The Wisdom of West African Healers: Lessons for a Troubled World

In this installment of our Africana Lecture Series, we welcome Paul Stoller to present, "The Wisdom of West African Healers: Lessons for a Troubled World."

Paul Stoller is a Permanent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences/Friedrich Alexander University/Erlangen-Nuremberg and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University. In his more than 35 years of anthropological research and writing, Stoller has focused on Songhay religion in the Republic of Niger and the life of West African street traders in New York City. Stoller has published 16 books, including ethnographies, biographies, memoirs, and three novels. In 2013, King Carl Gustav of Sweden awarded him the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in recognition of his scientific contributions to anthropology.

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