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The Ritual Effect: The Transformative Power of Our Everyday Actions

By Michael Norton

The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story

By Stephen Oppenheimer

The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt

By Patrick D. Gaffney

Difficult Folk?: A Political History of Social Anthropology

By David Mills

Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans

By Pryor, Francis

Essays on Cultural Transmission

By Maurice Bloch

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

By Florencia E. Mallon, Gladys McCormick

The Enigma of the Gift

By Maurice Godelier

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

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

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

The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-century Ethnography, Literature and Art

By James Clifford, Clifford, J

The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa

By Leroy Vail

'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt

By Anita H. Fabos

A Mediterranean Society, An Abridgment in One Volume

By S. D. Goitein, Jacob Lassner

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

By Fernand Braudel

Chiefs in South Africa: Law, Power and Culture in the Post-Apartheid Era

By Barbara Oomen

A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal, 1720-1994

By Adrian Adams (Secretary, Secretary, Federation des Paysans Organises du Departement de Bakel), Jaabe So (President, President

A Reliable Account of the Coast of Guinea (1760)

By Ludewig Ferdinand Romer, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba

By J. D. Y. Peel

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

By J.D.Y. Peel

Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East

By Kevin Dwyer

A Crime Against Humanity

By Max Coleman

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

Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History

By Nancy J. Jacobs (Brown University, Rhode Island)

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

By Ira Berlin (University of Maryland College Park)

Afrocuba: Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture

By Pedro Perez Sarduy, Jean Stubbs