Janet MacGaffey

Janet MacGaffey (1988)
Professor of Anthropology

Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
B.A., M.A., Cambridge University

Teaching Experience: St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Westchester University, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Bucknell University 1988 - present.

Teaching Specialties: economic anthropology, underground economies, women and economic development, kinship, women and the power structure cross-culturally, research in local communities, Africa.

Research Interests: underground economies and international trade outside the law; indigenous capitalism in Africa; religion, ethnicity and the local community in Pennsylvania's anthracite mining towns.

Selected Publications:

Books:

The Real Economy of Zaire. With Rukarangira wa Nkera, Makwala Ma Mavambu Ya Beda, Brooke G. Schoepf, Vwakyanakazi Mukohya and Walu Engundu. James Currey and the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Reprinted 1995. Entrepreneurs and Parasites.Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Articles:

Stephen Ellis and Janet MacGaffey. "Creatively Coping with Crisis: Entrepreneurs in Zaire's Second Economy." In African Entrepreneurship: Themes and Realities. Eds. Barbara McDade & Anita Spring. University Press of Florida, 1998.

Janet MacGaffey and Rémy Bazenguissa. "Research on Sub-Saharan Africa's Unrecorded International Trade: Some Methodological and Conceptual Problems," new series of Exploration Papers. (African Studies Review, 1996 and Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 1997).

"Ostentation in a Clandestine Setting: Young Congolese and Zairian Migrants in Nganda Bars in Paris" (Mondes en Développement, 1995).

"State Deterioration and Capitalist Development: The Case of Zaire." In African Capitalists in African Development, Colin Leys & Bruce Berman (eds). Lynne Reinner, 1994.

"Initiatives from Below: Zaire's 'Other Path' to Social and Economic Restructuring." In Goran Hyden and Michael Bratton (eds) Governance and Politics in Africa. Lynne Reinner, 1992.

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