SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

West, Harry G. (2009) Kupilikula: O Poder e o Invisível em Mueda. Lisboa: Impresa de Ciências Sociais.

West, Harry G. (2007) Ethnographic Sorcery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

West, Harry G. (2005) Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Domingos, Nuno, Sobral, José Manuel and West, Harry G., eds. (2014) Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape. London: Bloomsbury.

West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, eds. (2008) Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. Oxford: Berghahn.

Luedke, Tracy and West, Harry G., eds. (2005) Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

West, Harry G. and Sanders, Todd, eds. (2003) Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press.

West, Harry G., ed. (1997) Conflict and its Resolution in Contemporary Africa. Lanham: University Press of America. (Miller Center series on a world in change, v. 9.)

Book Chapters

Domingos, Nuno, Sobral, José Manuel and West, Harry G. (2014) 'Approaching Food and Foodways between the Country and the City through the Work of Raymond Williams.' In: Domingos, Nuno, Sobral, José Manuel and West, Harry G., (eds.), Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-17.

West, Harry G. (2014) 'Bringing it All Back Home: Reconnecting the Country and the City through Heritage Food Tourism in the French Auvergne.' In: Domingos, Nuno, Sobral, José Manuel and West, Harry G., (eds.), Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 73-88.

Hull, Elizabeth (2014) 'Bringing the City to the Country: Supermarket Expansion, Food Practices and Aesthetics in Rural South Africa.' In: Domingos, Nuno, Sobral, José Manuel and West, Harry G., (eds.), Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 59-72.

West, Harry G. (2014) 'Ethical Food Systems, Between Suspicion and Hope.' In: Jung, Yuson, Klein, Jakob A. and Caldwell, Melissa L., (eds.), Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 298-304.

West, Harry G. (2013) 'Appellations and Indications of Origin, Terroir, and the Social Construction and Contestation of Place-Named Foods.' In: Murcott, Anne, Belasco, Warren and Jackson, Peter, (eds.), The Handbook of Food Research. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 209-228.

West, Harry G. (2013) 'The Audacity of Unwrapping and Rewrapping, Unstuffing and Restuffing, Virtually Everything (Including, Especially, Cheese).' In: McWilliams, Mark, (ed.), Wrapped and Stuffed: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012. Totnes, UK: Prospect Books, pp. 40-43.

West, Harry G. (2013) 'Poder e a Paisagem Social em Mudança na Mueda, Moçambique.' In: Domingos, Nuno and Peralta, Elsa, (eds.), A Cidade e Império: Dinâmicas Coloniais e Reconfigurações Pós-Coloniais. Lisboa: Ed. 70, pp. 167-220.

West, Harry G. (2013) 'Thinking Like a Cheese: Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Reproduction of Knowledge in Contemporary Artisan Cheesemaking.' In: Ellen, Roy, Lycett, Stephen J. and Johns, Sarah E., (eds.), Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 320-345.

West, Harry G. (2013) 'Wrapped and Stuffed: Provocative Misinterpretations on a Theme.' In: McWilliams, Mark, (ed.), Wrapped and Stuffed: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012. Totnes, UK: Prospect Books, p. 39.

Klein, Jakob A., Pottier, Johan and West, Harry G. (2012) 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Food.' In: Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Richard A., (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 293-302.

Latham, Kevin (2009) 'Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. New York: Berghahn Books.

Klein, Jakob A. (2008) '"For eating, it’s Guangzhou": regional culinary traditions and Chinese socialism.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.

West, Harry G. (2008) 'From Socialist Chiefs to Postsocialist Cadres: Neotraditional Authority in Neoliberal Mozambique.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 29-43.

West, Harry G. (2008) '"Govern Yourselves!": Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique.' In: Paley, Julia, (ed.), Democracy: Anthropological Approaches. Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press, pp. 97-121.

Raman, Parvathi and West, Harry G. (2008) 'Poetries of the Past in a Socialist World Remade.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1-28.

Raman, Parvathi (2008) 'Signifying Something: Che Guevara and neoliberal alienation in London.' In: Raman, Parvathi and West, Harry G., (eds.), Enduring socialism: explorations of revolution and transformation, restoration and continuation. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 250-270.

Campbell, John (2006) 'Corruption and the one-party state in Tanzania: A view from Dar es Salaam, 1964-2000.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism : Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

West, Harry G. (2005) 'Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast Africa.' In: Luedke, Tracy and West, Harry G., (eds.), Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 1-20.

West, Harry G. (2005) 'Working the Borders to Beneficial Effect: The Not-So-Indigenous Knowledge of Not-So-Traditional Healers in Northern Mozambique.' In: Luedke, Tracy and West, Harry G., (eds.), Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 21-42.

