l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York

BLarkin@barnard.edu

Department of Anthropology
Barnard College
Columbia University
411D Milbank Hall
3900 Broadway
New York, New York 10027 USA

phone: 212-854-5402

Nigeria

Research focuses on media technologies and the way they shape secular and
Muslim modernities in northern Nigeria

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.

media technology ; modernity ; Islam ; secularism ; Northern Nigeria