Karin Barber

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Karin Barber is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, University College London, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Birmingham, University of Nevada, Reno

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According to Wikipedia, Dame Karin Judith Barber, is a British cultural anthropologist and academic, who specialises in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria. From 1999 to 2017, she was Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Before joining the Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham, she was a lecturer at the University of Ife in Nigeria. Since 2018, she has been Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

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Karin Barber's Published Works

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Popular Arts in Africa (1987) (381)
How man makes God in West Africa: Yoruba attitudes towards the Orisa (1981) (200)
Readings in African popular culture (1998) (167)
Preliminary notes on audiences in Africa (1997) (136)
Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus (1997) (134)
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics (2007) (127)
Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition (1985) (108)
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater (2000) (91)
I Could Speak until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women and the past in a Yoruba Town (1992) (88)
Discourse and its disguises : the interpretation of African oral texts (1991) (71)
Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira (1982) (66)
African-language Literature and Postcolonial Criticism (1999) (62)
Text and performance in Africa (2003) (60)
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas's 'life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (2012) (59)
Africa's hidden histories : everyday literacy and making the self (2006) (50)
A History of African Popular Culture (2018) (43)
Self-assertion and brokerage : early cultural nationalism in West Africa (1992) (37)
Quotation in the Constitution of Yoruba Oral Texts (1999) (35)
West African Popular Theatre (1998) (34)
Oríkì, women and the proliferation and merging of òrìṣà (1990) (33)
Yoruba oriki and deconstructive criticism (1984) (30)
Audiences and the book in Africa (2001) (25)
African-Language Writing (2006) (23)
Authorship, copyright and quotation in oral and print spheres in early colonial Yorubaland (2016) (22)
African Histories of Textuality (2006) (20)
When People Cross Thresholds (2007) (19)
Cultural Reconstruction in the New South Africa (2001) (18)
Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa (2009) (17)
In Their Own Voices: African women writers talk (1992) (17)
BARNES, Sandra T., ed. Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-30282-X (1990) (14)
Who Is the Populist? Response (1987) (9)
Multiple discourses in Yoruba oral literature (1991) (8)
Time, Space, and Writing in Three Colonial Yoruba Novels (1997) (7)
Improvisation and the Art of Making Things Stick (2021) (5)
A Conversation: Revisiting Publics and Counterpublics (2020) (4)
Yorùbá popular theatre : three plays by the Oyin Adéjọbí Company (1994) (4)
An archive of Yorùbá religious ephemera (2002) (4)
Audiences and publics (2007) (4)
Experiments with genre in Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s (2016) (3)
Animation in Environmental Journalism: Effects on News Perception and Information Seeking (2021) (3)
TEXT AND TEXTUALITY IN ORAL PERFORMANCE (2007) (3)
Yoruba at home and abroad (2013) (3)
Documenting Social and Ideological Change Through Yoruba Oriki: A Stylistic Analysis (1981) (2)
Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History. LEROY VAIL and LANDEG WHITE (1994) (2)
Remarks on silence and alterity (1994) (2)
African Popular Music (1994) (1)
Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts (1991) (1)
When People Play People: Development communication through theatre (1995) (1)
The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature: Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama (2000) (1)
ON AUDIENCES IN AFRICA (2008) (1)
Interpreting texts and performances (2012) (1)
‘Biodun Jeyifo, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria. Lagos: Nigeria Magazine Publications, 1984, xi + 213 pp. (1988) (1)
Oladejo Okediji on His Writing Life (2006) (1)
Yoruba Language and Literature (2014) (1)
CULTURE, DECOLONIZATION AND AFRICAN MODERNITY The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994. Edited by OKWUI ENWEZOR. Munich: Prestel, 2001. Pp. 496. £45; $75 (ISBN 3-7913-2502-7). (2003) (1)
Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890-1970s (1986) (1)
Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande:Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande. (2002) (1)
