My recent 2016 journal article and forthcoming 2018 book manuscript illustrate my innovative use of oral and other ethnographic evidence alongside missionary sources to understand precolonial Nigeria. My 2016 book chapter published in an edited volume demonstrates my use of historical images and manumission records of African and African Diasporic pearl divers to understand the development of the African Diaspora in the Gulf region.
John Thabiti Willis
Carleton College
Publications
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Bridging the Archival - Ethnographic Divide Gender, Kinship, and Seniority in the Study of Yoruba Masquerade
Journal Article
History in Africa: A Journal of Method, Volume 44 (2016): 1-38
Publication year: 2016
A Visible Silence: Africans in the History of Pearl Diving in Dubai, UAE
Book Chapter
Museums in Arabia Transnational Practices and Regional Processes. Surrey, UK, Ashgate
Publication year: 2016
Negotiating Gender, Power, and Spaces in Masquerade Performances in Nigeria
Journal Article
Gender, Place, and Culture: A Feminist Geography Journal, 21, 3 (2014): 322-336
Publication year: 2014
Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town by Lorelle D. Semley (review)
Book Review
Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 83, 3 (2013): 529-530.
Publication year: 2013
Power and Gender in the History of Egungun
Book Chapter
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, ed. by Marla Berns, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Kasfir. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum, UCLA, 2011
Publication year: 2011