Anthropology & Sociology Biographies

Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan

By Ladislav Holy (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

A History of Modern Yemen

By Paul Dresch (University of Oxford)

Slavery and Human Progress

By David Brion Davis

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

The Most Fun We Ever Had: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

By Lombardo, Claire

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

By Andrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Leslie J. Bank (University of Fort Hare

Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa

By Alcinda Honwana, Filip De Boeck

Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

By Bruce Berman (Author), Will Kymlicka (Royalty Account), Professor Dickson Eyoh (Royalty Account)

Mikidadi wa Mafia. Maisha ya Mwanaharakati na Familia Yake Nchini Tanzania

By Pat Caplan

Hannah Arendt: Thinking, Judging, Freedom

By Gisela T. Kaplan, Clive Kessler

Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins

By Paul Nugent (University of Edinburgh)

The Company Of Critics: Social Criticism And Political Commitment In The Twentieth Century

By Michael Walzer

Difficult Folk?: A Political History of Social Anthropology

By David Mills

Essays on Cultural Transmission

By Maurice Bloch

Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas

By Florencia E. Mallon, Gladys McCormick

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

By Patrick Wilcken

The Enigma of the Gift

By Maurice Godelier

Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

By Wendy James, N. J. Allen

The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

The World of the Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization

By John Middleton

Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion

By Cecilia Busby, I. M. Lewis

African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village

By Pat Caplan

Phoenicians

By Glenn E. Markoe

Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

By Paul Landau, Deborah Kaspin

Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective

By Tessa M. Pollard (University of Durham)

Strangers in African Society

By William A. Shack, Elliott P. Skinner

Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara

By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, David Maisel

Women in Southern Africa

By Christine N. Qunta

Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction

By J.D.Y. Peel

Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Civilisation

By James Suzman