K Barber
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 7677 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K Barber |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | Barber |
| ASSINATURA | BARBER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9557-9654 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 697 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Linguistic Cohabitation and the Equivalences of Print
Print creates frames and slots in which equivalences between genres, texts and languages become visible or imaginable. The iterative and segmented character of newspapers, in particular, lends itself to the perception of equivalences. In 1920s Lagos, the public culture of the literate elites was bilingual, and it was in the weekly bilingual newspapers that the interface between Yoruba and English was most consciously signalled and creatively expl…
Peel, John (1941–2015)
John Peel was a British social anthropologist whose lifelong ethnographic and archival work on the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria achieved seamless integration of anthropology and history, and proposed a form of comparatism that gave culture, and especially religion, a central place. His first degree was in classics and he held a series of academic posts in sociology departments, before taking up a chair in anthropology and sociology at the Schoo…
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, …
Popular Poesis
Pleasure in language arises from the creativity of everyday life. Africa's historical and ethnographic record is full of striking examples of linguistic play. Three scenes of Yorùbá linguistic creativity illustrate this: praise poetry in a small town, a traveling popular theater, and early Yorùbá newspapers. Each yields distinctive pleasures, but central to all of these is the act of mutual recognition of forms of words and attunement to the ling…
Improvisation and the Art of Making Things Stick
The concepts of creativity and cultural improvisation invite us to focus on the growing points of social life: to ask how new ideas, genres, forms of social being come into existence. Improvisation and the art of making things stick cannot be separated: find them everywhere fused and intertwined. A preferred site in which to trace the movements of change and innovation, therefore, is art forms, where a greater degree of innovation and creativity …
Texto e Performance na África
Este artigo explora a interconexão entre texto e performance na África, argumentando que a dimensão performativa está intrinsecamente ligada à entextualização. A autora utiliza o conceito de "entextualização" da antropologia linguística americana para descrever o processo de destacar trechos de discurso falado, tornando-os repetíveis e transmissíveis. A poesia oral africana, com suas estratégias de objetivação do discurso, exemplifica como as pal…
A Conversation
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Africa, Empire and Fleet Street
West Africa was an institution in the life of generations of expatriate colonial servants and business people working in West Africa as well as a steadily growing and increasingly vocal African readership. Appearing weekly, in more or less the same format, for nearly a century, it captures the changing political, economic and social preoccupations of its times. This meticulously researched study focuses only on the first thirty years of its exist…
A History of African Popular Culture
Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and …
Yorùbá nílé àti ní ìlú òkèèrè
Inuu mi dun lati le kọ iwe kekere yii fun iwe atigbadegba Journal of African Cultural Studies, mo si dupee gidigidi loewoe awọn olotuu iwe naa fun ipe ti woen pe mi lati dawoe sii. Geegeebi
Yoruba at home and abroad
Interpreting Texts and Performances
The Black Megachurch
Despite the proliferation of research on black churches and the solutions they offer to social inequality, we know very little about one group: black megachurches. Meanwhile, we know even less about the extent to which religious traditions and theological orientations moderate megachurch differences in approaches to social inequality. Given the dramatic growth of black megachurches over the past three decades, a comprehensive understanding of bla…
Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics
What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the wa…
When People Cross Thresholds
This paper makes a very preliminary and provisional attempt to relate the discussion in Jane Guyer'sMarginal Gains(2004) of disjunction, thresholds, and multiple scales of value characteristic of economies in the Atlantic zone with the disjunction, profusion, and fragmentation characteristic of artistic genres of the region, especially praise poetry. It suggests that their underlying common property is an intense focus on the making and unmaking …
Africa's Hidden Histories
A private and personal look into the world of everyday Africans as they put pen to paper
Archive as work‐in‐progress
This paper describes an electronic archive being created to investigate the role of the media in the constitution of new religious publics in western Nigeria in the late 1990s. The aim of the project is to capture the arguments, silences and shared ground between Muslim, Christian and traditional constituencies as articulated in their media productions, and to represent these in a multimedia format in keeping with the subject matter. The electron…
African-Language Writing
African-Language Writing Karin Barber and Graham Furniss "How did this new genre come into being? Why did it assume this particular shape and form rather than another? When or at what point did it assume this new shape and what outside factors contributed to it? As it travelled along Zimbabwe's dusty roads, which roads were open to it and which were closed?" asks George Kahari at the opening of his magisterial study of the Shona novel (1). Africa…
Text and performance in Africa
If written texts usually involve some kind of performative dimension, oral performances also entail the constitution of a text. American linguistic anthropology uses the term 'entextualization' for the process by which stretches of spoken discourse are detached from their immediate context and rendered repeatable and thus transmissible. In African oral poetry there are entextualizing strategies which involve rendering discourse object-like: by ma…
The Generation of Plays
Introduction 2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public 3. The Actors 4. Getting a Show on the Road 5. The Generation of Plays 6. The Filling Out a Play 7. Audiences 8. Television, Film, and Video 9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics 10. Literacy, Enlightenment, and Tradition 11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making 12. Language and the Moral Public 13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example Appendix 1: Synopses Appendix 2: Yoruba …
Griots at War
Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande. Barbara G. Hoffman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 298 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Audiences and the book in Africa
The Generation of Plays
Africa's hidden histories
'Africa's Hidden Histories' takes a private and personal look into the world of everyday Africans, as they put pen to paper. As it explores the innovative, intense, and sociable interest in reading and writing, the text opens new avenues for understanding a rich and hidden history of Africa's creative expression.
