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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People
by Jean Comaroff  Publisher Comments In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi...
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When We Began There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya
by Jeffrey Fadiman Publisher Comments This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were...
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Exploring Theories of Sickness & Misfortune among the Hasandowa: Narratives As Points of Entry into Beja Cultural Knowledge
by Frode Jacobsen Publisher Comments In a world constantly mourning the loss of unique cultures to the spread of homogenenaiety, the Muslim Beja of the Red Sea Hills in North-Eastern Africa have been able to maintain their culture through social, economic, and environmental changes. In his...
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The Python Killer: Stories of Nzema Life
by V L Grottanelli Publisher Comments The Nzema of West Africa, who inhabit a land of forest and lagoons along the Atlantic, continue a heritage untapped by anthropologists and scarcely influenced by Western civilization. Vinigi L. Grottanelli first discovered the rich culture of this...
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King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies
by Joan T Mark Publisher Comments Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904–53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a...
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Lost World of the Kalahari
by Lauren Van Der Post Book News Annotation First published in 1958. This is the 30th anniversary reissue. Seventy-five fine color photos have been added, along with an epilogue by the author. No index or bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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The Physical Geography of Africa
by William M Adams Publisher Comments This is an advanced, full length, physical geography of Africa, written by a distinguished international team of scholars. The first group of chapters identify pan-African patterns in the physical environment and those physical attributes that are...
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Keeping house in Lusaka
by Karen Tranbe Hansen Publisher Comments This book pens a window on the experiences of urban people living through one of Africa's most dramatic economic declines in the postcolonial era by focusing on such broad themes as household dynamics, gender politics, and informal economy in Mtendere...
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Stylistic boundaries among mobile hunter-foragers
by C Garth Sampson Publisher Comments In this study of the valley-wide distributions of South African decorative motifs, Sampson pioneers a methodology for etching band-territories out of the archaeological surface trace left by mobile hunter-forager societies....
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Rural-Urban Dynamics in Francophone Africa
by Jonathan Baker Synopsis This book presents some examples of the richness and variety of contemporary research on rural-urban interactions by francophone researchers. Case studies are drawn from Burkina Faso, C??te d???Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal and Togo....
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Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung
by Richard Katz Publisher Comments This account of the ancient healing dances practiced by the Kung people of southern Africa's Kalahari Desert includes vivid eyewitness descriptions of night-long healing dances and interviews with Kung Healers....
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Law of the Lifegivers Yaka Domestication
by Rene Devisch Publisher Comments African societies are gifted with a rich creativity, often expressed in intimate corporeal terms. For the Yaka people of southwestern Congo, such manifestations can have individual, social, or even cosmic significance. The Law of the Lifegivers...
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Mantis Carol
by Lauren Van Der Post
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Crania Habessinica: Contributo All'Antropologia Dell'Africa Orientale
by Sergio Sergi
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Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought
by T O Beidelman
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Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal
by Ferdinand De Jong
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Cultural atlas of Africa
by Jocelyn Murray
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Hatchets Blood Ehing Social Life
by Marc R Schloss
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Women & Development in Africa
by Michael Kevane
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The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (Zaire)
by Daniel Biebuyck
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