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Xenophobe's Guide to Kiwis

By Christine Cole Catley, Simon Nicholson

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity

By Marshall Sahlins

The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa

By Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Elizabeth Fentress (School of Oriental and African Studies

Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science

By Robin Horton (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)

Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography

By Thomas Hylland Eriksen

A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and the Creation of Black Identity in Nineteenth-Century Bahia

By Rachel Harding (Iliff School of Theology)

Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradox and Change in the Life Course

By Paul Spencer

Transformations in Africa: Essays on Africa's Later Past

By Graham Connah

Jews Among Muslims: Communities in the Precolonial Middle East

By Shlomo A. Deshen, Walter P. Zenner

Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

By Gregory Mann

How To Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto

By Supreme Understanding

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

By Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer, Noel Annan

Neoliberal Africa: The Impact of Global Social Engineering

By Professor Graham Harrison

Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove

By Ernest Gellner (Late of University of Cambridge)

The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander

By Phiroze Vasunia

The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture

By Richard Hoggart

The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

By John Hale

Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora

By Crispin Bates

The Renaissance Bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo

By Jerry Brotton (, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London)

Modern Ireland 1600-1972

By Professor R F Foster

The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation

By James L. Newman

Shtetl: The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World

By Eva Hoffman

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 7: France

By T. Benton, etc., et al

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 4: Reform and Culture

By J. Bellamy, etc., et al

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 6: Communication and Culture

By T. Benton, etc., et al

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 5: Europe and the Wider World

By Angus Calder, etc., et al

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 2: Venice and Antwerp

By T. Benton, etc., et al

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 1: Popular Culture, Humanism and Belief

By T. Bray, etc., et al

Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: Block 8: British Isles

By J. Bellamy, etc., et al

Maori: Art and Culture

By Dorota Starzecka