Popular Arts in Africa
All the acts of the drama of world history were performed before a chorus of laughing people. Without hearing this chorus we cannot understand the drama as a whole. Mikhail Bakhtin In the last three or four years we have witnessed an upsurge of interest in African popular art forms so strong that it promises to become a movement. The individual researchers scattered over the continent, who for decades have been pursuing their interest in these ar…
A History of African Popular Culture
Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and …
How man makes God in West Africa
Opening ParagraphThe idea that gods are made by men, not men by gods, is a sociological truism. It belongs very obviously to a detached and critical tradition of thought incompatible with faith in those gods. But Yoruba traditional religion contains built into it a very similar notion, and here, far from indicating scepticism or decline of belief, it seems to be a central impulse to devotion. The òrìṣà ('gods') are, according to Yoruba traditiona…
Preliminary notes on audiences in Africa
There have been audiences, presumably, as long as there has been performance. The perception that what creates an audience is the listeners' intentional orientation towards the speaker is the starting point of a far-reaching development in performance and media studies which focuses on the activity and creativity of the audience. If the audience has an active role in constituting the performance, cultural historians seeking to uncover histories o…
Discourse and Its Disguises
Self-Assertion and Brokerage
The Generation of Plays
Introduction 2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public 3. The Actors 4. Getting a Show on the Road 5. The Generation of Plays 6. The Filling Out a Play 7. Audiences 8. Television, Film, and Video 9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics 10. Literacy, Enlightenment, and Tradition 11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making 12. Language and the Moral Public 13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example Appendix 1: Synopses Appendix 2: Yoruba …
Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts
1. Introduction: scope and terminology 2. Theoretical Perspectives 3. Some Prior Issues and Practicalities 4. Collecting, Recording and Creating Texts: preliminaries and mechanics 5. Observing and Analysing Performance 6. Production, Functions and Ideas 7. Genres and Boundaries 8. Analysing and Comparing Texts: style, structure and content 9. Texts in Process: translation, transcription and presentation 10. Ethics
Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira
During the last decade, the flow of oil revenue into Nigeria has expanded spectacularly, dwarfing other sectors of the economy. Its implications for development, for the growth of a commercial capitalism, and for the corresponding emergence of a more defined class structure are crucial issues about which much has been written. What we have heard less about, however, is how the ordinary people of Nigeria react to the floods of petro-naira which th…
Oríkì, women and the proliferation and merging ofòrìṣà
1. Two Faces of Yoruba ReligionThe proliferation and overlapping of spiritual beings is a feature of many religions. Saints in popular Catholicism and Vishnu'savatārasin Hinduism represent, in different ways, the possibility of spiritual beings that are simultaneously one and many, clusters or series of manifestations whose inner relationships are often not fully explained. Yorubaòrìṣàare in good company. However, the way in which multiple aspect…
Quotation in the Constitution of Yor b Oral Texts
ny genre of verbal art, or any single instance of a genre, can be understood in terms of the way it is constituted a s text. Research on oral verbal art usually proceeds by collecting a number of examples of a recognized, named genre (a particular kind of poem, song, dirg e , chant, tale) and then examining them for the "characteristic features" they s h a re. But the analysis should not stop there. We need to presume that textuality itself is cu…
When People Cross Thresholds
This paper makes a very preliminary and provisional attempt to relate the discussion in Jane Guyer'sMarginal Gains(2004) of disjunction, thresholds, and multiple scales of value characteristic of economies in the Atlantic zone with the disjunction, profusion, and fragmentation characteristic of artistic genres of the region, especially praise poetry. It suggests that their underlying common property is an intense focus on the making and unmaking …
Story, Performance and Event
Who Is the Populist? Response
A Conversation
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African-Language Writing
African-Language Writing Karin Barber and Graham Furniss "How did this new genre come into being? Why did it assume this particular shape and form rather than another? When or at what point did it assume this new shape and what outside factors contributed to it? As it travelled along Zimbabwe's dusty roads, which roads were open to it and which were closed?" asks George Kahari at the opening of his magisterial study of the Shona novel (1). Africa…
Cultural Reconstruction in the New South Africa
one wants to visit. A country that forged its culture in the hard mills of violent and relentless struggle is now decompressing in a rapid, uneven process of political liberalization and cultural reinvention, promoting transformations of outlook and behavior in which economics lags behind. This is a transition above all in identity and self-representation. New cultural developments, bubbling up all around in daily life, in turn demand a fresh sch…
Popular Poesis
