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1. Christopher J. Hohl
Department of Anthropology and African Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
chohl@uni-mainz.de
November 2018
Albinism in the Social Sciences and Humanities:
A Bibliography
The following sources are mostly in English and French, some in German and Italian. They were
compiled during the research project ‘Un/doing Albinism: Recodings of a Bodily Difference Through
Historically Shifting Frames’, itself a subproject of the DFG Research Unit 1939 ‘Un/doing Differences.
Practices in Human Differentiation’ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Feel free to circulate this bibliography.
Books, journal articles, and academic blog posts:
Allen, Kelly. 2011. ‘The Human Rights Case of Persons with Albinism in Uganda.’
Undergraduate Journal of Global Citizenship 1 (1): 1-39.
Alum, Alexander, Michael Gomez, and Edilsa Ruiz. 2009. Hocus Pocus, Witchcraft, and
Murder: The Plight of Tanzanian Albinos. Chicago: Northwestern University of Law.
Andree, Richard. 1889. Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche. Neue Folge. Mit 8
Abbildungen im Text und 9 Tafeln. Leipzig: Verlag Veit & Comp.
Aquaron R., M. Djatou, and L. Kamdem. 2009. ‘Aspects socioculturels des albinos en Afrique
Noire: des mutilations et crimes rituels perpétrés en Afrique de l’Est (Burundi et
Tanzanie).’ Médicine Tropicale 69 (5): 449-53.

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Ardigó, Marco, Giovanni Borroni, and Camilla Vassallo. 2000. ‘A case of oculocutaneous
albinism in a Florentine curiosity chamber (Wunderkammer): Between history and
ethnology.’ Dermatopathology: Practical & Conceptual 6 (2): 195-198.
Baker, Charlotte. 2007. ‘A constantly shifting identity: the problematic nature of the albino
body.’ In D. Janes (ed.): Bodies of Thought. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
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Baker, Charlotte. 2008. ‘Writing over the illness: the symbolic representation of albinism.’ In:
Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus (eds.): Social studies of health, illness and disease:
perspectives from the social sciences and humanities. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 115-128.
Baker, Charlotte. 2009. ‘A visible difference: images of black African people with albinism.’
In: Charlotte Baker (ed.): Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and
Image. Oxford: Peter Lang. 279-296.
Baker, Charlotte. 2009. ‘My Sole Reality, My Only Refuge, My Unique Prison: The Body of the
Black African Albino in Williams Sassine’s Mémoire d’une peau.’ In: L. Hernandez and
S. Krajewski (eds.): Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Taboo, Bodies and Identities.
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Baker, Charlotte. 2010. ‘For a minute, their sense of the ways of the world was ruptured.
Just by looking: The Black African Albino in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick
Grainville and Williams Sassine.’ In: J. Chamarette and J. Higgins (eds.): Guilt and
Shame: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture. Oxford: Peter Lang.
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Baker, Charlotte. 2010. ‘”Être albinos”: The Trope of Albinism in Williams Sassine’s
Wirriyamu and Mémoire d’une peau.’ International Journal of Francophone Studies
13 (1): 9-22.
Baker, Charlotte. 2011. Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Fictional
work of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine. (Modern French
Identities 96) Oxford: Peter Lang.
Baker, Charlotte. 2012. ‘Chromatic Ambivalence: Colouring the Albino’. In: Chris Horrocks
(ed.): Cultures of Colour: Visual, Material, Textual. New York: Berghahn Books. 143-
153.
Baker, Charlotte. 2012. ‘Réhabiliter l’humanité de “ceux qui voient la nuit”: Albinism in
Didier Destremau’s Nègre blanc.’ L’Esprit Createur 52 (2). 89-98.
Baker, Charlotte and Djatou, Médard. 2007. ‘Enduring negativity: literary and
anthropological perspectives on the black African albino.’ In: Charlotte Baker & Zoë
Norridge (eds.): Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies. Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 63-75.
Baker, Charlotte, and Patricia Lund. 2009. ‘A Visible Difference: Images of Black African
People with Albinism’. In: Charlotte Baker (ed.): Expressions of the Body:
Representations in African Text and Image. Bern: Peter Lang. 279-96.

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Baker, Charlotte, Patricia M. Lund, Richard Nyathi and Julie Taylor. 2010. ‘The Myths
Surrounding People with Albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe’. Journal of African
Cultural Studies 22 (2): 169-81.
Baker, Charlotte and Patricia Lund. 2017. ‘The Role of African Fiction in Educating about
Albinism and Human Rights: Jenny Robson’s Because Pula Means Rain (1998) and Ben
Hanson’s Takadini (1997).’ Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 11 (3):
271-284.
Benthien, Claudia. 1997. ‘“The Whiteness Underneath the Nigger”: Albinism and Blackness in
John Edgar Wideman’s Sent for You Yesterday’. Utah Foreign Language Review. 3–13.
Benthien, Claudia. 1998. Im Leibe wohnen. Literarische Imagologie und Historische
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Benthien, Claudia. 2002. Skin. On the Cultural Border between Self and the World.
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188.
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Blankenberg, Ngaire. 2000. ‘That Rare and Random Tribe: Albino Identity in South Africa’.
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from an African setting. Disability & Society 21 (6): 599-611.
Bradbury-Jones, Caroline, Peter Ogik, Jane Betts, Julie Taylor and Patricia Lund. 2018. ‘Beliefs
about people with albinism in Uganda: A qualitative study using the Common-Sense
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Brändle, Rea. 2007. Nayo Bruce: Geschichte einer afrikanischen Familie in Europa. Zürich:
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Brocco, Giorgio. 2015. ‘People with Albinism and Humanitarian NGOs in Tanzania: Identities
between Local and Global Worlds’. Medizinethnologie (blog). 7 June 2015. Available
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(Accessed 2018-11-12)

