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.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2003
Subjects
Anthropology

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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Professor Anne Haour FBA

Archaeology and heritage of Africa and the Indian Ocean; archaeology, material culture, anthropological notions of value and identity, medieval empires and trade

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Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

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