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Authored Books

Fardon, Richard (2022) Mumuye Art: from tribe to style. Milan: Prearo Editore.

Adler, Jeremy and Fardon, Richard (2021) Franz Baermann Stainer: a stranger in the world. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. (Methodology and History in Anthropology)

Chappel, Tim, Fardon, Richard and Piepel, Klaus (2021) Surviving Works: context in Verre arts. ISCA, University of Oxford: Vestiges: traces of record.

Fardon, Richard and la Rouge, Senga (2017) Learning from the Curse: Sembene's Xala. London: Hurst and Co.

Fardon, Richard (2014) Tiger in an African Palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation. Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG.

Berns, Marla C., Fardon, Richard and Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield (2011) Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Fardon, Richard (2007) Fusions: Masquerades and Thought-Style East of the Niger-Benue Confluence, West Africa. London: Saffron Press. (Saffron Afriscopes Series)

Fardon, Richard (2006) Lela in Bali: History through Ceremony in Cameroon. Oxford: Berghahn.

Fardon, Richard and Stelzig, Christine (2005) Column to volume: formal innovation in Chamba statuary. London: Saffron Books. (Saffron Afriscopes: illustrated arguments about African culture)

Fardon, Richard (1999) Contrast and comparison : notes from a middle-belt West African practice. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.

Fardon, Richard (1999) Mary Douglas: an Intellectual Biography. London; New York: Routledge.

Fardon, Richard (1990) Between God, the dead and the wild: Chamba interpretations of religion and ritual. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute. (International African library, 8)

Fardon, Richard (1988) Raiders and refugees: trends in Chamba political development, 1750-1950. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. (Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry, 11)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Fardon, Richard, ed. (2013) Mary Douglas. A very personal method: anthropological writings drawn from life. London: Sage.

Fardon, Richard, ed. (2013) Mary Douglas. Cultures and criss: understanding risk and resolution. London: Sage.

Berns, Marla C. and Fardon, Richard, eds. (2012) Nigeria: arts de la vallee de la Benoue. Paris: Musee du Quai Branly.

Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris and Wilson, Richard A., eds. (2012) Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: Sage.

Alder, Jeremy, Fardon, Richard and Tully, Carol, eds. (2003) From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated - essays and translations. Munich: Ludicium; London: London Institute of Germanic Studies.

Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham, eds. (2000) African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition. Oxford: James Currey.

Fardon, Richard and Adler, Jeremy, eds. (1999) Franz Baermann Steiner: Selected Writings. Vol. 1, Taboo, truth and religion. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.

Fardon, Richard and Adler, Jeremy, eds. (1999) Franz Baermann Steiner: Selected Writings. Vol. 2, Orientpolitik, Value and Civilisation. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.

Fardon, Richard, van Binsbergen, Wim and van Dijk, Rijk, eds. (1999) Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond : based on an EIDOS conference held at The Hague, 13-16 March 1997. Leiden: EIDOS in association with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre of African Studies London.

Fardon, Richard, ed. (1995) Counterworks: managing the diversity of knowledge. London; New York: Routledge.

Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham, eds. (1994) African Languages, Development and the State. London: Routledge.

Fardon, Richard and Baxter, P.T.W., eds. (1991) Voice, genre, text: anthropological essays in Africa and beyond. Manchester: John Rylands University Library. (Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 73(3))

Fardon, Richard, ed. (1990) Localizing strategies : regional traditions of ethnographic writing. Edinburgh ; Washington: Scottish Academic Press ; Smithsonian Institution Press.

Fardon, Richard, ed. (1985) Power and knowledge: anthropological and sociological approaches. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.

Book Chapters

Fardon, Richard (2016) 'Purity as danger: “Purity and Danger revisited” at fifty.' In: Duschinsky, Robbie, Schnall, Simone and Weiss, Daniel H., (eds.), Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 23-33.

Fardon, Richard (2014) 'Franz Baermann Steiner as contemporary anthropologist: an anachronistic suggestion.' In: Adler, Jeremy and Dane, Gesa, (eds.), Literatur und Anthropologie. H.G. Adler, Elias Canetti und Franz Baermann Steiner in London. Goettingen: Wallstein, pp. 197-210.

