban villagers: Comparing shifting concepts of ‘home’ among elite and non-elite Bamiléké women’s hometown associations. (part of a themed half-issue,“Rethinking the Politics of Belonging”) Africa 80(4), forthcoming 2010.  

(with Flavien T. Ndonko and Song Yang) The Social Management of Fetal and Infant Death: Dual Disruptions to Reproductive Lives and Discourses. Curare, 2006, 29(1):7-15.

�Cucinare dentro�. Parentela e genere nel linguaggio Bangangté sul matrimonio e la procreazione. pp. 141-172 In: Silvia Forni, Cecilia Pennacini and Chiara Pussetti, eds. Antropologia, Genere, Riproduzione: La costruzione culturale della femminilita. Rome: Carocci, 2006. [Italian translation with translator�s introduction and footnoted updates of 1995 article in American Ethnologist]

Gerüchtsgenealogie: Geschichte, Gedächtnis, und Gerüchte in Kamerun. [Genealogy of Rumor: History, Memory, and Rumors in Cameroon]. Kuckuck: Notizen zur Alltagskultur 21(2). 2006.

with Ndonko, F. T.; Yang, S. "How Rumor Begets Rumor: Collective Memory, Ethnic Conflict, and Reproductive Rumors in Cameroon."pp. 141-158 In Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend, edited by G.A. Fine, V. Campion-Vincent, and C. Heath. New Brunswick: Aldine Transaction Press, 2005.

with Ndonko, Flavien T. and Song Yang. "Remembering 'the Troubles': Reproductive Insecurity and the Management of Memory in Cameroon." Africa 2005, 75(1) : 10-29.

Variations in Royal Blue: Bamiléké Display Cloth from Ritual Respect to Ethnic Demonstration. HALI: Carpet, Textile and Islamic Art, 2005, 142:86-93.

"Doing Ethnography: Learning Ways of Thinking and Writing Anthropologically." pp. 123-136 In: Susan Singer and Carol Rutz, editors. Reflections on Learning as Teachers. Northfield, MN: College City Publications (2004).

"Bamileke." pp. 314-322 In: Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, editors. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. New York: Macmillan, under sponsorship of the Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, 2003.

"Cameroon." pp. 384-396 In: Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, editors. Countries and Thier Cultures. New York: Macmillan Reference, under sponsorship of the Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, 2001.

"Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health Problem? An Emic View from the Grassfields of Cameroon." pp. 215-232 In: Marcia Inhorn and Frank van Balen, editors. Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

with Ndonko, F. T.; Schmidt-Ehry, B. "Sterilizing Vaccines or the Politcs of the Womb: Retrospective Study of a Rumor in Cameroon." Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2000, 14: 159-179.

"Cooking Inside: Kinship and Gender in Bangangté Metaphors of Reproduction and Marriage." In: M. J. Maynes et al., editors. Gender, Kinship, Power: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative History. New York: Routledge, 1996.

"Cooking Inside: Kinship and Gender in Bangangté Metaphors of Reproduction and Marriage." American Ethnologist, 1995, 22: 483-501.

"Bamiléké." In: J.H. Middleton and A. Rassam, editors. Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 9. Africa and the Middle East. New York: G.K. Hall/MacMillan, 1995.

"Plundered Kitchens and Empty Wombs: Fear of Infertility in the Cameroonian Grassfields." Social Science and Medicine, 1994, 39: 463-474.

"Cooking Inside: Gender and Belonging in Bangangté Images of Marriage and Reproduction." Working Papers in History and Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1991.

"Bangangté Women's Images of Threats to their Reproductive Health: A Case Study." In: L.J. Slikkerveer and P. Nkwi, editors. Ethnomedical Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1991.

"The Changing Role of Bamiléké Women in Indigenous Health Systems: Socio-Economic Change and Ideologies of Therapeutic Choice." In: Communication, Mass Media and Development: Conference Proceedings. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University College of Continuing Professional Education, 1983. (microfiche)

Books

editor. Reproduction, Collective Memory, and Generation in Africa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Reviews

African Studies Review; American Ethnologist; International Journal of African Historical Studies; Medical Anthropology Quarterly.