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Karin Barber

Author of Readings in African Popular Culture

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Works by Karin Barber

Readings in African Popular Culture (1997) 20 copies

The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics (2007) 19 copies

Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (African Expressive Cultures) (2006) 15 copies

West African Popular Theatre (1997) 9 copies

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater (2003) 6 copies

I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women and the Past in a Yoruba Town (International African Library) (1991) 5 copies

A history of African popular culture (2018) 3 copies

Self-assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa (Birmingham University African Studies S.) (1990) 2 copies

Yoruba Dun UN So: Book I A Beginners' Course in Yoruba (Yale Language Series) (1985) 2 copies

Discourse and Its Disguises: Interpretation of African Oral Texts (Birmingham University African Studies) (1989) 2 copies

Yoruba Wuyi: Book One 1 copy

How Man Makes God in West Africa: Yoruba Attitudes Towards the "Orisa" 1 copy

Africa: Journal of the International African Institue/ Revue de l'Institut Africain International 1 copy

Popular Arts in Africa 1 copy

Yoruba Popular Theatre: Three Plays by the Oyin Adejobi Company (African Historical Sources, #9) (1994) 1 copy

Associated Works

African Literature: an anthology of criticism and theory (2007) — Contributor — 24 copies

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Common Knowledge

Gender: female
Places of residence: Birmingham, England, UK
Education: Cambridge University (English)
University College London (Social Anthropology)
Obafemi Awolowo University (PhD)
Occupations: professor

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George Freedley Memorial Award

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater (Finalist – 2002)

Melvin J. Herskovits Award

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater (2001)

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Works: 15
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Rating: 3.9

ISBNs: 33

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