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From Coffee to Manhood: An Anthropological Inquiry into Tunisia's 'Social Economy'
Pleae join us for a lecture by the 2009-2010 CCAS Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Rodney W. Collins.
Collins recently received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His work analyzes the complex circuitry of market-state-society in North Africa, especially as it irradiates the formation of contemporary male subjectivities.
In his doctoral research, Collins approached this nexus through an examination of the political economic links between the coffee trade, the public coffeehouse (qahwa sha‘abiya), and manhood in Tunis, Tunisia. The research entailed two years of fieldwork in Tunis and resulted in a historical ethnography entitled, “From Coffee to Manhood: Grounds for Exchange in the Tunisian Coffeehouse, ca. 1898-2008.” ......"
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