Please welcome Maia Green!

It is my great pleasure to welcome our latest guest blogger, Maia Green. Maia teaches anthropology at the University of Manchester and is the first Africanist to guest blog here on SM. Her original fieldwork was on the impacts of Catholic Christianity in Southern Tanzania, and her volume ” _Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity After Mission in Southern Tanzania_ “:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521621895/sr=8-1/qid=1139853846/ref=sr_1_1/002-8806560-6968065?%5Fencoding=UTF8 appeared from Cambridge University Press in 2003. She’s continued working in Tanzania in more recent work, but now explores a wider range of institutions and processes, including health sector reform, transformations in anti-witchcraft practices and the practice and culture of international development. Her work also has an ‘applied’ dimension, since she has combined academic anthropology with work as a policy analyst and as an adviser to international development agencies. We’re looking forward to seeing Maia think about anthropology’s engagement not just with policy, but with a variety of different perspectives from outside academia. What better topic to cover on a space like a blog? We’re very happy to have Maia with us and very much look forward to reading her columns. Everyone please join me in welcoming Maia!

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