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, ed. Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and Samuel Mark Anderson, 249–79. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

Anderson, Samuel Mark. "Crosscurrents of Contagion: Snakes, Rumours, Rivers, and Ebola in Sierra Leone's Borderlands." Antipode 56, no. 3 (2024): 847-871.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. "A disarmament program for witches: The prospective politics of antiwitchcraft, postwarcraft, and rebrandcraft in Sierra Leone." Cultural Anthropology 34, no. 2 (2019): 240-271.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. "Letting the mask slip: the shameless fame of Sierra Leone's Gongoli." Africa 88, no. 4 (2018): 718-743.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. “Inherent Vice: Contagion and the Archive in The Times Square Show.”E-misferica (2009).

Anderson, Samuel Mark. 2021. Review of "Out of war: violence, trauma and the political imagination in Sierra Leone," Mariane C. Ferme. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27, no. 3 (September): 730–32.

Anderson, Samuel Mark. “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 Publications. 2019

Anderson, Samuel Mark. Review of Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction, Michael Jackson. American Ethnologist 43, no. 2 (May): 384–5. 2019. 

Anderson, Samuel Mark. Review of Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone, eds. Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot. College Art Association Reviews. May 5, 2016.