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  • Name: Keith E. McNeal
    Assistant Professor, Anthropology
    Ph.D., Emory University, 2004
    Field of Expertise: McNeal's research interests include cultural and psychological anthropology, comparative religion, ritual and performance, psychoanalysis, Caribbean ethnology and the Americas in comparative perspective. He is also an expert on Indian and African diasporas.

    Region of Interest: Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, U.S.

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    Selected Publications:
  • "Doing the Mother's Caribbean Work: On Shakti and Society in Contemporary Trinidad." In Encountering Kali: In the Center, At the Margins, In the West , eds. R. F. McDermott and J. Kripal. Berkeley : University of California Press, pp. 223-248, 2003.
  • "Pantheons as Mythistorical Archives: Pantheonization and Remodeled Iconographies in two Southern Caribbean Possession Religions." In Activating the Past: Historical Memory in the Black Atlantic, eds. A. Apter and L. Derby. Cambridge : Scholars Press (in press).
  • "Shakti Puja (Kali Puja, Kali Ma Puja, Kali Mai Puja) Trinidad." In Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions , eds. P. Taylor and F. I. Case. Bloomington : Indiana University Press (in press).