Dr David Pratten

Books

2007

David Pratten
Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Justice and Violence, 2007, Hurst: London.
David Pratten
The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria, 2007, Edinburgh University Press & Indiana University Press for the International African Institute.

Book chapters

2010

David Pratten
‘Bodies of power: narratives of selfhood and security in Nigeria’, In Thomas G. Kirsch and Tilo Grätz (eds) Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa, Oxford: James Curry, 2010, pp. 118-138.

2007

David Pratten
‘The 'rugged life': Youth and violence in Southern Nigeria’, In L. Bethleham P. Ahluwalia and R. Ginio Violence and Non-violence in Africa, Routledge: London, 2007, pp. 84-104.
David Pratten
‘Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice’, In D. Pratten and A. Sen Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Justice and Violence, Hurst: London, 2007, pp. 175-205.

2006

David Pratten
‘The District Clerk and the ‘Man-Leopard Murders’: mediating law and authority in colonial Nigeria’, In B.N. Lawrance Richard Roberts and E.L. Osborn Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, pp. 220-247.

2005

David Pratten
‘Conversion, Conquest and the Qua Iboe Mission’, In T. Falola Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel,, Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina, 2005, pp. 413-40.

1995

David Pratten and Suliman Ali Baldo
‘Return to the Roots: Processes of Legitimacy in Sudanese Migrant Associations’, In David Hulme Michael Edwards Non-Governmental Organisations - Performance and Accountability: Beyond the Magic Bullet,, Earthscan: London, 1995, pp. 119-129.

Articles

2008

David Pratten
‘Masking Youth: Transformation and Transgression in Annang Performance’, African Arts 41 (1), 2008, pp. 44-60.
David Pratten
‘The thief eats his shame: practice and power in Nigerian vigilantism’, Africa 78 (1), 2008.

2007

David Pratten
Mystics and Missionaries: Narratives of the Spirit Movement in Eastern Nigeria, Social Anthropology 15 (1), 2007, pp. 47-70.

2006

David Pratten
The Politics of Vigilance in south-eastern Nigeria, Development and Change 37 (1), 2006, pp. 707-734.

1997

David Pratten

1996

David Pratten
‘Reconstructing Community: The Intermediary Role of Sahelian Associations in Processes of Migration and Rural Development’, African Rural and Urban Notes 3 (1), 1996, pp. 49-77.

Reports

2000

David Pratten

1997

David Pratten
Bamako Bound: The Social Organization of Migration in Mali, 1997, SOS Sahel International UK: London.