Social Science
Social Science
Africa and its Inhabitants; Volume 3
Explore the diverse cultures and peoples of the continent of Africa with this comprehensive study by A. H. Keane and Elisée Reclus. Covering everything from history and geography to customs and languages, this book is an essential resource for anyone...
$53.00
Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora
Afrika and Alemania explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinematic texts across two centuries. By examining how different groups of women with access to German culture have depicted Africa, Africans, and the African diaspora, the book challenges...
$56.00
Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora
Afrika and Alemania explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinematic texts across two centuries. By examining how different groups of women with access to German culture have depicted Africa, Africans, and the African diaspora, the book challenges...
$130.00
Africa and Its Inhabitants; Volume 2
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$55.00
Africa and Its Inhabitants; Volume 2
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$40.00
Africa and Its Inhabitants; Volume 1
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$40.00
Africa and Its Inhabitants; Volume 1
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$55.00
Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America: Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context
The present volume is mainly the result of two symposia held at the European Archaeological Association meetings in Krakow (2006) and Zadar (2007), respectively, which gathered studies on the function, morphology, materiality, technology, ritual, function and context of figurines, whether...
$52.00
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond
$62.00
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond
What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose...
$62.00
Africa and Its Inhabitants
Africa and Its Inhabitants is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....
$71.00
The Anthropology of Self - Person and Myth in Africa: A Philosophical Reflection on Man in South-East-Africa
The Anthropology of Self - Person, Myth in Africa is a display of what man is and not what man has; it is a correction of misconception of man (in Africa). «Is» assumes a paradoxical approach to human reality (totality of being); man...
$84.00
Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century
This collection of essays interrogates the repositioning of Africa and its diasporas in the unfolding disruptive transformations of the early twenty-first century. It is divided into five parts focusing on America's racial dysfunctions, navigating globalturbulence, Africa's political dramas, the continent's...
$72.00
Anthropology of Development and Change in East Africa
This book contains essays that represent new emphases in development anthropology in East Africa―for example, analyses of decision making in regional and national institutions, political and social assessments of state policies, and local effectiveness of national food aid programs.
$78.00
Anthropology of Development and Change in East Africa
The editors are grateful for the editing and production assistance of a number of IDA staff members, especially Sylvia Horowitz, who copyedited the entire manuscript and supervised its transformation for computer-generated typesetting. Vivian Carlip gave a second editorial reading, Cecily...
$260.00
The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century
In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed...
$110.00
Africa and Israel: Relations in Perspective
This book examines Afro-Israeli relations from about 1958, when Israel launched its diplomatic initiative in Africa, to 1973, when most African states severed their diplomatic ties. It investigates post-1973 ties and provides case studies on Israel's relations with South Africa...
$75.00
Africa and Israel: Relations in Perspective
This book examines Afro-Israeli relations from about 1958, when Israel launched its diplomatic initiative in Africa, to 1973, when most African states severed their diplomatic ties. It investigates post-1973 ties and provides case studies on Israel's relations with South Africa...
$260.00
Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa
This book documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past decade. It presents case study material to bring out the actual and potential contributions of social science to solving development problems found in Africa and...
$78.00
Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East
This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. It demonstrates that anthropology and social sciences have a good deal to contribute to the...
$78.00
Anthropology & Africa
No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been the foundational background for a variety of African studies. However, there has never been a succinct...
$36.00
Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country
Discover the exhilarating diversity of the African continent in storyteller Atinuke’s kaleidoscopic nonfiction guide to the people, flora, and fauna of all fifty-five countries.A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources,...
$29.00
Africa After Gender?
Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. But what is the meaning of gender in an African context? Why does gender usually connote women? Why has gender taken hold in Africa when...
$32.00
Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania
Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A. Schroeder explores why South Africans have not always made themselves welcome guests abroad. By looking at investments in Tanzania, a frontline...
$32.00
Another Africa?: (Post-)Koloniale Afrikaimaginationen Im Russischen, Polnischen Und Deutschen Kontext
Der Band 'AnOther Africa?' untersucht Afrikaimaginationen im russischen, polnischen und deutschen Kontext vor dem Hintergrund postkolonialer Theoriebildung und Ansatzen der Verflechtungsgeschichte. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Afrikareprasentationen in Literatur, Film und (Popular-)Kultur vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute. Die slavistischen und germanistischen Beitrage...
$81.00
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further...
$98.00
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and...
$39.00
Africa: A Practical Guide for Global Health Workers
Written by authors who speak directly from their years of personal and professional experience with health projects in Africa, this book provides an integrated historical, social, political, economic, and health introduction to a series of African countries. It also offers...
$32.00
Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development
“Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural industry. The combined effect of the volume is to disabuse the fixed, prevailing conception of the role of culture in society;...
$121.00
