My Contributions to Refereed Journals

2016 “Commentary: Reflections on 40 Years of Dialectical Anthropology, a Personal Journey.”
Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 40 (2): (forthcoming).

2016 “Crime, Community, and Human Rights in Southeast Nigeria, Then and Now.” Journal of West
African History, Vol. 2 (1): 115-160.

2013 “Freedom, Culture and Transformative Harmony: The Dialectical Dichotomy of Christianity and
Pre-Colonial Igbo Culture.” Gandhi Marg, Vol. 35 (1), April-June: 99-117.

2012a) “Book Review: The Female King of Colonial Nigeria, Ahebi Ugbabe by Nwando Achebe.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 45 (2): 305-310.

2012b) “The Trans-National Gold Course of Papua New Guinea” Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 36 (3): 317-341 (With Georg Jell).

2008 “Falling Spirits, Crumbling Culture, and the Dismantling of Human Rights: Instances of deteriorating ethics and codes of conduct in select novels by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, and Flora Nwapa.” Mbari: The International Journal of Igbo Studies 1 (2) 2008.

2007 “Book Review: ‘Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen.’ Edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 40 (3): 539-40.

2007a) “Flora Nwapa and Oguta’s Lake Goddess: Artistic Liberty and Ethnography.” Dialectical Anthropology. Special Triple Issue in Honor of Six Prominent Igbo Scholars. Vol. 31 (1-3): 253-262.

2007b) “Editorial,” with P. Chudi Uwazurike. Dialectical Anthropology. Special Triple Issue in Honor of Six Prominent Igbo Scholars. Vol. 31 (1-3): 7-9.

2007c) Prologue: Igbo Proverbs and Adages. Dialectical Anthropology. Special Triple Issue in Honor of Six Prominent Igbo Scholars. Vol. 31  (1-3): 5-6

2005 “From ‘Haus Tambaran’ to Church: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Papua New Guinean Design.” With Georg Jell. Visual Anthropology, Vol. 18 (5): 407-437.

2004 “Editorial: Continuing the Quest of Dialectical Anthropology in the 21st Century: Reflections on the Igbo of Nigeria.” Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 28 (1): 71-90.

2003 “Losing Ground: Place-Making, Alienation, and (Sub)-Urbanization in Rural Bavaria.” (With George Jell). Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 27 (1): 69-87.

2001 “Book Review: ‘Tödliche Rituale: Die indische Witwenverbrennung und andere Formen der Totenfolge.’ By Jörg Fisch. (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: 9-11.

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

1999a) “Book Review: ‘Michael C. Mbabuike, Poems of Memory Trips.’” www.Afrlitcine@h net.msu.edu

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

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

1998a) “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): 622-626.

1998b) “Book Review: Virginia Castleman, ‘Mommi Watta, Spirit of the River’” for H-AfrLitCine.

1997 “Payback, One-Talk, and Compensations. A Letter from Papua New Guinea.” Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 23 (1): 97-109.

1996 “Book Review: Ingeborg Maria Grau. ‘Die Igbo sprechenden Völker Südost Nigerias: Fragmentation und fundamentale Einheit in ihrer Geschichte.“ (PhD diss., University of Vienna.). The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Vol. 29 (3): 591-593.

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

1994 “This Native Something: Understanding, Acknowledging, and Teaching the African Experience.” Dialectical Anthropology, Vol.19 (2 & 3): 373-386.

1991 “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: 24-27.

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

1988a) “Names and Naming: Instances from the Oru Igbo.” Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 13 (2): 199 207.

1988b) “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 Vol. 13 (3): 283 289. Also in: Commission for Visual Anthropology Review, Fall Issue.

1987 “A Murder Case: Igbo Conflict Settlement.” Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 12: 359 366.

1985a) “Ethnology and Fascism in Germany.” Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 9: 313-335.

1985b) “From Divine Earth to Mami Wata.” Anthropologia Visualis. Edited by Asen Balikci, Montreal, Canada. Vol.1, (1): 53 59.