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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Ma Thomas Publisher Comments Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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About Blady: A Pattern Out of Time by Lauren Van Der Post Publisher Comments Sir Laurens, whose life has encompassed African expeditions and years as a Japanese POW, recalls events-some joyful, some tragic-and in so doing provides the framework for an exploration into the human spirit.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul by Ian Player Publisher Comments An engaging personal account of one environmentalist's remarkable friendship with a Zulu chief.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Harmless People by Elizabeth M Thomas Publisher Comments A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert by Rupert Isaacson Publisher Comments Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Contraversions #13: The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia by Hagar Salamon Publisher Comments A fascinating ethnography of the Ethiopian Jews living in Israel and their memory of life among the majority Ethiopian Christians.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gender, Performance & Identity: Understanding Swahili Cultural Identity Through Songs by Mwenda Ntarangwi Publisher Comments Understanding Swahili cultural realities through song.... (read more) Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language and Colonial Power by Johannes Fabian Publisher Comments Among the preconditions for establishing colonial authority was communication with the colonised. Verbal exchanges depended on a shared communicative praxis providing common ground on which unilateral claims could be imposed. Use of, and control over... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $20.35 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan (New Directions in Anthropological Writing) by Janice Boddy Synopsis Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village in northern Sudan, Wombs and Alien Spirits explores the zâr cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African exodus :the origins of modern humanity by Christophe Stringer Publisher Comments Once in a Generation a book such as African Exodus emerges to transform the way we see ourselves. This landmark book, which argues that our genes betray the secret of a single racial stock shared by all of modern humanity, has set off one of the most... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement by Rogaia Mu Abusharaf Publisher Comments Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields by Miriam Goheen Publisher Comments Women's labor - producing both crops and children - has long been the linchpin of male status and power throughout Africa. This book lucidly interprets the intricate relations of gender to state-building in Africa by looking historically at control over... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Among the Ibos of Nigeria (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers) by G T Basden Publisher Comments Among the Ibos of Nigeria is the work of the British missionary George Basden. He lived with the Ibos for many years, recording the complexities of their culture at all stages in life, from childhood to the intricate rituals surrounding death, for his... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature by Peter Seitel Publisher Comments The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $115.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments In this scrupulously researched biography, Roy Richard Grinker charts the rise and fall of one of anthropology's most colorful and controversial figures, Colin Turnbull. From Turnbull's Scottish family and privileged education to his travels in Africa... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Language of the Land: Living Among the Hadzabe in Africa by James Stephenson Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-two, James Stephenson arranged to spend a year living among the Hadzabe, the last hunters and gatherers still living a traditional life in Africa. He wanted to live their life, hunting what they hunted, eating what they ate... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales by Byron De Prorok Publisher Comments This is de Prorok's tale of his archeological expedition into Abyssinia (now called Ethiopia) in 1933-34. Hardly the patient scientist, Prorok tells about raiding tombs, flirting with native women, outrunning murderous warlords, spying on magical cults... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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African Silences by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar by Jennifer Cole Publisher Comments Sex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascars economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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