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Andrew H. Apter

21 works· latest 2017· 4 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0009-0006-0097-2880

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Most cited in this library

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge1991 · 1,342 citations
The Pan-African Nation2005 · 403 citations
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria2006 · 225 citations
Herskovits's Heritage: Rethinking Syncretism in the African Diaspora1991 · 215 citations
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society.1994 · 151 citations

Works

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History in the Dungeon: Atlantic Slavery and the Spirit of Capitalism in Cape Coast Castle, Ghana

The American Historical Review·2017·1 author

29citations

Oduduwa's Chain

University of Chicago Press eBooks·2017·1 author·book

41citations

Beyond Négritude: Black cultural citizenship and the Arab question in FESTAC 77

Journal of African Cultural Studies·2015·1 author·Open access

37citations

Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within

Comparative Studies in Society and History·2013·1 author

30citations

M.G. Smith on the Isle of Lesbos: Kinship and Sexuality in Carriacou

New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids·2013·1 author·Open access

10citations

Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa

·2007·1 author

51citations

The Pan-African Nation

University of Chicago Press eBooks·2005·1 author·book

403citations

Griaule's Legacy: Rethinking "la parole claire" in Dogon Studies

Cahiers d études africaines·2005·1 author·Open access

30citations

On Imperial Spectacle: The Dialectics of Seeing in Colonial Nigeria

Comparative Studies in Society and History·2002·1 author

83citations

On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in Haitian Vodou

American Ethnologist·2002·1 author

44citations

Africa, Empire, and Anthropology: A Philological Exploration of Anthropology's Heart of Darkness

Annual Review of Anthropology·1999·1 author·review

51citations

Notes on Orisha Cults in the Ekiti Yoruba Highlands. A Tribute to Pierre Verger

Cahiers d études africaines·1995·1 author·Open access

39citations

Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society

African Economic History·1994·1 author

34citations

Herskovits's Heritage: Rethinking Syncretism in the African Diaspora

Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies·1991·1 author

215citations

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

Journal of Religion in Africa·1991·2 authors

1,342citations

The Historiography of Yoruba Myth and Ritual

History in Africa·1987·1 author

36citations