Misty L Bastian

Biographic Data

ID76681
NAMEMisty L Bastian
GIVEN NAMESMisty L
FAMILY NAMEBastian
SIGNATUREBASTIAN M L
AFFILIATIONSFranklin & Marshall College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS300
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX8

  • Female "Alhajis" and Entrepreneurial Fashions

    Misty L BastianCHAPTERClothing and Difference2020

  • ‘‘Diabolic Realities’’

    Misty L BastianCHAPTERTransparency and Conspiracy2020

  • Moral Economies of Corruption

    Open AccessSteven Pierce, Kimberly W Hart et al.BOOKMoral Economies of Corruption2016References: 55

    all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…

  • What do Ghosts (and Ghost Hunters) Want

    Open AccessMisty L Bastian, Misty BastianARTICLEAnthropology News2016

  • The British Suppression of the Women’s War

    Open AccessMarc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.CHAPTERWomen's War Of 19292012

    Following the counting incident in Oloko on November 25 and the initial rising of local women there, the situation appeared to colonial officials to have returned to relative calm. Captain Hill left Oloko on November 29, feeling confident that he had resolved the problem. Quite to the contrary, however, the confrontation at Oloko only confirmed the women’s suspicions regarding the intentions of British officials and their African male representat…

  • Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds

    Open AccessMarc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.CHAPTERWomen's War Of 19292012

    The Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria have inhabited, for perhaps four thousand years, the territory situated between the Niger and Cross rivers of West Africa, just north and somewhat east of the Niger Delta. For centuries, it appears that they lived self-sufficiently although not in isolation, producing their own food, textiles, and iron goods, and importing only salt and fish from Delta traders and more luxurious items like copper a…

  • The British View

    Open AccessMarc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.CHAPTERWomen's War Of 19292012

    Igbo social, political, religious, and economic practices baffled Britons, who saw in the heterarchical nature of their institutions and systems a manifestation of chaos and disorder. Their first instinct was to contrast Igbo ways with those of northern Nigerians, using gendered language to articulate the differences and to express the shortcomings, as Britons saw them, of southeastern Nigeria. Inevitably, Igbo and other southeastern Nigerian peo…

  • The Ogu Umunwaanyi

    Open AccessMarc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.CHAPTERWomen's War Of 19292012

    In late 1929, a new movement involving tens of thousands of women swept through Owerri and Calabar provinces in southeastern Nigeria. The participants’ grievances stemmed in large part from local warrant chiefs’ abuses of power and women’s declining political and economic position since the advent of the British-imposed native administration. Far more than the Nwaobiala dancers in 1925, their actions targeted the infrastructure and the symbols—ev…

  • What the Women Wrought

    Open AccessMarc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.CHAPTERWomen's War Of 19292012

    In the wake of the Women’s War, British authorities in Nigeria faced the immediate problem of (re)pacifying the country and finding ways to prevent outbreaks of protests against them in the future. Women continued their demonstrations against British authority throughout 1930 even as patrols of police and soldiers took punitive action, imposed collective fines, seized property, and burned down whole villages, seeking through an extraordinary show…

  • The Women's War of 1929

    Open AccessMarc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.BOOKWomen's War Of 19292011Cited by: 9

    In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective

  • The Women's War of 1929

    Marc Matera, Misty L Bastian et al.BOOKWomen's War Of 19292011

    Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War 'More Deadly than the Male' What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography

  • Professor Ogbu Uke Kalu (June 2, 1942-January 7, 2009)

    Misty L Bastian, Misty BastianARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2009

  • Spirits and Letters

    Misty L Bastian, Misty BastianARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2009Cited by: 6

  • Global Shadows

    Open AccessMisty L BastianARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…2007

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  • “Diabolic Realities”

    Open AccessMisty L BastianCHAPTERTransparency and Conspiracy2003

  • Transparency and Conspiracy

    Laurel Kendall, Misty L Bastian et al.BOOKTransparency and Conspiracy2003Cited by: 133

    Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the “mutual veil dropping” of the post–Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet from the perspec…

  • Images and Empires

    Misty L Bastian, Paul S Landau et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2003Cited by: 20

  • Money Has No Smell

    Misty L Bastian, P StollerREVIEWThe International Journal of…2002

    In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In Money Has No Smell, Paul Stoller offers us a more complete portrait of the complex lives of West African immigrants like Diallo, a portrait based on years of research Stoller conducted on the streets of New York City during the 1990s. Blending fascinating …

  • Bearing Witness

    Misty L Bastian, Misty Bastian et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002

  • African Witchcraft and Otherness

    Misty L BastianARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2002

  • The Daughter she will Eat Agousie in the World of the Spirits' Witchcraft Confessions in Missionised Onitsha, Nigeria

    Open AccessMisty L BastianARTICLEAfrica2002Cited by: 2References: 29

    This article deals with witchcraft, missionisation, domestic slavery and social life on the emerging colonial 'frontier' of Onitsha, Nigeria, during the last years of the nineteenth century. The analysis centres on the confession of an accused witch and former domestic slave in the Waterside area of the town. It uses the document as a springboard for a larger discussion of the intersecting lives of Africans and Europeans in this marginal location…

  • The Demon Superstition

    Open AccessMisty L BastianARTICLEEthnology2001Cited by: 8

    The representation of Igbo peoples as practitioners of twin abomination is very much part of a historical process in which missionary and colonial interest in twin killing as a sign of African atavism played a significant role. This article explores historical record for information about twin abomination and twin murder, taking into account paradoxical nature of twinship not only for Igbo-speakers but for missionaries who wished to convert Igbo …

  • Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa

    Misty L Bastian, John Comaroff et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2001Cited by: 19

  • In Search of Sunjata

    Open AccessMisty L Bastian, Ralph A AustenARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2001Cited by: 1

  • Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism

    Open AccessMisty L Bastian, Ifi AmadiumeARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2001Cited by: 3