Eames, Elizabeth
Elizabeth A. Eames
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Associations
Anthropology
Pettengill Hall, Room 159
About
Education
B.A. Bryn Mawr College; M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard University
Teaching areas
Africa; Economic Anthropology; Film Studies; Gender Studies, Human Rights; Immigration and Refugee Studies.
Research
African immigrants in Maine, especially economic, employment, and resource allocation issues; impact of economic ‘development’ on urban and rural populations, especially its effects on gender relations; political mobilization of African market women; representations of Africa and Africans in various film and video industries.
My latest book: The Politics of Wealth in Southwestern Nigeria: Why Ondo’s Women Went to War.
Classes
- FYS 432: Disney Demystified: Race, Gender & Sexuality in “The Magic Kingdom”
- Anth 228: Person and Community in Contemporary Africa
- Anth 255: Cinematic Portraits of Africa
- Anth 339: Production & Reproduction: Economic Anthropology
- Anth s10: Encountering Community: Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology
- Anth s27: Decoding Disney: Race, Gender & Sexuality in the Animated Blockbuster
- Anth s29: Global Maine: Documentary Production in Community
- ANWS 275: Gender and Culture
- INDS 100: African Perspectives on Justice, Human Rights, and Renewal
- FYS 432 2018 syllabus Disney Demystified as of August 28 2018 without cover cartoon
- AN339 syllabus as of Sept 6 2018 with cover sheet and websites
- Needs Assessment Project for Community Credit Union in Androscoggin County, Maine
Expertise
African immigrants in Maine, African markets, African studies, community engagement, cultural politics, cultural politics of Hollywood film, culturally informed financial programming, Disney animation, economic anthropology, female chieftaincies, financial literacy, gender studies, human rights, impact of ‘economic development’ programs, Lewiston + Auburn, Nigerian bureaucracies, Ondo history, Ondo Women's War, public anthropology, representations of Africa and Africans in various film industries, restorative justice, sharia compliant banking, Somali Bantu resettlement, Somalis in diaspora, Somalis in Maine, visual anthropology, West African theories of gender, Women's protests, Yoruba culture
Links
- Official C.V.
- Lewiston/Auburn Shines (2013)
- Help Wanted (2009)
- Perceived Barriers to Somali Immigrant Employment in Lewiston Report (2008)
- Students explore local need for Islamic banking practices (2009)
- Dealing Courteously with Androscoggin Bank’s Somali Patrons
- The Androscoggin Bank & New Mainers – Part I
- The Androscoggin Bank & New Mainers – Part 2
- The Politics of Wealth in Southwestern Nigeria: Why Ondo’s Women Went to War