books by subject
Anthropology & Sociology Biographies

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

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

The Enigma of the Gift

Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

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

The World of the Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization

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

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

Phoenicians

Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective

Strangers in African Society

Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara

Women in Southern Africa

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

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

Against Humanity: Lessons from the Lord's Resistance Army

The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England

Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self

Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

The Species that Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity

Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda

Social Torture: The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006

A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text)

Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

Narrative and Genre

Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies
