Misty L. Bastian (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

Submitted: Thurs, 21 August 2003


Misty L. Bastian
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 USA

phone:   717-358-4479
fax:     717-358-4500
E-mail:  misty.bastian@fandm.edu


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



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.