Judith Scheele is a social anthropologist, who works in the Sahara. Scheele is based at the

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, France.

Career

Scheele obtained her DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford. From 2006-2009, she was a fellow by examination at

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, Oxford. In 2009 she was the

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Evans Pritchard lecturer. In 2009 Scheele was elected as a fellow of

, Oxford in 2009. Scheele is Directrice d’études at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in

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. She holds an

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Fellowship at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. In 2019 she gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at LSE in London. In 2021-2022, she was a member of the

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in Princeton, New Jersey.

Selected publications

Monographs

''Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (Algeria)'' (Oxford: James Currey, 2009). ''Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). (with Julien Brachet) ''The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Edited volumes

(ed. with James McDougall) ''Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012). (ed. with Fernanda Pirie) ''Legalism: Community and Justice'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). (ed. with Paul Dresch) ''Legalism: Rules and Categories'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). (ed. with A. Shryock) ''The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology: Form, Duration, Difference.'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019)

Articles

*(with Julien Brachet) 'Remoteness is power: disconnection as a relation in northern Chad', ''

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'' 27/2, (2019) 156-71. *'Ravens Reconsidered: Raiding And Theft Among Tubu-Speakers In Northern Chad', ''

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'' 61/3, (2018), 135-55 61/3 135-55 https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.34 *'The Libyan connection: settlement, war, and other entanglements in northern Chad', '' Journal of African History'' 57/1 (2016), 1-20. *(with Julien Brachet) 'A ‘despicable shambles’: labour, property and status in Faya-Largeau, northern Chad', ''

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'', 86/1, (2016), 122-41. *(with Julien Brachet) 'Fleeting glory in a wasteland: wealth, politics, and autonomy in northern Chad', ''

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'' 57/3 (2015), 723-52. *'The values of 'anarchy': moral autonomy among Tubu-speakers in northern Chad', ''

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'' 21/1 (2015), 32-48. *'A pilgrimage to Arawân: religious legitimacy, status and ownership in Timbuktu', ''

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'' 40/1, (2013), 165-81. *'Traders, saints and irrigation: reflections on Saharan connectivity', '' Journal of African History'' 51/3, (2010), 281-300. *'Councils without customs, qadis without states: property and community in the Algerian Touat', ''

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'' 17/3, (2010), 350-74. *'A taste for law: rule-making in Kabylia (Algeria)', ''

'' 50/4, (2008), 895-919. *'Recycling baraka: knowledge, politics and religion in contemporary Algeria', ''

'' 49/2, (2007), 304-28. *'Algerian Graveyard Stories', ''

'', 12/4, (2006), 859-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00367.x *'Generating Martyrdom: forgetting the war in contemporary Algeria', '' Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism'', Special Issue 6/2, (2006), 180-94.

References

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