West, Harry G. (2004) 'Inverting the Camel's Hump: Jorge Dias, His Wife, Their Interpreter, and I.' In: Handler, Richard, (ed.), Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 51-90.

Sanders, Todd and West, Harry G. (2003) 'Introduction: Power Revealed and Concealed in the New World Order.' In: West, Harry G. and Sanders, Todd, (eds.), Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1-37.

West, Harry G. (2003) 'Tax Receipts, Virgin Mary Medallions and Party Membership Cards: (In)visible Tokens of Power on the Mueda Plateau.' In: West, Harry G. and Sanders, Todd, (eds.), Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 92-124.

West, Harry G. (1998) 'Traditional Authorities and the Mozambican Transition to Democratic Governance.' In: Graybill, Lyn and Thompson, Kenneth W., (eds.), Africa's Second Wave of Freedom: Development, Democracy, and Rights. Lanham: University Press of America, pp. 65-80.

West, Harry G. (1997) 'Mozambique: People and Cultures.' In: Middleton, John and Miller, Joseph C., (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 198-202.

Journal Article

West, Harry G. and Plender, Celia (2015) 'An Interview with James C. Scott.' Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 15 (3). pp. 1-8.

Grasseni, Cristina, Paxson, Heather, Bingen, Jim, Cohen, Amy J., Freidberg, Susanne and West, Harry G. (2014) 'Introducing a Special Issue on the Reinvention of Food: Connections and Mediations.' Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 14 (4). pp. 1-6.

West, Harry G. and Domingos, Nuno (2012) 'Gourmandizing Poverty Food: The Serpa Cheese Slow Food Presidium.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 12 (1). pp. 120-143.

West, Harry G. (2012) 'Je m’appelle . . . Cheese.' Food, Culture and Society, 15 (1). pp. 8-12.

West, Harry G. (2008) 'Food Fears and Raw-Milk Cheese.' Appetite, 51 (1). pp. 25-29.

West, Harry G. (2004) 'Villains, Victims, or Makonde in the Making?: Reading the Explorer Henry O'Neill and Listening to the Headman Lishehe.' Ethnohistory, 51 (1). pp. 1-43.

West, Harry G. (2003) 'Voices Twice Silenced: Betrayal and Mourning at Colonialism's End in Mozambique.' Anthropological Theory, 3 (3). pp. 343-65.

West, Harry G. (2003) 'Sorcery and Mozambican Democracy.' PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 26 (1). pp. 119-127.

West, Harry G. and Sharpes, Stacy (2002) 'Dealing with the Devil: Meaning and the Marketplace in Makonde Sculpture.' African Arts, 35 (3). pp. 32-39.

West, Harry G. (2001) 'Sorcery of Construction and Socialist Modernization: Ways of Understanding Power in Post-Colonial Mozambique.' American Ethnologist, 28 (1). pp. 119-150.

West, Harry G. (2000) 'Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO's "Female Detachment".' Anthropological Quarterly, 73 (4). pp. 180-194.

West, Harry G. and Kloeck-Jenson, Scott (1999) 'Betwixt and Between: "Traditional Authority" and Democratic Decentralisation in Post-War Mozambique.' African Affairs, 98 (393). pp. 455-484.

West, Harry G. (1998) '"This Neighbor is Not My Uncle!": Changing Relations of Power and Authority on the Mueda Plateau.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 24 (1). pp. 143-161.

West, Harry G. (1997) 'Creative Destruction and Sorcery of Construction: Power, Hope and Suspicion in Post-War Mozambique.' PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 20 (1). pp. 13-31.

West, Harry G. and Myers, Gregory W. (1996) 'A Piece of Land in a Land of Peace? State Farm Divestiture in Mozambique.' Journal of Modern African Studies, 34 (1). pp. 27-51.

West, Harry G. and Fair, Jo Ellen (1993) 'Development Communication and Popular Resistance in Africa: An Examination of the Contest over "Tradition" and "Modernity" Through Media.' African Studies Review, 36 (1). pp. 91-114.

Book Reviews

West, Harry G. (2013) 'Review of: 'The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America' by Heather Paxson.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (4). pp. 882-914.

West, Harry G. (2006) 'James Ferguson's Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order.' Anthropological Quarterly, 79 (1). pp. 153-159.

West, Harry G. (2003) 'A Review of From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland (Harri Englund).' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9 (2). pp. 361-362.

West, Harry G. (2002) 'A Review of Makonde (Jesper Kirknaes and Jorn Korn) and of A Host of Devils: The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture (Zachary Kingdon).' International Review of African American Art, 35 (4). pp. 84-86.

West, Harry G. (1998) 'Seeing Like James Scott: A Review of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James Scott.' PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 21 (2). pp. 127-131.