Brian Larkin

Biographic Data

ID100944
NAMEBrian Larkin
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMELarkin
SIGNATURELARKIN B
AFFILIATIONSBarnard College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS2115
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX8

  • Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video And The Infrastructure Of Piracy

    Brian LarkinCHAPTERAnthropology of the Arts2024

    In Kano, the economic center of northern Nigeria, media piracy is part of the “organizational architecture” of globalization ( Sassen 2002 ), providing the infrastructure that allows media goods to circulate. Infrastructures organize the construction of buildings, the training of personnel, the building of railway lines, and the elaboration of juridicolegal frameworks without which the movement of goods and people cannot occur. But once in place,…

  • Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain

    Open AccessBrian LarkinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2022

    Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 292; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 33. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvi + 322 pp. €138. - Volume 75 Issue 1

  • Timothy Matovina. Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Era of Conquest to Pope Francis

    Open AccessBrian Larkin, Brian R LarkinARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    Journal Article Timothy Matovina. Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Era of Conquest to Pope Francis. Get access Timothy Matovina. Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Era of Conquest to Pope Francis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 221. Cloth $31.95. Brian R Larkin Brian R Larkin College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…

  • The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

    Brian LarkinARTICLEEthnohistory2022

    Almost three hundred mission church-monastery complexes were built in central Mexico from the fall of the Aztec Empire in 1521 to 1600. What did this extensive construction campaign signify? Early historians viewed it as a sign of mendicant zeal: Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians expanding into ever more Indigenous communities and gaining converts along the way. Revisionists rejected this narrative’s triumphalism and instead argued for co…

  • Right Sizing Flint’s Infrastructure in the Wake of the Flint Water Crisis Would Constitute an Additional Environmental Injustice

    Richard C Sadler, Debra Furr-Holden et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Planning…2021

    Right sizing has become an essential talking point in discussing next steps for postindustrial and shrinking cities as they struggle to maintain outdated, outsized infrastructure. Yet the literature has been clear that balancing economic and social objectives must be a key part of the discussion, especially given that historical patterns of disinvestment have disproportionately affected socioeconomically disadvantaged and racial/ethnic minority p…

  • Neglected Transportation Infrastructure: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Russian State in a Small Siberian Oil Town

    Open AccessGertrude Saxinger, Наталья Евгеньевна Красноштанова et al.ARTICLESibirica2021References: 19

    Verkhnemarkovo, a small Siberian town located on an oil field in Russia’s Irkutsk region, is plagued by bad roads and limited mobility. This article explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the wellbeing of individuals and communities, with a focus on transport and mobility infrastructure. Some oil companies, such as Irkutsk Oil Company, are tied to the sustainability standards of international financial institutions.…

  • Políticas e Poéticas da Infraestrutura

    Open AccessBrian LarkinARTICLERevista AntHropológicas2021Cited by: 1

    Infraestruturas são formas materiais que permitem trocas por meio do espaço. Elas são redes físicas através das quais mercadorias, ideias, lixo, energia, pessoas e capitais financeiros circulam. Neste artigo, mapeio a literatura antropológica que busca teorizar a infraestrutura a partir da biopolítica, dos estudos de ciência e tecnologia e das teorias de tecnopolítica. Também examino outros aspectos das infraestruturas que proporcionam diferentes…

  • The Cinematic Milieu

    Brian LarkinARTICLEPublic Culture2021Cited by: 1References: 49

    To what extent are media technologies autonomous forces that reorganize the environment around them to accommodate their own technological needs? In what ways are these technologies responsive to the milieu they grow within? A central theme of comparative media examines how media enter into reciprocal exchange with the broader cultural, social, and economic formations in which they emerge and which differ from place to place and over time. This a…

  • Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico

    Brian LarkinARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2020

    Why did Mayas of the Yucatán readily venerate Marian images soon after Spanish evangelization? Amara Solari uses the case of Our Lady of Itzmal, a miraculous Marian statue introduced into the Mayan town of Itzmal by Diego de Landa in 1558 that eventually gained significant indigenous and Spanish devotion, to broach that broader question.Solari views two common explanations for indigenous adoption of Catholic imagery as inadequate. Scholars have e…

