John C Mccall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 663190 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John C Mccall |
| NOMBRES | John C |
| APELLIDO | Mccall |
| FIRMA | MCCALL J C |
| AFILIACIONES | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
West African Cinema
Motion picture technology developed at the dawn of the 20th century, just as the formal colonization of Africa was launched at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. While it took a few decades for cinema houses to spread in West Africa, by mid-century the colonial administrations began to use film as a means for conveying colonial culture to African subjects. For the British and French colonials, film was a means to shape public opinion. Both Briti…
The capital gap
This article examines Nollywood as a creative industry based in Africa's informal sector. By definition, the informal sector produces no financial records, so no quantitative economic data are presented. This research utilizes ethnographic methods and anthropological analysis to highlight the importance of the video movie industry to Nigerian people, its place in their economic life and its integral role in their culture. Nollywood's intimacy wit…
The pan-Africanism we have
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Juju and Justice at the Movies
This article examines the rise of vigilantism in southeastern Nigeria. Two opposing discourses on Nigerian vigilantism are examined. The first is characterized by the valorization of vigilantes as heroes in popular Nigerian video movies. The second is represented by a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report denouncing die vigilantes as criminals. My research utilizes ethnographic research to contextualize the video movies as a means toward underst…
Madness, Money, and Movies
The emergence of a popular video movie industry in Nigeria reveals a need for critical reevaluation of the field of African cinema. Video movies are now viewed in the homes of millions of Africans who never had access to, or perhaps even interest in, the celluloid film productions of African cinematographers. Produced by self-trained artists, these movies fall outside current paradigms of academic film criticism. This paper examines one such movi…
The Generation of Plays
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater. Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 485 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Dancing Histories
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Dancing Histories
Being Changed
Being Changed: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience. DAVID E. YOUNG and JEAN-GUY GOULET, eds. Ontario, Canada; Broadview Press, 1994. 378 pp., tables, notes, references, index
The Anthropology of Landscape
The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspecives on piace and Space. Eric Hirch and Michael O'Hanlon, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1995 xii + 268 pp. figures, maps, refernces index
Discovery as a Research Strategy
Portrait of a Brave Woman
Rethinking ancestors in Africa
Analyses of ancestor-related practices were a crucial component of structural-functional models of social organisations in Africa. In the 1970s the theories of lineage and segmentary social organisation upon which these studies depended were called into question. Ethnographic and historical research indicated a preponderance of migratory activities and a high degree of discontinuity and reorganisation in kin relations. As a result most anthropolo…
Living with Africa. JAN Vansina
M aking P eace with A gwu
It is generally accepted that ethnographic fieldwork can and should challenge researchers' assumptions about the world. However, anthropologists generally avoid the fundamental ontological issues raised by their experiences in the field. This article is an account of my initiation into a guild of traditional healers in the Ohafia region of Igbo‐speaking Nigeria. The ceremony was instigated by an ancestral spirit and, indirectly, by a spirit entit…
Nollywood Confidential
When the oil boom went bust, so did the rest of Nigeria’s economy—it seemed as if the country’s once-flourishing cinema culture would be among the casualties. Filmmakers couldn’t afford to buy film stock from abroad; bankrupt theaters shut down for good. But thanks to a revolution in consumer electronics, West Africa’s answer to Hollywood (and Bombay) is bigger than ever. These days, Nigerians are going straight-to-video. Their movies sport sensa…
Rethinking ancestors in Africa
Analyses of ancestor-related practices were a crucial component of structural-functional models of social organisations in Africa. In the 1970s the theories of lineage and segmentary social organisation upon which these studies depended were called into question. Ethnographic and historical research indicated a preponderance of migratory activities and a high degree of discontinuity and reorganisation in kin relations. As a result most anthropolo…
Juju and Justice at the Movies
This article examines the rise of vigilantism in southeastern Nigeria. Two opposing discourses on Nigerian vigilantism are examined. The first is characterized by the valorization of vigilantes as heroes in popular Nigerian video movies. The second is represented by a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report denouncing die vigilantes as criminals. My research utilizes ethnographic research to contextualize the video movies as a means toward underst…
The Anthropology of Landscape
The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspecives on piace and Space. Eric Hirch and Michael O'Hanlon, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1995 xii + 268 pp. figures, maps, refernces index
Madness, Money, and Movies
