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Abangma: Modes in Denya Discourse. Paperback (Cameroon)

Modes in Denya Discourse. Paperback
by Samson Negbo Abangma
xii, 123 pages. 1987

Adive: The Verbal Piece in Ebira. Paperback

Verbal Piece in Ebira. Paperback
John R. Adive
174 pages, with sample spectograms, map, bibliography. Ebira is a language spoken in Nigeria

Agbasiere: Women in Igbo Life and Thought. Paperback

Women in Igbo Life and Thought. Paperback
Joseph Therese Agbasiere
216 pages, 8 plates, 4 maps, 4 tables. This ethnographic study of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria examines kinship practices, marriage customs, and women's responsibilities in the house and the community, establishing the tremendous influence that Igbo women wield in public affairs

Anderson: Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History. Paperback

Revealing Prophets. Prophecy in Eastern African History. Paperback
by David M. Anderson Douglas H. Johnson
x, 310 pages, with 7 maps, 1995

Asante: Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy. Paperback

Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy. Paperback
edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama
v, 186 pages. 2002. This book analyses the inconsistencies erupting from academic and Eurocentric reports on ancient culture. For example, if the pyramids were built in 2800 BC and Greek civilisation began around 700 BC, how could the Greeks have contributed or taught Africans maths and science? And if the Greeks built pyramids in Egypt, why did they not build a few in Greece? These questions and more are raised in this informative collection.

Ashforth: Madumo. A Man Bewitched. Paperback

Madumo. A Man Bewitched. Paperback
Adam Ashforth
262 pages. 2005. This true story of witchcraft and friendship is set against the turbulent backdrop of contemporary Soweto. Adam Ashworth finds his friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother.

Aubin: The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C.. Paperback

Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C.
by Henry Trocme Aubin
464 pages. 2003. In the summer of 701 B.C. Jerusalem faced a siege from Assyrian forces that had razed countless walled cities, pillaging and looting them, dispersing the defeated populations to distant places, and torturing the leaders to death.

Banham: A History of Theatre in Africa. Hardback

History of Theatre in Africa. Hardback
Edited by Martin Banham
496 pages. 2004. This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora

Barber: Readings in African Popular Culture. Paperback

Readings in African Popular Culture. Paperback
edited by Karin Barber
viii, 184 pages. 1997

Bargna: Afrika. Architektur und Kunst. Hardcover, 19,5 x 28,5 cm

Afrika. Architektur und Kunst. Hardcover, 19,5 x 28,5 cm
Ivan Bargna
72 Seiten, 122 Abbildungen. Der attraktiv gestaltete Band liefert einen Überblick zur afrikanischen Kunst. Dieses Buch versucht, nicht nur die „Afrikanität“ der Werke zu betrachten, sondern die Kunst im Kontext der Kultur und Zivilisationsgeschichte Afrikas zu behandeln. Ein Abschnitt befasst sich außerdem mit der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Eine Klapptafel liefert einen Überblick über Länder, Orte und Völkergruppen sowie eine Chronologie afrikanischer Geschichte von 29500 v. Chr. bis in das 20. Jh.

Bauval: The Egypt Code. Paperback

The Egypt Code
Robert Bauval 2010
Paperback, 328 p. ; 8.75 H x 1.00 D x 6.00 W inches
Not only develops the author's pyramid-star correlation, but also reveals an amazing "Grand Unified Plan" which involves the extraordinary temples of Upper Egypt.

Blier: African Vodun. Art, Psychology and Power. Paperback

African Vodun. Art, Psychology and Power. Paperback. By Suzanne Blier
486 pages, 8 color plates, 161 illustrations, 4 maps. 1996. Beads, bones, rags, straw, leather, pottery, fur, feathers and blood—these are the raw materials of vodun artworks. The power of these images lies not only in their aesthetic, and counter-aesthetic, appeal but also in their psychological and emotional effect.

Bohannan: Africa and Africans. Fourth Edition. Paperback

Africa and Africans, Fourth Edition. Paperback
Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin
301 pages. 1995. Africa and Africans keeps a watchful eye on what has happened in Africa and on what has happened in the rest of the world that shapes how people look at Africa. The world’s perception of Africa is an entanglement of myth and reality, both reflecting and changing with the times.

