Anthropology & Sociology Biographies

Identity in the Shadow of Slavery

By Paul E. Lovejoy

How Population Change Will Transform Our World

By Sarah Harper (Professor of Gerontology, Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)

The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech

By Shane White, Graham White

Beyond the Blue Mountains: Wisdom and Compassion on Living and Dying - An Anthology Collected by Elizabeth Bassett

By Elizabeth Bassett

A Curious History of Sex

By Kate Lister

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c.1935-1972

By Derek R. Peterson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Afrique Ambigue

By Georges Balandier

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa

By Baba, of Karo, Mary F. Smith

Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica

By Jean Besson

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

By Stephen G. Bunker

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