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Brocco, Giorgio. 2015. ‘Labeling Albinism: Language and Discourse Surrounding People with
Albinism in Tanzania’. Disability & Society 30 (8): 1143–57.
Brocco, Giorgio. 2016. ‘Singing Albinism in Global Tanzania: “Demanding” Inclusion through
Music’. Medizinethnologie (blog). 27 July 2016. Available online:
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Brocco, Giorgio. 2016. Albinism, stigma, subjectivity and global-local discourses in Tanzania.
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Brocco, Giorgio. 2017. ‘Living a “normal” life. Perceptions and practices of albinism in the
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Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, and Richard Sherrington. 2010. ‘Miners’
Magic: Artisanal Mining, the Albino Fetish and Murder in Tanzania’. The Journal of
Modern African Studies 48 (03): 353–82.
Burke, Jean. 2013. Media framing of violence against Tanzanians with albinism in the Great
Lakes region: a matter of culture, crime, poverty and human rights. The Australasian
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Burke, Jean. 2015. Colourism as an intra-racial phenomenon: The case of Tanzania. Open
Access Conference Paper. Available online: http://afsaap.org.au/assets/Burke-
Jean.pdf (Accessed 2018-09-10)
Burke, Jean, Theresa J. Kaijage, and Johannes John-Langba. 2014. ‘Media Analysis of Albino
Killings in Tanzania: A Social Work and Human Rights Perspective’. Ethics and Social
Welfare 8 (2): 117–34.
Butler-Jones, Cora. 2015. The Bones and Resilience of a Person with Albinism. The Impact of
Help-Seeking Behavior Among People With Albinism in Tanzania. Mustang: Tate
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Carnegie, Charles V. 1996. ‘The Dundus and the Nation’. Cultural Anthropology 11 (4): 470–
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Cimpric, Aleksandra. 2010. Children accused of witchcraft: An anthropological study of
contemporary practices in Africa. Dakar: UNICEF WCARO.
Clarke, Sam and Jon Beale. 2018. ‘Albinism and Social Marginalization.’ In: Jennifer Kromberg
and Prashiela Manga (eds.): Albinism in Africa. Historical, Geographic, Medical,
Genetic, and Psychosocial Aspects. London: Elsevier. 257-270.
Cruz-Inigo, Andres E., Barry Ladizinski and Aisha Sethi. 2011. ‘Albinism in Africa: Stigma,
Slaughter and Awareness Campaigns’. Dermatologic Clinics 29 (1): 79–87.
Curran, Andrew. 2009. Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French
Enlightenment Life Sciences. History and Theory 48 (3): 151–179.

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Dapi, Léonie N., Bertrand A. Tambe and Francisca Monebenimp. 2018. ‘Myths surrounding
albinism and struggles of persons with albinism to achieve human rights in Yaoundé,
Cameroon.’ Journal of Human Rights and Social Work 3 (1): 11-16.
Dart, Gareth, Tiroyaone Nkanotsang, Ose Chizwe and Lily Kowa. 2010. Albinism in Botswana
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Djatou, Médard. 2009. ‘The “Wrong” Colour? Representations and Perceptions of Albinism
among the Bamileke of Western Cameroon.’ In: Charlotte Baker (ed.): Expressions of
the Body: Representations in African Text and Image. Bern: Peter Lang. 121-136.
Dodounou, Tsevi. 2011. Le mythe de l’albinos dans les récits subsahariens francophones.
(Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 49). Münster: Lit.
Duri, Fidelis P. T. and Alice Makama. 2018. ‘Disabilities and human insecurities: women and
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Fayoyin, Adebayo and Noel Ihebuzor. 2014. Advocacy for Minorities in Africa: Issues and
Lessons in Advancing the Rights of Albinos in Tanzania and Osus in Nigeria. Asia
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Franklin, Anita, Patricia Lund, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, and Julie Taylor. 2018. ‘Children with
albinism in African regions: their rights to ‘being’ and ‘doing’.’ BCM International
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Ford, Jennifer Deanne, Arthur G. Richardson. 2010. An Investigation into the Knowledge Base
and Attitudes Toward Albinism among a Sample of Barbadian and Trinidadian
Nationals (Dissertation). Cave Hill, Barbados: The University of the West Indies.
Ford, Jennifer Deanne. 2013. Albinism in Two Islands of the Caribbean. Knowledge of and
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Gaigher, R.J., Patricia M. Lund and E. Makuya. 2002. ‘A Sociological Study of Children with
Albinism at a Special School in the Limpopo Province’. Curationis 25 (4): n.p.

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