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Diane M. Ciekawy
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Diane M. Ciekawy is an associate professor of anthropology
and Africa Studies faculty member at Ohio University. She has conducted
research in the Kenya coast for the past 25 years. At Ohio University she
teaches courses on religion, social movements, politics, the anthropology of
health and healing, and human rights and development. Over the past three years
she has developed course material for and facilitated OU-UNICEF Communication
for Development workshop training. She is the author of articles and book
chapters on religion, politics and development, most recently contributing to
the volume Contesting Identities: The
Mijikenda and Their Neighbors in Kenyan Coastal Society. The volume Dialogues of Witchcraft: Anthropological and
Philosophical Exchanges she co-edited with George C. Bond. She is currently
completing an ethnographic study of politics and healing practices among Mijikenda
in Coastal Kenya.
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