Dr. Zainabu Jallo
Assistant / Postdoc
Assistant / Postdoc
Münsterplatz 19
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Curriculum Vitae
Zainabu Jallo is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Anthropology. Her current research project on material religion and criminal Anthropology draws from aspects of her previous research on Afro-Brazilian religions and extends to Cuba and Haiti.
In a recently concluded Guest Postdoctoral Fellowship within the SNF project “Conflict and Cooperation. Episteme and Methods Between Art History, Art and Ethnology in the Performative Pictorial Practices of Vodun” (University of Zurich), Zainabu worked on the significance of materiality in transatlantic continuities of Vodun. Her project, “Material Expressions of West African Spirituality in the Americas: Transatlantic Continuities in Haiti”, was carried out in collaboration with the Frobenius Institut, Frankfurt.
Zainabu`s doctoral dissertation (University of Bern), “The Sacred and the Spectacular: Diasporic Consciousness through the Material Culture of Brazilian Candomblé”, was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Doc.CH). It outlined the historical evolution and visibility of a cultural practice through its objects. While tracing their implications on the cultural politics of Brazil, the project also underpinned parallel yet antipodal developments of diasporic consciousness and national cultural identification in Brazil.
Her MA thesis (University of Bern), “Mythopoeisis in the Reinvention of an Ethnic Self: Aesthetic Tensions in Borderlands/La Frontera and A Cannon Between my Knees.” accentuated the complex relationships amidst myth, culture, and ideology in Native American Literature.
Main Areas of Work
- Criminal Anthropology (in relation to objects)
- Material Culture
- Provenance Research
- Architectural Anthropology
- Diasporic Consciousness
Regional Focus
- Brazil
- Haiti
- Cuba
Projects
- Criminal Anthropology (ongoing)
https://www.fromthesacredtothespectacular.com - Material Expressions of West African Spirituality in the Americas: Transatlantic Continuities in Haiti (ended)
vodun-epistemologies.ch/zainabu-jallo-2/