Recent Work–Cabo Verde
Crossing Religious Borders: Jews and Cabo Verdeans
Lusophoning Mande Studies: Perspectives from the Cape Verde Islands and Their 550-Year Diaspora
Jews in/and/of Africa: New Research in Cape Verde and the Cape Verdean Diaspora
Religious Diversity in the Cabo Verdean Community
A Hero for Our/All Time
Recent Work–Children
Is It Time to Detach from Attachment Theory?
Crib, Lap, or Back? What Sleeping (and Awake) Babies Tell Us about How Culture Matters
Keller et al., The Myth of Universal Sensitive Responsiveness: Comment on Mesman et al. (2017)
Morelli et al., Bringing the Real World into Developmental Science
Morelli et al., Taking Culture Seriously
Morelli et al., Real-World Applications of Attachment Theory
Recent Work–Ethnographic Writing
Earlier Research Papers & Articles
American Premenstrual Syndrome: A Mute Voice
Babies as Ancestors, Babies as Spirits: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
Beyond the Lonely Anthropologist: Collaboration in Research and Writing
Cousin Marriage, Birth and Gender: Alliance Models among the Beng of Ivory Coast
Deconstructing the Notion of Education: A View from West Africa
Do Infants Have Religion? The Spiritual Lives of Beng Babies
Ethnography–Theory and Methods
Grasping the Nature of Pictures
Hyenas and Heteroglossia: Myth and Ritual among the Beng of Côte d’Ivoire
Infants, Ancestors and the Afterlife: Fieldwork’s Family Values in Rural West Africa
Interpreting Gender and Sexuality
Loggers v. Spirits in the Beng Forest, Côte d’Ivoire–Competing Models
Luring Your Child into this Life
The Perils of Popularizing Anthropology
Promoting an Anthropology of Infants: Some Personal Reflections
Quiet Crisis Building in the Horn of Africa
Revising the Text, Revisioning the Field: Reciprocity over the Long Term
Sex, Fertility and Menstruation among the Beng of the Ivory Coast: A Symbolic Analysis
Morelli et al., Taking Culture Seriously
Witches, Kings, and the Sacrifice of Identity
My colleague Judy DeLoache and I spent a delightful week at Marbach Castle (in Öhningen, Germany) in late August 2015, with support from the Jacobs Foundation (based in Zurich), for a luxurious writing retreat–working on final stages of the new edition of A World of Babies.
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