Bravmann: The Poetry of Form: The The Hans and Thelma Lehmann Collection of African Art. Catalogue to the exhibition, Seattle, 1982. Hardcover

Poetry of Form: The The Hans and Thelma Lehmann Collection of African Art. Catalogue to the exhibition, Seattle, 1982. Hardback, ca. 22x29cm
Essay by Rene A. Bravmann. 78 pages, 56 duotone illustrations, 4 maps. 1982

Bright: The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa. Cloth

Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa. Cloth
by David F. Bright
310 pages, with a select bibliography, index. 1987
Was 39,50 Now only 19,75

Channa: Oracles, Omens and Dreams. Dream Beliefs among Tribals. Cloth

Oracles, Omens and Dreams. Dream Beliefs among Tribals. Cloth
Edited by S.M. Channa
292 pages. 2002. 1. Navaho dreams. 2. Dreams and Omens among the Nagas. 3. Divination "Adaptive" from whose perspective? 4. Dreams and dream beliefs in north western Australia. 5. The dreaming of Kunukban. 6. Dreams of change: in traditional Melanesian religion. 7. Oracles and dreams among the Lepchas. 8. Ndembu divinatory symbolism. 9. Oracles among the Azande. 10. Manus religion. 11. A Zulu diviner

Connah: African Civilizations. An Archaeological Perspective. 2nd edition. Paperback

African Civilizations. An Archaeological Perspective. 2nd edition. Paperback
by Graham Connah
356 pages, 42 line diagrams, 17 half-tones, 75 figures, 18 maps. 2001. This major new edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the last four thousand years.

Connah: Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology. Paperback

Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology. Paperback
by Graham Connah
208 pages, 25 line figures; 14 maps, 28 photos. 2004. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa's momentous human story.

Dettwyler: Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Paperback

Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Paperback
by Katherine A. Dettwyler
172 pages. 1995. This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates important, not-soon-forgotten messages involving the more sobering aspects of conducting fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. It presents stories from the field that relate on infant feeding and health in Mali.

Evans-Pritchard: Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer. New edition. Paperback

Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer. New edition. Paperback
by Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, with a new introduction by Wendy James
210 pages, 8 plate figures, 9 maps. This is the second in a trilogy of books about the society and culture of the Nuer, a pastoral people of southern Sudan. First published half a century ago, the authors writings created a new agenda for social anthropology and ethnography

Evans-Pritchard: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Paperback

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Paperback
by E.E. Evans-Pritchard, abridged with an introduction by Eva Gillies
xxiii, 265 pages. 1976

February: And Bid Him Sing. Essays in Literature and Cultural Domination. Cloth

And Bid Him Sing. Essays in Literature and Cultural Domination. Cloth
Vernon February
238 pages, maps, tables, index. 1988

Ferguson: Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Paperback

Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Paperback
by James Ferguson. xvii, 326 pages. 1999

Ferguson: Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Paperback

Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Paperback
by James Ferguson. x, 257 pages. 2006

Foley: Anthropological Linguistics. Paperback

Anthropological Linguistics. Paperback.
By William Foley. 520 pages. 1997. It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture.

Fox-Genovese, Genovese: Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order. Paperback

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order. Paperback
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
332 pages. 2008. Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world.

Frankenberg: Der Schwarze Kontinent: Pharaonensymbolik. Nommologische Semester - Reihe

Schwarze Kontinent: Pharaonensymbolik. Nommologische Semester - Reihe Band III.
Gisela von Frankenberg
164 Seiten, viele Abbildungen. Mit u.a. Schoepfungsgeschichte. Die Sirius-Genese. Das Afrikanische Kunstprinzip. Feste und Mysterienspiele. Aegyptische Goettersysteme. Die Pyramide. Das Land Aegypten. Totenbuch / Dynastienliste. Pharaonensymbolik I, II, und III. Motion-Art

Gilley: An Autosegmental Approach to Shilluk Phonology. Paperback

Autosegmental Approach to Shilluk Phonology. Paperback
Leoma G. Gilley
221 pages, with references, index. 1992. (Shiluk is spoken in the Sudan)

Guyer: Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. Paperback

Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. Paperback
by Jane I. Guyer. Foreword by Anthony T. Carter. xvii, 207 pages. 2004

Hahn, Klute: Cultures of Migration. African Perspectives

Cultures of Migration. African Perspectives. Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung Band 32
edited by Hans Peter Hahn, Georg Klute
296 Seiten. 2007

Hamilton: Terrific Majesty the Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention. Paperback

Terrific Majesty. The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention. Paperback
by Carolyn Hamilton
xii, 278 pages. 1998

Harms: Games against Nature. An Eco-Culture History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. Paperback

Games against Nature. An Eco-Culture History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. Paperback
by Robert Harms. 296 pages, 1 line diagram 10 maps. 1999, with a new preface. Robert Harms makes an important advance in this book toward recovering that history by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River.

