Publications

Meiu, George Paul. 2024. “On Hate, Its Objects, and the Poetics of Sexuality.” AnthroArt. [Online]

Meiu, George Paul. 2023. Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Meiu, George Paul. 2023. ” “Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex Economies.” In In the Meantime: Toward an Anthropology of the Possible edited by Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham, pp. 194-218. New York: Berghahn. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2022. “Queer Futures, National Utopias: Notes on Objects, Intimacy, Time, and the State.” African Futures, edited by Clemens Greiner, Steven Van Wolputte, and Michael Bollig, 320-330. Leiden: Brill. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2020. “Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya.” Cultural Anthropology, 35(4): 575-601. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2020. “Queerly Kenyan: On the Political Economy of Queer Possibilities.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(2): 613-617. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2020. “Panics over Plastics: A Matter of Belonging in Kenya.” American Anthropologist, no. 122(2): 222-235. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff. 2020. “Introduction: Ethnicity, Inc. Revisited.” Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation, edited by George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff, 1-35. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2020. “On Branding, Belonging, and the Violence of a Phallic Imaginary: Maasai Warriors in Kenyan Tourism.” Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation, edited by George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff, 35-66. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2019. “Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in Africa.” A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa, edited by R. Grinker, E. F. Gonçalves, C. B. Steiner, and S. Lubkemann, 147-172. Oxford: Wiley. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2017. Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Read the Introduction]

Meiu, George Paul. 2016. “Belonging in Ethno-erotic Economies: Adultery, Alterity, and Ritual in Postcolonial Kenya.” American Ethnologist 43 (2): 215-229. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2015. “Colonialism and Sexuality.” The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality (Volume 1), edited by Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, 239-242. Malden, Oxford: Wiley. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2015. “Beach-Boy Elders and Young Big-Men: Subverting the Temporalities of Ageing in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies.” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 80 (4): 472-496. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2011. “On Difference, Desire, and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected: ‘The White Masai’ in Kenyan Tourism.” Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism, edited by Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, 96-115. Oxford: Berghahn Books. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2009. “Mombasa Morans: Embodiment, Sexual Morality, and Samburu Men in Kenya.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 43 (1): 105-128.  [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2008. “Riefenstahl on Safari: Embodied Contemplation in East Africa.” Anthropology Today 24 (2): 18-22. [PDF]

Meiu, George Paul. 2004. Vin feciorii cu turca! Schimbări semiologice în obiceiurile cetei de feciori din Comăna. Brașov : Arania. [PDF]