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Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations

By Wendy James

Tradition & Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience

By Gyekye, Kwame

Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World

By Eric Schlosser

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition

By Kanan Makiya

On Nationality

By David Miller (Official Fellow in Social and Political Theory, Official Fellow in Social and Political Theory, Nuffield College, Oxford)

Marriage, Perversion, and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia 1894-1930

By Diana Jeater (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of the West of England, Bristol)

On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture

By Louis A. Perez Jr.

War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile

By Wendy James (Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford)

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

By Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders

Honour in African History

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

The Idea of Africa

By V.Y. Mudimbe

Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century

By Johan Pottier (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840

By David Newbury

The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

By Peter Mark (Wesleyan University, Connecticut), Jose da Silva Horta (Universidade de Lisboa)

Education Towards Race Equality

By Gillian Klein

Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St.John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life

By Karen Fog Olwig

Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy

By Rajeev Bhargava, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, R. Sudarshan

Marxism and Anthropology

By Maurice Bloch

Knowledge in Practice: Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge

By Kai Kresse, Trevor Marchand

Modern African Spirituality: The Independent Holy Spirit Churches in East Africa

By Ane Marie Bak Rasmussen

The Road Ahead

By Bill Gates, etc.

Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka

By Godfrey Lienhardt (former Reader in Social Anthropology, former Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford)

Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing

By Jack Mapanje

Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State

By Sharon E. Hutchinson

Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition

By Eisei Kurimoto, Simon Simonse

Understanding Social Anthropology

By David Pocock, Jeremy MacClaney

Marpingen Visions: Religion,Rationalism & Rise of Modern Germany

By David Blackbourn

Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture

By Rowland Smith

White Power and the Liberal Conscience: Racial Segregation and South African Liberalism, 1921-60

By Paul B. Rich