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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
by Michela Wrong  Publisher Comments Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national...
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Ritual Process : Structure and Anti-structure (95 Edition)
by Victor W. Turner Synopsis The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. The American Anthropologist called Turner's book...
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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...
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Warrior Women Amazons of Dahomey & Natur
by Robert Edgerton Publisher Comments Some prominent anthropologists have been joined by an eminent military historian in declaring that military combat - at all times and in all places - has been a male activity. They advance many reasons for this pattern, some more plausible than others...
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Healing Wisdom of Africa
by Malidoma Patri Some Synopsis A fascinating, detailed journey through the traditional healing practices of West Africa by a beloved shaman and scholar....
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Global Shadows : Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (06 Edition)
by James Ferguson Synopsis "Speaking rationally about Africa is not something that has ever come naturally. This book is a tour de force. James Ferguson shows that a radical critique of the most obtuse and cynical prejudices about Africa can be made without one repeating and...
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Africa
by John Reader Synopsis Reader and Lewis render a remarkable portrait of the continent, capturing the complex, diverse life story of Africa's many peoples, myriad landscapes, and teeming wildlife. To be released in conjunction with PBS and National Geographic's eight-hour TV...
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The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation
by James L Newman Publisher Comments Tracing the development of Africa's peoples from their origins over four million years ago to the onset of the colonial era in the late nineteenth century, James Newman discusses the roles played by language, technology, occupation, and religion in...
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Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
by Alma Gottlieb Publisher Comments This suspenseful and moving memoir of Africa recounts the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire. With an unusual coupling of first...
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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...
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The Lost Cities of Africa
by Basil Davidson Synopsis Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores....
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Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa (Studies in Environment and History)
by Robert Harms Publisher Comments In this book, Robert Harms makes an important advance toward recovering the history of the people of the rain forest by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. Using concepts drawn from game...
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The Ngo Factor in Africa
by M N Amutabi Synopsis "The NGO Factor in Africa "breaks new ground in understanding the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Africa. The book historicizes NGOs using the Rockefeller Foundation as a case study, looking at its tripartite paradoxical roles as an...
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Among the Ibos of Nigeria (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers)
by George 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...
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The Language of the Land: Living Among the Hadzabe in Africa
by James Stephenson Publisher Comments A rare adventure with the last Stone Age hunting and gathering tribe in Africa. In l997 James Stephenson arranged to have almost a full year free, a year he wanted to spend among the Hadzabe in East Africa. He had visited these people several times...
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Africa's Ogun (African Systems of Thought)
by Sandra T Barnes Book News Annotation Sixteen contributions, including five new essays and a new introduction, explore the international vitality of Ogun, the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting who is worshipped by more than 40 million adherents in West Africa, the Caribbean...
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales
by Byron De Prorok Synopsis 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...
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Iron, Gender, & Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies
by Eugenia W Herbert Synopsis 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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Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia
by Manuel Jordan Publisher Comments In Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia, Manuel Jordán reveals the beauty and complexity of the remarkable masquerade traditions of the Chokwe, Mbunda, Lunda, Lwena/Luvale, and Luchazi peoples who live in the "Three Corners" region of northwestern...
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