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Iron, Gender, & Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies
by Eugenia W Herbert  Publisher Comments Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities-chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making-to propose a gender/age-based theory of power....
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Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
by Debra L Klein Publisher Comments Responding to growing international interest in the Yorùbá culture of southwestern Nigeria, practitioners of bàtá—a centuries-old drumming, dancing, and singing tradition—have recast themselves as traditional performers in...
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Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (In-Formation)
by Janet Roitman Publisher Comments Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #22: 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...
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel
by Elenore Smith Bowen Publisher Comments A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa....
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The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa
by Ruth Finnegan Publisher Comments With her 1976 book Oral Literature in Africa, Ruth Finnegan almost single-handedly created the field of ethnography of language. Now, Finnegan has gathered and updated a selection of her best work on oral literature, performance, and the creative use of...
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Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (Part of the New Immigrants Series) (New Immigrants Series)
by Jon Holtzman Publisher Comments This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. In understanding the...
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Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, C. 1870-1986
by Matthew Lockwood Publisher Comments Combining demography, history, and sociology, this book offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and a new definition of the role of household demography in agrarian economies. It provides a useful perspective on the ways in which...
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In the Arms of Africa :turnbull
by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments What Margaret Mead did for Samoa, Colin Turnbull did for Africa. An upper class Oxford-educated Englishman, Turnbull’s life-long love affair with the African Pygmies made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and ‘70s. In an...
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Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu
by James A Pritchett Synopsis Breaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and rhetorical styles, "Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu" offers an insider's view into the day-to-day lives...
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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
by Malidoma Patrice Some' Publisher Comments Among the Dagara of Burkina Faso there is no distinction between the natural and the supernatural: The living converse with ancestral spirits, and those with the proper knowledge routinely travel to other worlds. Malidoma Patrice Some was born in a...
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Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by Carol Ann Muller Publisher Comments With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites (ibandla lamaNazaretha) is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa. Founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe, it offers South Africans—particularly...
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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...
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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....
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Global Shadows : Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (06 Edition)
by James Ferguson Publisher Comments A leading anthropologist of Africa considers that continent?s place within an egregiously imbalanced world economic and social...
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The Afterlife Is Where We Come From
by Alma Gottlieb Publisher Comments When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual...
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Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya
by Cynt Hoehler Fatton Publisher Comments The African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, is a charismatic and prophetic movement that arose in the Luo region of western Kenya. This movement has fascinated students of history and religion for more than sixty years, but surprisingly...
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Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and the Inequality Among
by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies)...
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Black Atlantic Religion : Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-brazilian Candombl
by J. Lorand Matory Publisher Comments "This book presents a strongly argued thesis about the origins of Candomble that is radically different from the usual interpretations presented so far about its origin and status. No serious scholar interested in the process of the transmission of...
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On Borders: Perspectives on International Migration in Southern Africa
by David A Mcdonald Publisher Comments Based on national surveys by SAMP in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, this book represents the most comprehensive research on cross-border migration ever undertaken in the region. From gender relations to xenophobia and...
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