  • The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria

    Brian LarkinCHAPTERMedia Worlds2019

  • The Grounds of Circulation: Rethinking African Film and Media

    Brian LarkinARTICLEPolitique africaine2019References: 5

    La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l'analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…

  • Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure

    Open AccessBrian LarkinCHAPTERPromise of Infrastructure2018

  • Special Themes in Volume 47

    Brian Larkin, Andre Beteille et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2018References: 39

    Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More

  • Three / The Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization

    Brian LarkinCHAPTERAfrican Futures2017

  • The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America

    Open AccessVirginia Garrard‐burnett, David Tavárez et al.BOOKCambridge History of Religions in…2016

    The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process of religious change which the region is undergoing; and third, for the region's religious distinctiveness in global comparative terms, which contribu…

  • Entangled Religions: Response to J. D. Y. Peel

    Open AccessBrian LarkinARTICLEAfrica2016Cited by: 6References: 12

    When Meyer and I (Larkin and Meyer 2006) wrote our article on the shared similarities between Islam and Christianity, it was intended to interrupt what seemed to us then, and still seems to me now, the tendency for studies of Christian movements to be written as if Muslims did not exist in the same polity and vice versa. Difference has been the normative grounds upon which the scholarly literature on religion in Africa has been based, usually org…

  • Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy

    Open AccessBrian LarkinOTHERA Reader on International Media…2015

    In Kano, the economic center of northern Nigeria, media piracy is part of the “organizational architecture” of globalization (Sassen 2002), providing the infrastructure that allows media goods to circulate. Infrastructures organize the construction of buildings, the training of personnel, the building of railway lines, and the elaboration of juridicolegal frameworks without which the movement of goods and people cannot occur. But once in place, i…

  • Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy

    Open AccessBrian LarkinCHAPTERReader on International Media…2015

  • Mark Z. Christensen. Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan

    Brian LarkinARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    The question of indigenous conversion to Catholicism has been a staple in colonial Latin American historiography since the early twentieth century. Reacting against earlier works that largely focused on the activities of missionaries, over the past thirty years historians have addressed the question of conversion from the indigenous perspective. In the case of colonial Mexico, scholars have employed a relative abundance of native-language sources…

  • Techniques of Inattention: The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria

    Brian LarkinARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2014Cited by: 56References: 14

    This article examines the religious use of loudspeakers on churches and mosques in Jos, Nigeria. It examines the medial form of the loudspeaker, how this medium technologizes urban space, and how urban residents generate cultural techniques to live with the sounds it produces. More precisely, I focus on how loudspeakers seek to compel attention by disbursing religious messages and how, in a city riven by religious conflict, residents cultivate pr…

  • Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema

    Open AccessBrian LarkinCHAPTEREmpires of Vision2013

  • The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure

    Brian LarkinARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2013Cited by: 1485References: 86

    Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological literature that seeks to theorize infrastructure by drawing on biopolitics, science and technology studies, and theories of technopolitics. I also examine other dimensions of infrastructures that re…

  • Building Colonial Cities of God: Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain

    Open AccessBrian Larkin, Brian R LarkinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2012

    Karen Melvin. Building Colonial Cities of God: Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xv + 366 pp. $65. ISBN: 978–0–8047–7486–4. - Volume 65 Issue 4

  • AHR Conversation: Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information

    P Edwards, Paul N Edwards et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2011Cited by: 12References: 2

  • A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749 - 1857

    Brian LarkinARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2011

    Matthew D. O’Hara cogently analyzes the intersection of popular Catholicism, Indian identity, community formation, and local politics in Mexico City and its environs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His work bridges many historiographical divides: urban and rural, colonial and early republican, religious and political. Because of this historiographical breadth and O’Hara’s thoughtful arguments and clear prose, this monograph will appea…