Christy Schuetze

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Department Chair, Sociology & Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8108
  2. Kohlberg Hall 238
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:15am- 12:30pm

Affiliations: Lang Center, Black Studies Program, Sociology & Anthropology, Gender & Sexuality Center

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
B.A., Anthropology, International Affairs Concentration, The Colorado College, 1998

Selected Publications

Schuetze, Christy; August 2023,  Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Social Healing, and Survival in Mozambique.

Schuetze, Christy; [in preparation for submission to American Ethnologist]; “Pastors as Patrons: Patterns of Pentecostal Church Leadership in Mozambique.”

Schuetze, Christy; [in preparation for submission to American Anthropologist]; “The Economy of Spirits and the Moral Politics of Money: Changing Human-Spirit Relationships in Central Mozambique.”

Schuetze, Christy; 2015;  “Narrative Fortresses: Crisis Narratives and the Production of Conflict in the Conservation of Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique.” Conservation and Society 13(2): 141-153.

Schuetze, Christy and Carolien Jacobs; 2011; "Violence Against Violence: In Search of Security and Justice," Etnofoor 23(2):17-36.

Schuetze, Christy and Carolien Jacobs; 2011; "Justice With Their Own Hands: Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique," in Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt, eds. Globalizing Lynching History. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

2010. PhD dissertation; "The World is Upside Down: Women's Participation in Religious Movements and the Search for Social Healing in Central Mozambique."

2008. "Examining the Role of Language in Healing: a Comparison of Two Therapeutic Interventions for Spirit Possession," pp. 33-54 in Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton, eds., Health, Knowledge, and Belief Systems in Africa. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Baptista, Samuel Joao, Celestino Sacaune Canda & Christy Schuetze; 2003; Kuona na Kulemba: Malongero a chi-Gorongosi. Translation from chiSena to chiGorongosi of adult literacy materials; Ministry of Education, Mozambique.

Research and Teaching Interests

Anthropology of Africa; anthropology of religion; medical anthropology; globalization; anthropology of development; health and society; Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity; environmental anthropology; post-colonial economics and gender; state and traditional relations in governance.

Courses and Seminars Taught

Christy Schuetze on "Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Women’s Religious Participation in Central Mozambique"

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This presentation represents the culmination of more than seven years Assistant Professor of Anthropology Christy Schuetze spent living and working in Mozambique since 1998. She explores the nature of rural women’s involvement in two very different and rapidly growing religious movements—the exponential growth of Pentecostal churches and a simultaneous proliferation of female spirit mediums. In this talk, Schuetze analyzes these phenomena through the lens of social healing, revealing how women are engaged in collective efforts to reorder society in order to improve their social position and the stability of their domestic relationship.