Dr David Pratten: List of publications

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Narrating history and anthropology J. D. Y. Peel’s ‘the Past in the Present’

Policing boundaries: the cultural work of African policing

Currency and conflict in colonial Nigeria

Creole pioneers in the Nigerian provincial press

Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa

Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa: an introduction

The precariousness of prebendalism

Retroversion, introversion, extraversion: three aspects of African anthropology

Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology

Bodies of power: narratives of selfhood and security in Nigeria

Masking youth: Transformation and transgression in Annang performance

The Politics of protection: Perspectives on vigilantism in Nigeria

‘The Thief Eats His Shame’: Practice and Power in Nigerian Vigilantism

Global Vigilantes

The man-leopard murders: History and society in Colonial Nigeria

Michel de Certeau: ethnography and the challenge of plurality

Introduction: Global vigilantes: perspectives on justice and violence

The 'rugged life': Youth and violence in Southern Nigeria

Mystics and missionaries: narratives of the spirit movement in Eastern Nigeria

Man-Leopard Murders : History and Society in Colonial Nigeria

Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice

The district clerk and the 'man-leopard murders': Mediating law and authority in colonial Nigeria

The politics of vigilance in southeastern Nigeria

Conversion, conquest and the Qua Iboe Mission

The politics of plunder: the rhetorics of order and disorder in Southern Nigeria

Return to the roots? Urban networks, rural development and power in Sudan

Local institutional development and relief in Ethiopia: A Kire-based seed distribution programme in north Wollo

Reconstructing community: the intermediary role of Sahelian associations in processes of migration and rural development

Bamako bound: the social organization of migration in Mali

'Return to the roots': Processes of legitimacy in Sudanese migrant associations