PhD in Anthropology & History (2020)
About
Jamie Lee Andreson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Anthropology and History program at the University of Michigan. She received her M.A. in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia and she is in the final stages of publishing her master's research (written in Portuguese) into a book with the UFBA University Press (Editora UFBA). Her work focuses regionally on Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and thematically on gender, religion, cultural studies, patrimony, the history of Anthropology and African heritage in the Americas.
Through ethnographic and historical inquiry, her Ph.D. dissertation examines how Brazilian Candomblé leaders produce the past within the context of an African diasporic religion of the Americas. The research materials include written, visual, oral and material sources with a focus on the “Angolan nation” of Candomblé in Salvador, Bahia and the trope of the “matriarch” as a foundational source of African knowledge in Brazil. As an anthropology of history-making, the work discusses the strategies employed by Candomblé religious leaders to build possible pasts and futures in relation to the history of Africa, the slave trade, slavery and Afro-Brazilian ancestry.
Publications
Andreson, Jamie. Ruth Landes e a Cidade das Mulheres: a antropologia do Candomblé no século XX. Salvador: Editora UFBA, forthcoming 2019.
Andreson, Jamie Lee. Book Review, The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986. Miguel Alonso, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 200 pp. In The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Oct. 31, 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12371 .
Andreson, Jamie (translator). Santos, J. and Queiroz, D. “The Impact of the ‘Quota System’ in the Federal University of Bahia (2004-2012)”. Creative Education, 7, 2678-2695, Jul/2016. doi: 10.4236/ce.2016.717251.
Andreson, Jamie and Thais Ianarelli (co-translator). Nicolau Luis Parés. “Militiamen, barbers, and slave-traders: Mina and Jeje Africans in a catholic brotherhood (Bahia, 1770-1830)”. Revista Tempo. V. 20, 2014.
Andreson, Jamie. “Ruth Landes e Édison Carneiro: matriarcado e etnografia nos candomblés da Bahia (1938-9)”, Revista do Instituto Geográfico Histórico da Bahia. Salvador, v. 108, jan./dez. 2013, p. 77-106. http://media.wix.com/ugd/e32957_26d995f8f5004b02a60e7af44ff1864f.pdf.
Andreson, Jamie. “Edison Carneiro and Ruth Landes: Authority and Matriarchy in Candomblé Field Research, 1938-9”, Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 25(1):117-145, Spring 2012. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9q13z1w6 .
Affiliations
- Dept of Anthropology and History
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS)
- Dept of Afro-American and African Studies (DAAS)
Awards
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Second Place, Sílvio Romero Prize (2017). Centro Nacional de Folclore e Cultura Popular (CNFCP), Rio de Janeiro
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Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (2016 - 2017)
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Ruth Landes Memorial Fund Translation Grant (2016)
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FLAS Portuguese Language Fellowship (2013)
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Florence Mason Palmer Memorial Essay Prize. UC Berkeley, 2012
Fields of Study
- 19th and 20th Century Brazil
- African Diaspora religions
- Anthropology of Gender
