Auteur: François G. Richard

François G. Richard is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. His interests lie in social theory, political landscapes, government, subjectivity, materiality, colonialism and postcolonialism, and peasant societies, in Africa and within the African diaspora. He has published papers on the history of archaeological thought in Senegal, histories of objects and valuations, and geographies of power in Senegambia over the past 500 years. He has recently currently completed a book, titled Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin (Senegal) (to appear with the University of Chicago Press), which examines how the material qualities of rural worlds both assisted and obstructed projects of political centralization in west-central Senegal during the Atlantic and colonial eras.