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Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

By Susan Reynolds Whyte (University of Copenhagen)

Rural Hausa: A Village and a Setting

By Polly Hill

Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

By Dipo Faloyin

Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology

By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

In the Time of Cannibals: The World Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants

By David Coplan

Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence and Ritual in Gisu Society

By Suzette Heald

Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West

By Veit Erlmann (Professor and Endowed Chair, School of Music, Professor and Endowed Chair, University of Texas, Austin)

Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid

By Belinda Bozzoli

Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa

By Harri Englund, Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Salt

By Mark Kurlansky

Twice Migrants

By Parminder Bhachu

Postcolonial Identities in Africa

By Richard Werbner, Terence Ranger

Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa

By Richard Werbner

Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

By Rozina Visram

The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa

By Ruth Finnegan

The Virgin, the King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780

By Maria Elena Diaz

Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Cte d'Ivoire

By Joseph Hellweg

Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte

By Michael Lambek

Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte

By Michael Lambek

Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Nuer Prophets

By Douglas H. Johnson

Family Identity And The State In The Bamako Kafu, C. 1800-c. 1900

By B. Marie Perinbam, B Marie Perinbam

Half London in Zambia: Contested Identities in a Catholic Mission School

By Anthony Simpson

From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production

By Esther N. Goody

Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

By Frances Stonor Saunders

The Character of Kingship

By Declan Quigley

From Occupation to Independence: A History of the Peoples of the English-Speaking Caribbean Region

By Richard Hart

The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean

By Richard Price

People of the Plow: Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1900

By James C. McCann

The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taino