Publications

Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers, and Samuel Anderson, eds. The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. “Times Past Under Fire: Accounting for the Efficacy of Reconciliation Rituals in Postwar Sierra Leone.” In The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises, edited by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and Samuel Mark Anderson, 249–79. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2019. “A Disarmament Program for Witches: The Prospective Politics of Antiwitchcraft, Postwarcraft, and Rebrandcraft in Sierra Leone.” Cultural Anthropology 34, no. 2 (May): 240-71. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca34.2.04.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2018. “Letting the Mask Slip: The Shameless Fame of Sierra Leone’s Gongoli.” Africa 88, no. 4 (November): 718-43. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000197201800044x.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2009. “Inherent Vice: Contagion and the Archive in The Times Square Show.” e-misférica: Performance and Politics in the Americas 6.1.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2019. “Sierra Leone: History, Culture, and Geography of Music” and “Sierra Leone: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice.” In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Janet Sturman, 1946-51. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n645 and https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n646.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2016. Review of Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction, Michael Jackson. American Ethnologist 43, no. 2 (May): 384–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12320.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2016. Review of Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone, eds. Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot. caa.reviews (May 5). http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2695.