Professor Karin Barber FBA

I am an anthropologist with a particular interest in popular culture, religion, and the verbal arts, both oral and written. Most of my research has been in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria, and I am currently working on early Yoruba print culture.

Elected 2003

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2003
Sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/dasa/barber-karin.aspx

Current post

Professor Emerita of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham

Past appointments

University of Birmingham Professor Emerita of African Cultural Anthropology

2017 -

University of Birmingham Professor of African Cultural Anthropology

1999 -

University of Birmingham Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham

1999 - 2017

University of Birmingham Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham

1999 - 2017

University of Birmingham Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader

1985 - 1999

Unknown Unknown Lecturer, University of Ife, Nigeria

1977 - 1984

Publications

Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B.Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and other texts 2012

I could speak until tomorrow: Oriki, Woman and the Past in a Yoruba Town 1991

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theatre 2000

Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self 2006

The anthropology of texts, persons and publics: oral and written culture in Africa and beyond 2007

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Professor Karin Barber FBA

Current post

Professor Emerita of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham

Past appointments

University of Birmingham Professor Emerita of African Cultural Anthropology

2017 -

University of Birmingham Professor of African Cultural Anthropology

1999 -

University of Birmingham Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham

1999 - 2017

University of Birmingham Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham

1999 - 2017

University of Birmingham Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader

1985 - 1999

Unknown Unknown Lecturer, University of Ife, Nigeria

1977 - 1984

Publications

Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B.Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and other texts 2012

I could speak until tomorrow: Oriki, Woman and the Past in a Yoruba Town 1991

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theatre 2000

Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self 2006

The anthropology of texts, persons and publics: oral and written culture in Africa and beyond 2007