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Eugene L. Mendonsa new article content ... Eugene L. Mendonsa (born 1942) is an anthropologist most closely linked to the school of British social anthropology, although he holds a B.A. in anthropology and a M.A. in sociology from Brigham Young University. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. While teaching at BYU he was also head of the African Studies Program at the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and served as a board member on the Mali film project, Women's Studies Center. Dr. Mendonsa was born in Vallejo, California. His doctorate from the University of Cambridge in England was based on field research in Northern Ghana. After graduation he returned to Africa, doing further fieldwork in Ghana and teaching at Ahmadu Bello University in Northern Nigeria. Subsequently he taught at UCLA and the University of Colorado, as well as serving as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University.

In the 1980s and 1990s Dr. Mendonsa created and operated a consulting company that provided cross-cultural training to Fortune 500 companies and various international firms. In this endeavor he trained executives from the United States on doing business with people having a non-American culture, as well as teaching non-Americans how to interact with businesses based in the USA. In those decades he published over 50 articles on business negotiation and cross-cultural business, as well as writing 12 culture-specific workbooks, numerous multi-media presentations and he taught hundreds of seminars on international business methods. Dr. Mendonsa worked and lived in Brazil, Portugal, England, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Moçambique, Swaziland, India, Puerto Rico, Germany, Italy and the USA. In 2005 he retired from teaching and consulting and now lives and writes in Northern California.

Dr. Mendonsa has published many professional articles and the following academic books: The Politics of Divination: A Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala of Northern Ghana (1982); Continuity and Change in a West African Society: Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana (2001); West Africa: An Introduction to its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation (a college textbook, 2002); The Scripting of Domination in Medieval Catalonia: An Anthropological View (2008); The Fabrication of Political Domination: From the Paleolithic to the Present (2008); Literacy and the Culture of Domination in Medieval Catalonia (2008). Additionally, he published a how-to-paint book, Color and Beyond (co-authored with Ann Templeton, 2007). In 1998 Dr. Mendonsa filmed and directed the ethnographic film, Sisala Divination: The Mystic Tradition. He is also a writer of fiction, having published many stories, including the award-winning tale, Blood on the Tractor, which has been printed in Anthropology and Humanism 24:1:63-64. His two fiction books include Fishing for Clues: A Murder Mystery (2000) and a book of short stories called Portrait of a Dog as a Young Artist and Other Short Stories.



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