Brian Larkin

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor
Affiliation	Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York
Email	BLarkin@barnard.edu
Mailing Address	Department of Anthropology Barnard College Columbia University 411D Milbank Hall 3900 Broadway New York, New York 10027 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 212-854-5402
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria
Research Interests	Research focuses on media technologies and the way they shape secular and Muslim modernities in northern Nigeria
Publications	2015. "Binary Islam: media and religious movements in Nigeria." In: New media and religious transformations in Africa. Edited by Rosalind J. Hackett & Benjamin Soares. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2014. "Techniques of inattention: The mediality of loudspeakers in Nigeria," Anthropological quarterly. 87(4): 989-1015. 2008. Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press. 2004. "Degraded images, distorted sounds: Nigerian video and the infrastructure of piracy." Public Culture. 16(4). 2003. "Itineraries of Indian cinema. African videos, Bollywood and global media." In: Multiculturalism, postcolonialism and transnational media. Edited by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam. pp. 170-192. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2002. "Indian films and Nigerian lovers: media and the creation of parallel modernities." In: The anthropology of globalization: a reader. Edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. Oxford: Blackwell Books. 2002. "Materializing culture: cinema and the creation of social space." In: Media worlds: anthropology on new terrain. Edited by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 319-336. 2002. "Bandiri music, globalization and urban experience in Nigeria." In: Cahiers d'études africaines 168 XLII-4 pp.739-762.
Keywords	media technology ; modernity ; Islam ; secularism ; Northern Nigeria