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John C. McCall
Associate Professor

Ph.D. 1992, Indiana University

Office: 3543 Faner Hall

Email: jmccall@siu.edu

Phone: (618) 453-5010
Fax: (618) 453-5037

Research Interests

Courses

Areas and Specialties

African Film and Video
African Popular Culture
African Music, Dance & Art
Nigeria, Igbo
Ethnography

Current Research Projects

Since 2000, I've doing research on the Nigerian video movie industry - or "Nollywood."

I write ethnography of media production and consumption in Nigeria and in Africa in general.

I am particularly intrigued by the new commercial digital media that allows Africans to produce and distribute indigenous media without foreign funding or the infrastructures of transnational media corporations.

I am currently in the final stages of writing a book: The Nollywood Effect: How Nigeria's Informal Movie Industry is Reinventing Africa

Research for this this recent project was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and SIUC's Office of Research Development and Administration.

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Fall Semester 2009

ANTH 310A
Peoples and Cultures of Africa
(Also: ANTH 470A & BAS 310A)

ANTH 500E
History of Anthropology
(Require Graduate Core Course)

The websites linked above are secured.
Access is limited to registered students, and
appropriate University administrators and staff.

Coming Spring Semester 2010

UHON 351
Africa in African Cinema

Research Websites
	G. I. Jones Archive Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
	Other Africas Exhibit University Museum SIUC
	Ohafia d'ike n'agha An ethnographic tribute to Ndi Ohafia.

Selected publications

2007. "The Pan-Africanism We Have: Nollywood's Invention of Africa." Special Edition of Film International (FilmInt.). Onookome Okome (ed.). Issue 28, 5(4): 92-97. (pdf)
2006. "Nollywood Shows the Way." The Africa Report. (Published by Jeune Afrique) No. 3. July 3: 120-124.
2005. "Nollywood Confidential: the unlikely rise of Nigerian video film." Fader. 26:116-132. (Reprint)
2004. "Juju and Justice at the Movies: Vigilantes in Nigerian Popular Videos." African Studies Review. 47(3): 51-67. (full text online) (pdf)
2004. "Nollywood Confidential: the unlikely rise of Nigerian video film." Transition Magazine. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. 95: 98-109. (pdf)
2004. "Igbo Shamanism." In Encyclopedia of Shamanism, Mariko N. Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridmann (eds.). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 925-928.
2002. "Madness, Money, and Movies: Watching Nigerian Popular Videos with a Native Doctor's Guidance." Africa Today. 49(3): 78-94. (pdf)
2001 "Introduction." In Trading States of the Oil Rivers. By G. I. Jones. Murray Last (series Ed.) Classics in African Anthropology Series. Hamburg: LIT with the International African Institute. xi-xix.
2000. Dancing Histories: Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
1999. "Structure, Agency and the Locus of the Social: Why Post-Structural Theory is Good for Archaeology." In Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, John Robb (ed.), Center for Archaeological Investigations, SIUC. Occasional Paper No. 26: 16-20.
1998. "The Representation of African Music in Early Writings." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music,Vol. I: Africa. Ruth Stone (ed.), New York: Garland Publishing. 74-99.
1996. "Portrait of a Brave Woman." American Anthropologist. 98(1): 127-136. (pdf)
1996. "Motopark Beggars." Anthropology and Humanism. 21(1): 92-95. (pdf)
1996. "Discovery as a Research Strategy." Anthropology Newsletter. 37(2): 44 & 42.
1995. "Rethinking Ancestors in Africa." Africa. (Journal of the International African Institute.) 65(2): 256-270. (pdf)
1995. "African Social Organization." In Africa, 3rd ed. Martin, Phyllis and Patrick O'Meara (eds.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 175-189.
1993. "Making Peace with Agwu." Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly. 18(2): 56-66.
1993. "Dancing the Past: Experiencing Historical Knowledge in Ohafia, Nigeria. "Passages: A Chronicle of the Humanities (Northwestern University). 6: 8-9. (full text online)
1993. "Early Accounts of the Drum in Africa." In Drums: The Heartbeat of Africa. E.A. Dagan (ed.), Montreal: Galerie Amrad African Arts (44-47.)

Dancing Histories

Heuristic Ethnography
with the Ohafia Igbo.

2000
University of Michigan Press.
Ann Arbor.


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