l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor and Chair

Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

misty.bastian@fandm.edu

Department of Anthropology
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 USA

phone: 717-358-4479
fax: 717-358-4500

http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/bastian.html

Nigeria

My dissertation work (U. of Chicago, 1992) was on gender, cosmological
construction and the popular cultures of a large market complex in
Onitsha, Nigeria. Since that time I have written and published widely on
Nigerian religious practice, popular culture and gender. I did a short
project on Nigerian immigrants in the United States, particularly in their
virtual personas as members of the Naijanet internet community. I also did
historical work on gender, youth, missionization and resistance among
Igbo-speaking peoples from the 1870s to 1930. Currently I am looking at
the potent combination of Nigerian militarism and neo-Pentecostal
Christianity and about to start a longer term project on charismatic
Catholics and Marian apparitions in the southeastern part of the country

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religion ; popular culture ; Nigerian immigrants.