Peter M. Weil
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
The research interests of Peter M. Weil, Associate Professor of Anthropology, include public art forms and political processes in complex societies; African art; material culture and culture history; typewriters and the development of the culture of the office in industrial societies; African culture and history; and the Mande societies of West Africa. His recent publications in 2012 “Ephemera–Blicks Alive!: Gender and Context in the Use of Blickensderfer Typewriters in Original 1897-1918 Photographs.” , ETCetera, No. 97;“Ephemera—Making It: Photographs as Evidence for Historical Processes in the Manufacturing of Typewriters,” ETCetera, No. 96, December, pp. 6-9; 2005; andMasking for Money: The Commodification of Kankurang and Simba Mask Performances in Urban Gambia. In Money and Modernity in West Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives on Commercialization in the Mande Regions. Stephen Wooten and Jan Jansen, eds. Munster (Germany): Verlag Lit. Pp. 162-177.
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