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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Slavery In Africa: Historical & Anthropological Perspectives

By Suzanne Miers, Igor Kopytoff

Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa

By David Parkin

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

By Stephen G. Bunker

A Historical Guide to World Slavery

By Seymour Drescher (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh), Stanley L. Engerman (Munro Professor of Economics, Munro Professor of Economics, University of Rochester)

The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo, 1880-92

By J. Vansina

Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan

By Ladislav Holy (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Slavery and Human Progress

By David Brion Davis

Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana

By Bayo Holsey

Social Change And Political Transformation: A New Europe?

By Howard Davis, Chris Rootes

Notes on Nationalism (Penguin Modern)

By Orwell, George

When a Parent is Mentally Retarded

By Barbara Y. Whitman, Pasquale J. Accardo

Respect in a World of Inequality

By Richard Sennett (New York University)

Expanding Empires: Cultural Interaction and Exchange in World Societies from Ancient to Early Modern Times

By Michael A. Polushin, Wendy Kasinec

Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface

By Eric R. Wolf

The Company Of Critics: Social Criticism And Political Commitment In The Twentieth Century

By Michael Walzer

The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt

By Patrick D. Gaffney

Essays on Cultural Transmission

By Maurice Bloch

The Enigma of the Gift

By Maurice Godelier

Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics

By Beth Baron

Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion

By Cecilia Busby, I. M. Lewis

Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies

By Gibson, Mark

Food And Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits

By Marvin Harris

Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics

By Julie Burchill

Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

By Paul Landau, Deborah Kaspin

Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies

By Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin

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

By James Clifford, Clifford, J

Strangers in African Society

By William A. Shack, Elliott P. Skinner

Urban Anthropology: Cross-cultural Studies of Urbanization

By Aidan Southall

Women in Southern Africa

By Christine N. Qunta