Andrew Apter

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Andrew Apter

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#7896

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew Herman Apter is an American historian, professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the African Studies Center. He was field director of Black Atlantic Studies, for the Social Science Research Council.

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Andrew Apter's Published Works

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Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society (1994) (133)
Herskovits's Heritage: Rethinking Syncretism in the African Diaspora (2011) (109)
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (2005) (94)
Santeria from Africa to the new world: the dead sell memories (1997) (49)
On Imperial Spectacle: The Dialectics of Seeing in Colonial Nigeria (2002) (42)
On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in Haitian Vodou (2002) (34)
Africa, Empire, and Anthropology: A Philological Exploration of Anthropology's Heart of Darkness (1999) (33)
Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa (2007) (24)
The Pan-African Nation: Oil-Money and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (1996) (21)
Things Fell Apart? Yoruba Responses to the 1983 Elections in Ondo State, Nigeria (1987) (20)
In Dispraise of the King: Rituals 'Against' Rebellion in South-East Africa (1983) (20)
Griaule's Legacy: Rethinking “la parole claire” in Dogon Studies (2005) (19)
"Que Faire?" Reconsidering Inventions of Africa (1992) (15)
Matrilineal motives: kinship, witchcraft, and repatriation among Congolese refugees (2012) (14)
The Historiography of Yoruba Myth and Ritual (1987) (14)
Discourse and its disclosures: Yoruba women and the sanctity of abuse (1998) (14)
Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within (2013) (12)
Notes on Orisha Cults in the Ekiti Yoruba Highlands. A Tribute to Pierre Verger (1995) (10)
THE BLOOD OF MOTHERS: WOMEN, MONEY, AND MARKETS IN YORUBA-ATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE (2013) (10)
Beyond Négritude: Black cultural citizenship and the Arab question in FESTAC 77 (2016) (9)
The Embodiment of Paradox: Yoruba Kingship and Female Power (1991) (8)
Consistency in Recalling Features of Former Head Injuries: Retrospective Questionnaire vs. Interview Retest (1992) (8)
History in the Dungeon: Atlantic Slavery and the Spirit of Capitalism in Cape Coast Castle, Ghana (2017) (8)
In Praise of High Office: The Politics of Panegyric Among Three Southern Bantu Tribes (1983) (7)
Death and the King's Henchmen (2005) (6)
Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic (2017) (5)
Ethnographic X-files and Holbraad’s double-bind (2017) (5)
National Language Planning in Plural Societies: The Search for a Framework (1982) (4)
A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria (review) (2007) (4)
The Politics of Illusion (2005) (3)
7. The Subvention of Tradition: A Genealogy of the Nigerian Durbar (2018) (2)
The problem of Who: Multiple personality, personal identity and the double brain (1991) (2)
M.G. Smith on the Isle of Lesbos: Kinship and sexuality in Carriacou (2013) (1)
Producing the People (2005) (1)
MUDIMBE, V. Y., The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1988, 241 pp., 0 253 33126 9 (1991) (1)
Tarrying with Our Negatives (And Positives) (2003) (1)
Ralph, Michael. Forensics of capital. 189 pp., fig., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2015. £19.00 (paper) (2018) (0)
A Genealogy of the Durbar (2005) (0)
Depersonalization, the experience of prosthesis, and our cosmic insignificance: The experimental phenomenology of an altered state (1992) (0)
5. Triplet Repeats (1999) (0)
The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. by Kate Ramsey (2012) (0)
The Spectacle of Culture (2019) (0)
Queer Crossings: Kinship, Marriage, and Sexuality in Igboland and Carriacou (2017) (0)
AFTERWORD. Beyond the Mirror of Narcissus (2019) (0)
Beyond words (2007) (0)
Nigeria at Large (2005) (0)
John Thabiti Willis. Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. xiii + 198 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-03146-4. (2018) (0)
Festac 77: A Black World’s Fair (2021) (0)
In This Issue… (2011) (0)
Birth of a Priestess (1991) (0)
Reading the Africa Exhibit (2009) (0)
ACKNOWL EDGMENTS (2018) (0)
War Canoes and Their Magic (2005) (0)
The Mirror of Cultural Production (2005) (0)
How to Wage “Warre” and Influence People (2012) (0)
Herskovits’s Heritage: Rethinking Syncretism in the African Diaspora (1991) (0)
Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town by John Thabiti Willis (review) (2018) (0)
Rebirth of a Nation (2005) (0)
Frobenius unbound (2023) (0)
Ralph, Laurence. Renegade dreams: living through injury in gangland Chicago. xxii, 250 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2014. £15.00 (paper) (2019) (0)
The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa. PATRICK R. Mc‐NAUGHTON (1990) (0)
Decolonizing African Studies (2018) (0)

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Andrew Apter is affiliated with the following schools:

Yale University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago