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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

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

By Chris Dolan

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

By Hunt, Nancy Rose

Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro

By Mary Howard, Ann V. Millard