Ifà: An Exposition of Ifá Literary Corpus . By 'Wande Abimbola. Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. ix, 256, ill., bibl. £6.75 (1980) (1)
Bibliographical Survey of Sources for Early Yoruba Language and Literature Studies, 1820-1970 (review) (2004) (1)
Ifa Divination Corpus (2019) (1)
Kinship, Religion and Rituals in a Nigerian Community: A Phenomenological Study of Ondo Yoruba Festivals. (1992) (1)
Jeff Opland, Xhosa Oral Poetry: aspects of a black South African tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, 303 pp., £25.00/$49.50. (1986) (0)
Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
The constitution of oral texts (2007) (0)
BOOK REVIEW:F. Adetowun Ogunsheye. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF SOURCES FOR EARLY YORUBA LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES, 1820-1970. Ibadan: U of Ibadan P, 2001. (2004) (0)
AFR volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
Yorùbá dùn ún sọ : a beginners' course in Yoruba (1984) (0)
West African Popular Theatre@@@Readings in African Popular Culture (1999) (0)
Other Books Received for Review (1987) (0)
Isidore Okpewho, Myth in Africa: a study of its aesthetic and cultural relevance . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 305 pp., £20.00, 0 521 24554 0. (1986) (0)
Reviews of Books (1989) (0)
Reviews of Books (1989) (0)
Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and "West Africa" Magazine by Jonathan Derrick (review) (2018) (0)
AFR volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
Learning from Fiction about Representing Reality (1992) (0)
Roundtable: The 'popular' and African popular culture (2013) (0)
Culture and the Nigerian Novel . By Oladele Taiwo. London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. xvi, 235, bibl. £4.95 (hard); £2.45 (paperback). (1978) (0)
Literatures in African Languages (1987) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Reviews of Books (1985) (0)
Experiments with text: Fagunwa and his precursors, E.A.Akintan and I.B.Thomas (2017) (0)
AFR volume 67 issue 3 Front matter (1997) (0)
Come to Laugh: African traditional theatre in Ghana by Kwabena N. Bame New York, Lilian Barber Press, 1985. Pp. 190.Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa by Robert Mshengu Kavanagh London, Zed Books, 1985. Pp. xv+237. £16.95. £6.50. paperback. (1987) (0)
POPULAR INTELLECTUALS IN POSTCOLONIAL TANZANIA (2018) (0)
Popular Poesis: Language and the Pleasures of Everyday Creation (2022) (0)
New Approaches to African History (2018) (0)
Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire. Johannes Fabian. (1992) (0)
Creative writing in african languages (2006) (0)
The Crowd, the State ... and Songs (2018) (0)
AFR volume 93 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2023) (0)
Twenty-six years after August Klingenheben's Die Sprache der Ful this new Fula grammar in German is welcome. Commemorating the centennial of that most eminent German Scholar in the field of Fula studies (2010) (0)
In Praise of History; History as Praise (2018) (0)
Speaking out: dissent and creativity in the colonial era and beyond (2015) (0)
AFR volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2018) (0)
Response (1987) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Archive as work‐in‐progress (2006) (0)
Text and personhood (2007) (0)
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture (2022) (0)
Experiments with text: Fagunwa and his precursors (2017) (0)
Self-Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa (1994) (0)
Introduction: Popular Culture and the City (2010) (0)
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Anthropology and text (2007) (0)
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Preface and acknowledgements (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
AFR volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2019) (0)
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Genre, society and history (2007) (0)
AFR volume 67 issue 1 Front matter (1997) (0)
Jackson, Michael. How lifeworlds work: emotionality, sociality and the ambiguity of being. xvi, 241 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2017. £19.00 (paper) (2019) (0)
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Notes (2007) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
AFR volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2021) (0)
Early Popular Culture: Sources and Silences (2018) (0)
The Media: Globalisation and Deregulation from the 1990s Till Today (2018) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Conceptualising Change in African Popular Culture (2018) (0)
Announcements (1963) (0)
The City and the Road (2018) (0)
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Textual fields and popular creativity (2007) (0)
Contents (2003) (0)
Mines, Migrant Labour and Township Culture (2018) (0)

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