Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Medical Anthropology
- Sociocultural Anthropology
- Africa
- Middle East
Areas of Interest
Not currently accepting new graduate student supervisions
Research Keywords: Social cultural anthropology, gender, embodiment, symbolism, religion, medical anthropology, colonialism
Research Region: Sudan, Africa, Middle East
Biography
Education
University of British Columbia, 1982
Publications
2021 Boddy, Janice, and Sarah Williams. Midwifery and Traditional Birth Attendants in Transnational Perspective. In D. Lueddeckens & J. Schleiter, eds. Routledge Handbook of Religion, Healing, and Medicine. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
2020 Re-thinking the Zero Tolerance Approach to FGM/C: The Debate Around Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery. Current Sexual Health Reports 12: 302-313 (Springer Nature).
2017 Just Sitting but Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan. Elusive Adulthoods. D. Durham and J. Solway, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 152-73
2016 Engendering change: New information technologies and the dynamics of gender in northern Sudan. In Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan: Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies, Sondra Hale and Gada Kadoda, eds., Lexington, 2016. Pp. 187-200).
2016 The normal and the aberrant in female genital cutting: shifting paradigms. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(2): 41-69.
2014 Davi Kopenawa’s Letter to the World. HAU Book symposium, Kopenawa, Davi, and Bruce Albert 2013, The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. Trans.
Nicholas Elliott & Alison Dundy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4(2): 329‐333. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau4.2
2013 (Ed. with Michael Lambek). A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Wiley-Blackwell.
2013 Under the Microscope. Review of Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950. Anthropology of this Century 8: online.
2011 Bodies under Colonialism. In Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of the Body. F. Mascia-Lees, ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
2010 The Work of Zar: Women and Spirit Possession in Northern Sudan. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy. W. Sax, J. Quack, & ]. Weinhild, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 113-130.
2009 Alliance and Endogamy in Northern Sudan. Changing Identifications and Alliances in North East Africa, Vol In Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia Sudan Borderlands. G. Schlee & E Watson eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp. 103-116.
2009 Veiled Christians and Embattled Missionaries in Colonial Sudan. Transnational Transcendence: Religion, History, and Globalization, Thomas Csordas, ed., Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp 97-119.
2008 Clash of Selves: Gender, Personhood, and Human Rights Discourse in Colonial Sudan. Canadian Journal of African Studies 41(3): 402-26.
2008 Legislating against Culture: Attempts to End Pharaonic Circumcision in Colonial Sudan, 1937-1949. Suomen Antropologi, Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 33 (1): 17-32.
2007 Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press
2007 Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan, in Beyond the Body Proper. Margaret Lock & Judith Farquhar, eds. Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp. 315-329 (Abridged reprint of 1998b).
2007 Allianz und Endogamie im Nordsudan: Implikationen für Identitätsbildung, in Freundschaft und Verwandschaft: Zur Unterscheidung und Verflechtung zweier Beziehungssysteme. Johannes F.K. Schmidt, Martine Guichard, Peter Schuster, Fritz Trillmich, Hg. Konstanz: UVK Verlagegesellschaft mbH, pp. 291-312.
2007 Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective. In Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context. Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan, eds. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, pp. 46-66.