Anthropology & Sociology Biographies

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

Against Humanity: Lessons from the Lord's Resistance Army

By Sam Dubal

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

By Michael Twaddle (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK)

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

By Karin Barber

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

By Sverker Finnstroem

The Species that Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity

By Edwin Gale

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

By Lydia Boyd