Mahir Saul

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Russian, East European, and Eurasian

Office:
Anthropology 109 Davenport Hall 607 S Mathews M/C 148 Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)244-3502
Email: m-saul@illinois.edu

Saul, Mahir. West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War . Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.

"History as Cultural Redemption in Gaston Kaboré’s Precolonial-era Films." Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen. Ed. Vivan Bickford-Smith. Cape Town: Double Storey Books, 2006. 11-27, 324-326.
"Africa South of the Sahara." A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. London: Edward Elgar, 2005. 500-514.

Saul, Mahir. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010.

"Méthodes en histoire orale. Genèse de l’autorité politique moogo." L'Homme (2007): 215-232.
"Islam and West African Anthropology." Africa Today 53.1 (2006): 2-33.
"Le fanga comme savoir et destinée: Signification sociale de la réussite personnelle au Soudan occidental." L'Homme (2006): 63-90.
Saul, Mahir. "Money in colonial transition: Cowries and francs in West Africa." American Anthropologist 106.1 (2004): 71-84.
"The War Houses of the Watara in West Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 31.3 (1998): 537-570.