Andrew Apter
Andrew Herman Apter (born December 7, 1956) is an American historian, professor at University of California, Los Angeles,[1] and Director of the African Studies Center.[2]
He was field director of Black Atlantic Studies, for the Social Science Research Council.[3]
Awards
- 2010 Guggenheim Fellow [4]
Works
- Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa, University of Chicago Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-02352-6
- Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society, University of Chicago Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-226-02342-7
- The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria, University of Chicago Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-226-02355-7
- "Atinga Revisited", Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial Africa, Editors Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-226-11440-8
- "IBB = 419: Nigerian Democracy and the Politics of Illusion", Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives, Editors John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-226-11413-2
Further reading
Main article: List of important publications in anthropology
References
- ↑ http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=1337
- ↑ http://www.international.ucla.edu/person.asp?Facultystaff_ID=392
- ↑ http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/subcompetitions/dpdf-fellowship/EC520470-3904-DD11-BEF0-001CC477EC70/2955EA66-475C-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70/
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/16721-andrew-apter
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