Cornwall, Andrea (2012) 'Transforming Bodies: The Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference.' In: Fardon, Richard, (ed.), The SAGE handbook of social anthropology. Los Angeles: SAGE/Association of Social Anthropologists, pp. 378-387.

Marsden, Magnus (2012) 'Southwest and Central Asia: Comparisson, Integration or Beyond?' In: Fardon, Richard, (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. Sage.

Marchand, Trevor H.J. (2012) ''Anthropologies to Come'. Part 4 introduction.' In: Fardon, Richard, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Chris, (eds.), Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: Sage, pp. 225-228.

Marchand, Trevor H.J. (2012) 'Knowledge in Hand: explorations of brain, hand and tool.' In: Fardon, Richard, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Chris, (eds.), Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: Sage, pp. 260-269.

Klein, Jakob A., Pottier, Johan and West, Harry G. (2012) 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Food.' In: Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Richard A., (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 293-302.

Simpson, Edward (2012) 'The anthropology of aftermath.' In: Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Richard A., (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology (vol. 2). London: Sage, pp. 329-338.

Fardon, Richard (2008) 'Cosmopolitan nations, national cosmopolitans.' In: Werbner, Pnina, (ed.), Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: rooted, feminist and vernacular perspectives. Oxford: Berg, pp. 233-259. (Association of Social Anthropologists monographs series; 45)

Fardon, Richard (2005) 'Tiger in an African Palace.' In: James, W. and Mills, David Shane, (eds.), The Qualities of Time: Anthropological Approaches. Oxford: Berg, pp. 73-93. (Association of Social Anthropologists monographs series; 41)

Fardon, Richard (2004) 'Turner, Victor Witter (1920–1983).' In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, Brian, (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard (2000) 'African broadcast cultures.' In: Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard, (eds.), African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition. Oxford: James Currey, pp. 1-20.

Fardon, Richard and Boyd, Raymond (2000) 'Sauvé par un chanson: patriarchie et experience dans les versions Tchamba de <<La Fille Difficile>>.' In: Seydou, Christiane and Görög, Veronika, (eds.), La fille difficile: un conte-type africain. Paris: CNRS.

Fardon, Richard (1999) 'Consumption and identification: the question of public goods.' In: Fardon, Richard, van Binsbergen, Wim and van Dijk, Rijk, (eds.), Modernity on a Shoestring: Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond. Leiden: EIDOS in association with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre of African Studies London, pp. 401-416.

Fardon, Richard (1999) 'Ethnic pervasion.' In: Allen, Tim and Seaton, Jean, (eds.), The Media in Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence. London: Zed, pp. 64-80.

Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard (1994) 'Frontiers and boundaries - African languages as political environment.' In: Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham, (eds.), African Languages, Development and the State. London: Routledge, pp. 1-32.

Fardon, Richard (1993) 'Alliance et ethnicité: un système regional de l’Adamawa.' In: Héritier-Augé, Françoise and Copet-Rougier, Elisabeth, (eds.), Les Complexités de l’Alliance, Volume III Economie, politique et fondements symboliques (Afrique). Paris: Editions des Archives contemporaines, pp. 165-210.

Fardon, Richard (1992) 'Post modern anthropology? Or, an anthropology of post-modernity.' In: Doherty, J., Graham, E. and Malek, M., (eds.), Post-modernism and the Social Sciences. London: Macmillan, pp. 33-47.

Fardon, Richard and Davies, Catherine (1991) 'African fictions in representations of West African and Afro-Cuban culture.' In: Fardon, Richard and Baxter, P.T.W., (eds.), Voice, Genre, Text - Anthropological Essays in Africa and Beyond. Manchester: John Rylands University Library, pp. 125-145. (Special Issue of the Bulletin of the John Ryland’s University Library of Manchester, 73 (3))

Furniss, Graham (1991) 'Burlesque in Hausa: 'And my text for today is food' said Mr Matches.' In: Baxter, P.T.W. and Fardon, Richard, (eds.), Voice, Genre, Text: Anthropological Essays in Africa and Beyond. Manchester: John Rylands University Library of Manchester, pp. 37-62.

Hobart, Mark (1990) 'Who do you think you are? the authorized Balinese.' In: Fardon, Richard, (ed.), Localizing strategies: regional traditions of ethnographic writing. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, pp. 303-338.

