Brian Larkin (Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted: Tues, February 23, 2010


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

phone:   212-854-5402
e-mail:  bl190@columbia.edu -or- BLarkin@barnard.edu

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


Selected publications:

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.