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 Elizabeth Edwards FBA

Social and cultural histories of photographic practices; photography, anthropology and colonialism; history of museums, archives, collecting and cultural heritage; photographs in historiography, theory of history and historical method

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Professor Matthew Gandy FBA

Cultural, urban, and environmental geography, from the middle decades of the nineteenth century to the present, with particular interests in landscape, infrastructure, and bio-diversity

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Professor Harriet Bulkeley FBA

Environmental governance and politics: climate change, especially cities, business and finance; low carbon transitions; urban sustainability; the nature of governing contemporary society; environmental justice

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