Peter M. Weil
Biography
The research interests of Peter M. Weil, Associate Professor of Anthropology, include public art forms and political processes in complex societies; African art; material culture and culture history; typewriters and the development of the culture of the office in industrial societies; African culture and history; and the Mande societies of West Africa. His recent publications in 2012 EphemeraBlicks Alive!: Gender and Context in the Use of Blickensderfer Typewriters in Original 1897-1918 Photographs. , ETCetera, No. 97;EphemeraMaking It: Photographs as Evidence for Historical Processes in the Manufacturing of Typewriters, ETCetera, No. 96, December, pp. 6-9; 2005; andMasking for Money: The Commodification of Kankurang and Simba Mask Performances in Urban Gambia. In Money and Modernity in West Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives on Commercialization in the Mande Regions. Stephen Wooten and Jan Jansen, eds. Munster (Germany): Verlag Lit. Pp. 162-177.