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Lela in Bali
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the …
Tiger in an African Palace, and Other Thoughts about Identification and Transformation
From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated
Counterworks
Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten …
Mary Douglas
This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth …
African Languages, Development and the State
This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic …
Taboo, Truth and Religion
Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's …
Learning from the Curse
This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital of Senegal). It's also about the …
Between God, the Dead and the Wild
Based on observations in two West African villages - one a traditionally uncentralised community in contemporary Nigeria, the other a small chiefdom in Cameroon - this study shows …
The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology
In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of …
Between God, the Dead and the Wild
Based on observations in two West African villages - one a traditionally uncentralised community in contemporary Nigeria, the other a small chiefdom in Cameroon - this study shows …
African Broadcast Cultures - Radio in Transition
Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and development on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international …