The emergence of a popular video movie industry in Nigeria reveals a need for critical reevaluation of the field of African cinema. Video movies are now viewed in the homes of millions of Africans who never had access to, or perhaps even interest in, the celluloid film productions of African cinematographers. Produced by self-trained artists, these movies fall outside current paradigms of academic film criticism. This paper examines one such movi…
The capital gap
This article examines Nollywood as a creative industry based in Africa's informal sector. By definition, the informal sector produces no financial records, so no quantitative economic data are presented. This research utilizes ethnographic methods and anthropological analysis to highlight the importance of the video movie industry to Nigerian people, its place in their economic life and its integral role in their culture. Nollywood's intimacy wit…
Portrait of a Brave Woman
The Generation of Plays
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater. Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 485 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Dancing Histories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
M aking P eace with A gwu
It is generally accepted that ethnographic fieldwork can and should challenge researchers' assumptions about the world. However, anthropologists generally avoid the fundamental ontological issues raised by their experiences in the field. This article is an account of my initiation into a guild of traditional healers in the Ohafia region of Igbo‐speaking Nigeria. The ceremony was instigated by an ancestral spirit and, indirectly, by a spirit entit…
Rethinking ancestors in Africa
Analyses of ancestor-related practices were a crucial component of structural-functional models of social organisations in Africa. In the 1970s the theories of lineage and segmentary social organisation upon which these studies depended were called into question. Ethnographic and historical research indicated a preponderance of migratory activities and a high degree of discontinuity and reorganisation in kin relations. As a result most anthropolo…
Living with Africa. JAN Vansina
Discovery as a Research Strategy
Portrait of a Brave Woman
The Anthropology of Landscape
The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspecives on piace and Space. Eric Hirch and Michael O'Hanlon, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1995 xii + 268 pp. figures, maps, refernces index
Being Changed
Being Changed: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience. DAVID E. YOUNG and JEAN-GUY GOULET, eds. Ontario, Canada; Broadview Press, 1994. 378 pp., tables, notes, references, index
Dancing Histories
Dancing Histories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Madness, Money, and Movies
The emergence of a popular video movie industry in Nigeria reveals a need for critical reevaluation of the field of African cinema. Video movies are now viewed in the homes of millions of Africans who never had access to, or perhaps even interest in, the celluloid film productions of African cinematographers. Produced by self-trained artists, these movies fall outside current paradigms of academic film criticism. This paper examines one such movi…
The Generation of Plays
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater. Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 485 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Juju and Justice at the Movies
This article examines the rise of vigilantism in southeastern Nigeria. Two opposing discourses on Nigerian vigilantism are examined. The first is characterized by the valorization of vigilantes as heroes in popular Nigerian video movies. The second is represented by a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report denouncing die vigilantes as criminals. My research utilizes ethnographic research to contextualize the video movies as a means toward underst…
The pan-Africanism we have
Preview this article: The pan-Africanism we have: Nollywood's invention of Africa, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/5/4/s10-1.gif
The capital gap
This article examines Nollywood as a creative industry based in Africa's informal sector. By definition, the informal sector produces no financial records, so no quantitative economic data are presented. This research utilizes ethnographic methods and anthropological analysis to highlight the importance of the video movie industry to Nigerian people, its place in their economic life and its integral role in their culture. Nollywood's intimacy wit…
West African Cinema
Motion picture technology developed at the dawn of the 20th century, just as the formal colonization of Africa was launched at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. While it took a few decades for cinema houses to spread in West Africa, by mid-century the colonial administrations began to use film as a means for conveying colonial culture to African subjects. For the British and French colonials, film was a means to shape public opinion. Both Briti…
Nollywood Confidential
When the oil boom went bust, so did the rest of Nigeria’s economy—it seemed as if the country’s once-flourishing cinema culture would be among the casualties. Filmmakers couldn’t afford to buy film stock from abroad; bankrupt theaters shut down for good. But thanks to a revolution in consumer electronics, West Africa’s answer to Hollywood (and Bombay) is bigger than ever. These days, Nigerians are going straight-to-video. Their movies sport sensa…
Sociology (15 obras) · Anthropology (10 obras) · History (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Ethnography (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · African history and culture studies (6 obras) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Law (5 obras)