In Memoriam: 1930-2023

Dr. Beverley Gartrell received her BA in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia, her MA in Anthropology (With Distinction) from the University of Leeds, England, and her PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She taught at Makerere University College and Queens College, CUNY before coming to 丁香园AV in 1977. Her passion for teaching included a broad range of interests: social change and development; ecological anthropology; economic anthropology; political anthropology; anthropology of complex societies; comparative colonial systems; applied anthropology; peasant studies; gender roles in Africa. She conducted fieldwork in Tanzania, Uganda, and Great Britain.

PhD (Anthropology), City University of New York

MA (Anthropology), University of Leeds

BA (Philosophy), University of British Columbia

Agricultural development in Third World countries, especially the relation between national policy decisions and change in rural areas; power and bureaucracy; women's participation in rural development; the political economy and ideology of colonial rule.

1988 "Prelude to Disaster: The Case of Karamoja." In David Anderson and Douglas Johnson, eds., The Ecology of Survival: History and Ecological Change in Northeast Africa, London: Crook Green.

1986 "Colonialism and the Fourth World: Notes on Variations in Colonial Situations." Culture 6(1): 3-17.

1985 "Searching for the Roots of Famine: The Case of Karamoja." Review of African Political Economy No. 33: 102-109.

1984 "Colonial Wives: Victims or Villains?" In Hilary Callan and Shirley Ardener, eds., The Incorporated Wife. London: Croom Helm.

1983 "British Administrators, Colonial Chiefs and the Comfort of Tradition: An Example from Uganda." African Studies Review 26(1): 1-24.

1979 "Is Ethnography Possible? A Critique of African Odyssey." Journal of Anthropological Research 35(4): 426-446.