Heald: Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence and Ritual in Gisu Society. Paperback

Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence and Ritual in Gisu Society. Paperback
by Suzette Heald
208 pages. 1999. An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understanding masculinity and violence in general. It explores issues of male identity among the Gisu of Uganda and the moral dilemma faced by men who define themselves by their capacity for violence

Hinnebusch, Mirza: Kiswahili, a Foundation for Speaking, Reading and Writing. 2nd edition. Paperback

Kiswahili, a Foundation for Speaking, Reading and Writing. Kiswahili, Msingi WA Kusema Kusoma Na Kuandika. Paperback
by Thomas Hinnebusch and Sarah M. Mirza. 288 pages. 2nd edition. 1997

Holloway: Monique and the Mango Rains. Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

Monique and the Mango Rains. Two Years with a Midwife in Mali. Paperback
Kris Holloway
212 pages. 2007. It is a tale of Monique’s unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death.

Hutchinson: Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Paperback

Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Paperback
Sharon E. Hutchinson
428 pages, 30 photographs, 6 tables. 1996. This text combines ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer (of southern Sudan) since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, and what is to be gained from a historicized treatment of ethnographic materials.

Iliffe: Africans. The History of a Continent. 2nd Edition. Paperback

Africans. The History of a Continent. 2nd Edition, Paperback
by John Iliffe
viii, 365 pages, maps, index. 2nd Edition 2007

Jackson: Barawa and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky. Cloth

Barawa and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky. Cloth (novel)
Michael Jackson
210 pages, with 1 map, 1 illustration, Kuranko Glossary. 1986. dustcover bit damaged

Jacobs: Environment, Power, and Injustice. A South African History. Paperback

Environment, Power, and Injustice. A South African History. Paperback.
Nancy J. Jacobs
322 pages 6 line diagrams 15 half-tones 3 tables 6 maps. 2003. This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. She shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race.

Jaggar: Hausa, London Oriental and African Language Library. Hardbound

Hausa. London Oriental and African Language Library
by Philip J. Jaggar
xxxiv, 754 pages. 2001. Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the Blue Nile province of the Sudan.

Jansen: Het Sunjata-epos, zoals verteld in Kela (Mali). Paperback

Sunjata-epos, zoals verteld in Kela (Mali). Paperback
door Jan Jansen
145 pagina’s. 2005. Opruiming

John: The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816. A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry. New edition. Paperback

Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816. A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry. New edition. Paperback
by A. Meredith John. 275 pages. 2004. This study of the slave plantation of Trinidad is based on the Trinidadian slave registration of 1813, 1815, and 1816, when the Registrar of Slaves recorded information on 17,087 plantation slaves.

Kenyon: Five Women of Sennar. Culture and Change in Central Sudan, Second Edition

Five Women of Sennar. Culture and Change in Central Sudan, Second Edition
Susan M. Kenyon
237 pages. 2004. In this second edition of the highly regarded original, five Muslim women and their families from the town of Sennar, Central Sudan, update their life stories.

Kiple: The Caribbean Slave. A Biological History. Paperback

Caribbean Slave. A Biological History. Paperback
Kenneth F. Kiple
288 pages. 2002. The balance of the book is devoted to the health of the black slave in the West Indies. Using the general health and level of nutrition of the island whites as a control, Kiple pays especially close attention to the role that nutrition played in the development of diseases. The study closes with a look at the continuing demographic difficulties of the black West Indian from the abolition of slavery

Kusimba: East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters, Smiths, and Traders. Hardcover

East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters, Smiths, and Traders. Hardcover
edited by Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Sibel Barut Kusimba
xiii, 226 pages. 2003

Larkin: Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Paperback

Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Paperback
by Brian Larkin. xi, 313 pages. 2008

Law: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Paperback

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Paperback (now hardback at paperbackprice)
Edited by Robin Law
291 pages. 2002. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved.

Lawson: Religions of Africa. Traditions in Transformation. Paperback

Religions of Africa. Traditions in Transformation. Paperback
by E. Thomas Lawson
106 pages. 1985. A solid basis for understanding the whole spectrum of the religions of Africa! Lawson presents the history, myths, rituals, institutions, and sociocultural patterns of two representative groups: the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Zulu of South Africa.

Lenssen-Erz: Brandberg, Der Bilderberg Namibias. Kunst und Geschichte einer Urlandschaft. Gebunden

Brandberg, der Bilderberg Namibias. Kunst und Geschichte einer Urlandschaft. Gebunden, 31cm
Tilman Lenssen-Erz und Marie-Theres Erz. Herausgegeben von Gerhard Bosinski.
127 Seiten, mit Zeichnungen sowie zahlreichen farbigen Fotos und Karten. 2000. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Geschichte des Berges. Er versucht das Leben der urgeschichtlichen Jäger und Sammler zu beantworten und zeigt mit einzigartigem Bildmaterial die faszinierenden Wandmalereien.

Leslau: Comparative Dictionary of Ge'ez. (Classical Ethiopic) Cloth

Comparative Dictionary of Ge'ez. (Classical Ethiopic) Ge'ez - English / English - Ge'ez, with an index of the Semitic Roots
by Wolf Leslau
li, 813 pages. 2nd unrevised printing, 1991