Guest:
Mike McGovern, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
February 23, 2011
Professor McGovern is a political anthropologist who works in West Africa and uses a variety of sources from kinship idioms to the aesthetics of state-sponsored folklore to try to understand postcolonial states within the arc of longer historical trajectories. We talk with him about his first book, entitledMaking War in Côte d’Ivoire.
