Wives, chiefs, and weavers: Gender relations in Bunu Yoruba society
Elisha P. Renne
Elisha P. Renne is professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on medical anthropology; the anthropology of development; gender relations; and religion and textiles, specifically in Nigeria. Recent publications include The Political of Polio in Northern Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2010); Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town (Edinburgh University Press and the University of Michigan Press, 2003); Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations (co-edited with E. van de Walle; University of Chicago Press, 2001); and Cloth That Does Not Die (University of Washington Press, 1995); as well as articles in the Africa (1998, 2005), African Arts (1986, 1992, 1999), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1991, 2002), Population and Development Review (1995), Social Science & Medicine (1996, 1997, 2006), and Textile History (1992, 2007).
Professor and Associate Director
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS)
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan