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Publications in Academic Journals and Refereed List Services:

  • “Flora Nwapa and Oguta’s Lake Goddess: Artistic Liberty and Ethnography.” Dialectical Anthropology. Special Issue in Honor of Six Prominent Igbo Scholars. Vol. 30, 2007, triple issue 1-3 (in press).

  • “From "Haus Tambaran" to Church: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Papua New Guinean Design.” (With Georg Jell). Visual Anthropology, Vol. 18 (5), 2005.

  • “Editorial: Continuing the Quest of Dialectical Anthropology in the 21st Century: Reflections on the Igbo of Nigeria.” Dialectical Anthropology 28, (1), 2005: 71-90.

  • “Losing Ground: Place-Making, Alienation, and (Sub)-Urbanization in Rural Bavaria.” (With Georg Jell). Dialectical Anthropology 27, 2003: 69-87.

  • “Book Review: Jörg Fisch., 'Tödliche Rituale: Die indische Witwenverbrennung und andere Formen der Totenfolge.' (Deadly Rituals: The Burning of Widows in India and Other Forms of Funerary Rites Involving Followers in Death).” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol.36, 2001: 9-11.

  • “Civilization, Wilderness, and Secrecy: Making two Nigerian Films.” Visual Anthropology 13 (4) Special Issue on Africa, 2000: 363-393.

  • “Book Review: 'Michael C. Mbabuike, Poems of Memory Trips.'” Afrlitcine@h-net.msu.edu, 1999.

  • “Book Review: ‘African Experiences of Cinema’ edited by I. Bakari and M. Cham.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 34, 1999: 7-9.

  • “Book Review: ‘Nigerian Video Films’ edited by Jonathan Haynes.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Vol. 34, 1999: 15-17.

  • “Book Review: Paula Girshick Ben-Amos ‘The Art of Benin’ and ‘African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts’. Essays by Michael Kan and Roy Sieber, text by David W. Penney, Mary Nooter and Helen M.Shannon.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Vol. 34 (1), 1998: 622-626.

  • “Book Review: Virginia Castleman, ‘Mommi Watta, Spirit of the River’” for Afrlitcine@h-net.msu.edu , 1998.

  • “Payback, One-Talk, and Compensations. A Letter from Papua New Guinea.” Dialectical Anthropology, 1998.

  • “Book Review: Ingeborg Maria Grau. 'Die Igbo sprechenden Völker Südost Nigerias: Fragmentation und fundamentaleEinheit in ihrer Geschichte.“ The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 29 (3), 1996: 591-593.

  • “The Concept of Mammywater in Flora Nwapa's Novels.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 26 (2), 1995: 30-41.

  • “This Native Something: Understanding, Acknowledging, and Teaching the African Experience.” Dialectical Anthropology, vol.19, double issue # 2-3, 1994: 373-386.

  • “Who is it for? -- Pictures are special and so are the people in them: about filming 'Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria'."”Commission on Visual Anthropology Review,
    Spring 1991: 24-27.

  • “Film review essay on: 'Naked Spaces: Living is Round', by Trinh-T. Minh-ha and Jean Paul Bourdier.” Commission on Visual Anthropology Review. Fall 1990: 45-7.

  • “Names and Naming: Instances from the Oru-Igbo." Dialectical Anthropology 13, 1989: 199-207.

  • “Funding Anthropological Film and Video Productions: Practical Points, Funding Politics, Ethnocentrism and the Direction of Visual Communication: Where does Visual Anthropology Fit Into Existing Funding Structures?” Dialectical Anthropology 13, 1988: 283-289. Also in: Commission for Visual Anthropology Review, Fall Issue.

  • “A Murder Case: Igbo Conflict Settlement.” Dialectical Anthropology 12, 1988: 359-366.

  • “Ethnology and Fascism in Germany.” Dialectical Anthropology 9, 1985: 313-335.

  • “From Divine Earth to Mami Wata.” Anthropologia Visualis. Edited by Asen Balikci, Montreal, Canada. Vol.1, no.1, 1985: 53-59.