[Sarai Newsletter] Abdellah Hammoudi Public Lecture

[The Sarai Programme]

The CSDS Invites you the Rajni Kothari Annual Lecture:
 

Giving and receiving yeast: or how to keep radically differing identities
together


By

 

Abdellah Hammoudi,


Date : Wednesday, 15Decemeber
Time : 5 pm
Location: CSDS
 

Abdellah Hammoudi is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University,
USA, and has been the occupant of the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at
CSDS from October this year.


Hammoudi has done extensive work on the ethno-history of his native
Morocco, fieldwork in Morocco, Libya and Saudi Arabia, as well as
participated in major development projects in these three countries. His
most recent book, Une saison à la Mecque, published by Le Seuil, Paris, in
2004, was translated into English: A Season in Mecca, Hill and Wang, 2006,
as well as in several other languages including Arabic, Dutch, Italian and
German. Two other books published in French were translated into English:
The Victim and Its Masks, Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in Maghreb, and
Master and Disciple, The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism
in Comparative Perspectives, both published by University of Chicago Press.
More recently, he edited Democratizing the South Shore, Between Persuasion
and Invasion, in French, CNRS, 2007.