Fardon, Richard (1987) 'African Ethnogenesis: limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena.' In: Holy, Ladislav, (ed.), Comparative Anthropology. London: Blackwell, pp. 168-188.

Journal Article

Fardon, Richard and Kuba, Richard (2021) 'Adding Colour to Und Afrika Sprach: Carl Arriens’ Image and Leo Frobenius’ Text.' Bérose: Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie. pp. 1-37.

Fardon, Richard and Furniss, Graham (2021) 'The histories of an enlightened ruler: Malam Muhamman Bitemya Sambo, Garbosa II of Donga, Central Nigeria.' Vestiges: Traces of Record, 7 (2). pp. 28-61.

Fardon, Richard (2020) 'Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture – style and ethnicity.' Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire, 10.

Fardon, Richard (2018) 'Immortality yet? Or, the permanence of Mary Douglas.' Anthropology Today, 34 (4). pp. 23-26.

Fardon, Richard and Sarró, Ramon eds. (2017) 'T'he Iconoclastic Impulse in Yoruba Culture [J.D.Y. Peel].' Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 8 (1). pp. 30-41.

Fardon, Richard (2015) ''Do you hear me? It is me Akiga' Akiga’s 'Story' and Akiga Sai’s 'History’.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 85 (4). pp. 572-598.

Boyd, Raymond and Fardon, Richard (2014) 'Naming powers: Hausa tsafi and Tiv tsav.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26 (1). pp. 33-55.

Fardon, Richard (2013) 'Citations out of place: or, Lord Palmerston goes viral in the nineteenth century but gets lost in the twentieth.' Anthropology Today, 29 (1). pp. 25-27.

Fardon, Richard (2011) 'Feigning the market: funding anthropology in England.' Anthropology Today, 27 (1). pp. 2-5.

Berns, Marla C. and Fardon, Richard (2011) 'Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley.' African Arts, 44 (3). pp. 16-37.

Fardon, Richard (2010) 'Margaret Mary Douglas 1921-2007.' Proceedings of the British Academy, 166. pp. 133-158.

Fardon, Richard and Iyenda, Guillaume (2007) 'Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) with bibliographic supplement.' Anthropology Today, 23 (5). pp. 25-27.

Fardon, Richard (1996) '<< Destins croisés >> : histoires des identités ethniques et nationales en Afrique de l’Ouest.' Politique Africaine, 61. pp. 75-97.

Fardon, Richard and Boyd, Raymond (1992) 'Bisiweeri: the songs and times of a Muslim Chamba woman.' African Languages and Cultures, 5 (1). pp. 11-41.

Fardon, Richard (1990) 'Malinowski's Precedent: The Imagination of Equality.' Man, New Series, 25 (4). pp. 569-587.

Fardon, Richard (1985) 'Sisters, wives, wards and daughters: a transformational analysis of the political organization of the Tiv and their neighbours. Part II: The transformations.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 55 (1). pp. 77-91.

Fardon, Richard (1984) 'Sisters, wives, wards and daughters: a transformational account of the political organisation of the Tiv and their neighbours, Part One: 'The Tiv'.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 54 (4). pp. 2-21.

Book Reviews

Fardon, Richard (2008) 'Fabian as investigative style.' African Studies Review, 51 (3). pp. 165-168.

Translations

Furniss, Graham and Fardon, Richard, trans. (2021) History and Customs of the Chamba M. S. Garbosa II (Gara Donga). Vestiges: Traces of Record, 7 (2). ISCA University of Oxford: Vestiges: Traces of Record. pp. 62-159.

Other

Fardon, Richard (2017) 'Peel, John David Yeadon, 1941-2015.' Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XVI . London: British Academy. pp. 191-216.

Fardon, Richard and Onyejiako, Joy (2017) 'From an African Score: artists, events and exhibitions in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS 1995-2015.' London: SOAS.

Fardon, Richard (2016) 'Preface to the 2000 Frazer Lecture, “Time and difference in the anthropology of religion” by J. D. Y. Peel.' HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6 (1). pp. 531-532.

Fardon, Richard, ed. (2016) 'Letters from Liberia [J.D.Y. Peel].' London: International African Institute; Centre of African Studies, SOAS.