Elisha Renne
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Associate Professor, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., New York University
Dr. Renne’s interests include African ethnology; fertility and reproductive health; gender relations; the anthropology of development; religion and social change; and the anthropology of cloth. Renne's current projects include a study of Hausa women and the effects of Islamic education in a Northern Nigerian town, and a study of textiles used in religious worship in southwestern Nigeria in the 20th century.
Recent Publications
Books
Renne, Elisha. 2003. Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press. Abstract.
Renne, Elisha, and E. van de Walle. 2001. Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Ebigbola, J.A., and Elisha Renne. 2000. Population and Development Issues: Ideas and Debates. Ibadan: African BookBuilders Ltd.
Journal Articles
Batterman, Stuart, Joseph Eisenberg, Rebecca Hardin, Margaret E. Kruk, Maria Carmen Lemos, Anna M. Michalak, Bhramar Mukherjee, Elisha Renne, Howard Stein, Cristy Watkins, and Mark L. Wilson. 2009. "Sustainable Control of Water-Related Infectious Diseases: A Review and Proposal for Interdisciplinary Health-Based Systems Research." Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(7): 1023-1032. DOI:10.1289/ehp.0800423. Licensed Access.
Renne, Elisha. 2009. "Consecrated garments and spaces in the cherubim and seraphim church diaspora." Material Religion, 5(1): 70-87. DOI:10.2752/175183409X418757. Licensed Access.
Akinwumi, T.M., and Renne, Elisha. 2008. "Commemorative textiles and Anglican Church history in Ondo, Nigeria." Textile-the Journal of Cloth & Culture, 6(2): 126-144. DOI:10.2752/175183508x327776. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Renne, Elisha. 2007. "Mass producing food traditions for west Africans abroad." American Anthropologist, 109(4): 616-625. DOI:10.1525/aa.2007.109.4.616. Licensed Access.
Renne, Elisha. 2006. "Perspectives on polio and immunization in Northern Nigeria." Social Science and Medicine, 63(7): 1857-1869. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.025. Licensed Access.
Renne, Elisha. 2004. "Dressing in the stuff of dreams: sacred dress and religious authority in southwestern Nigeria." Dreaming, 14(2-3): 120-135.
Chapters
Renne, Elisha. 2008. "Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria." In Anthropology and public health : bridging differences in culture and society edited by Hahn, Robert A., Inhorn, Marcia C.. :512-540. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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