Pleasure in language arises from the creativity of everyday life. Africa's historical and ethnographic record is full of striking examples of linguistic play. Three scenes of Yorùbá linguistic creativity illustrate this: praise poetry in a small town, a traveling popular theater, and early Yorùbá newspapers. Each yields distinctive pleasures, but central to all of these is the act of mutual recognition of forms of words and attunement to the ling…
Yoruba at home and abroad
Text and performance in Africa
If written texts usually involve some kind of performative dimension, oral performances also entail the constitution of a text. American linguistic anthropology uses the term 'entextualization' for the process by which stretches of spoken discourse are detached from their immediate context and rendered repeatable and thus transmissible. In African oral poetry there are entextualizing strategies which involve rendering discourse object-like: by ma…
I Could Speak Until Tomorrow
Readings in African Popular Culture
Biodun Jeyifo, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria. Lagos
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Ijeshas and Nigerians
Griots at War
Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande. Barbara G. Hoffman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 298 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index
How man makes God in West Africa
Opening ParagraphThe idea that gods are made by men, not men by gods, is a sociological truism. It belongs very obviously to a detached and critical tradition of thought incompatible with faith in those gods. But Yoruba traditional religion contains built into it a very similar notion, and here, far from indicating scepticism or decline of belief, it seems to be a central impulse to devotion. The òrìṣà ('gods') are, according to Yoruba traditiona…
Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira
During the last decade, the flow of oil revenue into Nigeria has expanded spectacularly, dwarfing other sectors of the economy. Its implications for development, for the growth of a commercial capitalism, and for the corresponding emergence of a more defined class structure are crucial issues about which much has been written. What we have heard less about, however, is how the ordinary people of Nigeria react to the floods of petro-naira which th…
Ijeshas and Nigerians
Who Is the Populist? Response
Literatures in African Languages
Journal Article Literatures in African Languages Get access Literatures in African Languages, edited by B. W. Andrzejewski, S. Pilaszewicz and W. Tyloch. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985. 672 pp. £35. ISBN 0 521 25646 1. KARIN BARBER KARIN BARBER Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 344, July 1987, Pages 432–43…
Popular Arts in Africa
All the acts of the drama of world history were performed before a chorus of laughing people. Without hearing this chorus we cannot understand the drama as a whole. Mikhail Bakhtin In the last three or four years we have witnessed an upsurge of interest in African popular art forms so strong that it promises to become a movement. The individual researchers scattered over the continent, who for decades have been pursuing their interest in these ar…
Biodun Jeyifo, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria. Lagos
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Ethnies, État et littérature populaire yorouba
Que pense l'homme de la rue ? Où trouver des données sur son opinion ? Le théâtre yorouba, qui est un véritable moyen de communication populaire, avec sa centaine de troupes, nous présente la réalité sociale de l'ouest du pays. Dans ces pièces, les autres Nigérians ne sont que peu présents et le débat politique et curieusement absent. L'étude des textes des spectacles et des romans populaires montre une vive conscience de la stratification social…
Story, Performance and Event
Africa's Ogun
Discourse and Its Disguises
Oríkì, women and the proliferation and merging ofòrìṣà
1. Two Faces of Yoruba ReligionThe proliferation and overlapping of spiritual beings is a feature of many religions. Saints in popular Catholicism and Vishnu'savatārasin Hinduism represent, in different ways, the possibility of spiritual beings that are simultaneously one and many, clusters or series of manifestations whose inner relationships are often not fully explained. Yorubaòrìṣàare in good company. However, the way in which multiple aspect…
I Could Speak Until Tomorrow
In Yoruba culture oriki , or oral praise poetry, is a major part of both traditional performance and daily life, and as such reflects social change and structure both past and present. Karin Barber studies the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria. She shows how women, the main performers of the oriki , interpret the poems and examines the links it gives them between living and dead, human and spiritual, and present and …
Discourse and Its Disguises
Discourse and Its Disguises
In Their Own Voices
Journal Article In Their Own Voices: African women writers talk Get access In Their Own Voices: African women writers talk, by Adeola James. James Currey, London, 1990. 154 pp. £7.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 507 5. Language and Theme: Essays on African literature, by Emmanuel N. Obiechina. Howard University Press, Washington, 1990. 249 pp. $26.95hardback, $14.95 paperback. 0 88258 122 8 and 0 88258 1236. Ideology and Form in African Poetry, by Emm…
Self-Assertion and Brokerage
I Could Speak until Tomorrow
I Could Speak Until Tomorrow
Kinship, Religion and Rituals in a Nigerian Community
Power and Performance
Learning from Fiction about Representing RealityJane Austen and the Fiction of Culture.Richard Handler , Daniel Segal
I Could Speak until Tomorrow
I Could Speak Until Tomorrow
I Could Speak until Tomorrow
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