Social Science
Social Science
AIDS and Stds in Africa: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine
This book emphasizes the factors in the spread and control of AIDS that have received less attention in the literature. It suggests that a collaborative action program involving traditional healers is necessary if we wish to impact the spread of...
$260.00
Anansi the Talking Spider and Other Legendary Creatures of Africa
African culture, like many others around the world, is rich with tales of legendary animals and creatures. Readers of this captivating book will love learning about these fascinating stories, from that of Anansi, a cunning spider, to that of Grootslang,...
$37.00
AIDS and Stds in Africa: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine
This book emphasizes the factors in the spread and control of AIDS that have received less attention in the literature. It suggests that a collaborative action program involving traditional healers is necessary if we wish to impact the spread of...
$78.00
AIDS in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has been more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. The United Nations reports that 25.4 million adults and children are infected with the HIV virus in the region, which has about 10% of...
$18.00
Analysis of the phenomenon of sexology consultations in Africa
Sexuality in Africa is highly complex, marked by both challenges and progress, especially with the advent of colonization, it is difficult to identify Negro-African cultures and what has been imported or borrowed. This study examines the socio-cultural factors that influence...
$60.00
The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa (Revised)
Monica Wilson and the late Godfrey Wilson wrote this book as a result of field work in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, where they were able to observe the impact of European civilization upon traditional African societies and the structural changes...
$69.00
AIDS in Africa (2002. Softcover Reprint of the Original 2nd 2002)
The way we deal with AIDS in Africa will All of them take account of the local cultural determine Africa’s future. The devastation context. But they all have something else in wrought by HIV/AIDS on the continent is so common;...
$221.00
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historic contexts....
$86.00
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historic contexts....
$260.00
Analyses of Crime Prevention Programs in Cape Town, South Africa
This book examines facts and issues Cape Town is dealing with concerning crime prevention affairs. It focuses on Capetonian institutions which are involved in criminal matters and shall provide an overview about their different projects and methods to tackle the...
$34.00
Analisi del fenomeno delle consultazioni sessuologiche in Africa
La sessualità in Africa è molto complessa, segnata da sfide e progressi, soprattutto con l'avvento della colonizzazione. È difficile identificare le culture negro-africane e ciò che è stato importato o preso in prestito. Questo studio esamina i fattori socio-culturali che...
$59.00
Arts of West Africa: (Excluding Music)
Originally published in 1935, the aim of this book was to introduce the European to the art of West Africa. Many of the examples (extensively illustrated with black and white photos are from the regions between Senegal and Angola, primarily...
$62.00
Arts of West Africa: (Excluding Music)
Originally published in 1935, the aim of this book was to introduce the European to the art of West Africa. Many of the examples (extensively illustrated with black and white photos are from the regions between Senegal and Angola, primarily...
$182.00
The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging (2014)
The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and...
$78.00
The Arts of Africa: Studying and Conserving the Collection; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
A groundbreaking analysis of one of the most significant collections of African art in the United StatesThe collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in...
$59.00
Artificial Walls. South African Narratives on Conflict, Difference and Identity. An Exploratory Study in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This book offers far-reaching insights into perceptions of conflict in South Africa. Claude-Hélène Mayer's approach is remarkable, because she imparts the recollections of numerous people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The author captures the essence of about one-hundred interviews...
$56.00
Artificial Intelligence in Hospitality and Tourism in Africa: Prospects, Opportunities, and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence in Hospitality and Tourism in Africa offers a timely and comprehensive exploration of AI’s transformative role in tourism and hospitality across Africa, and other emerging regions. As global industries rapidly adopt AI technologies, this timely volume addresses the critical...
$143.00
Artificial Intelligence and New Social Realities in Africa
This volume examines the multifaceted impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on critical domains of knowledge across African countries, including education, the humanities, agriculture, empirical sciences, commerce, industry and governance. The chapters are organized thematically into sections that address the transformative...
$78.00
The Art of Resistance: Contesting Gentrification and Displacement in South Africa
The Art of Resistance shows how art and artists resist post-Apartheid gentrification and the resulting displacement in Woodstock, a central neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa.It does so first by offering a detailed exploration of the history of gentrification in South Africa...
$156.00
The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History
In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"—the recovery of facts and narratives of...
$38.00
The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History
In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"—the recovery of facts and narratives of...
$141.00
The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa
$48.00
The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa
How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of...
$48.00
The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa
$169.00
The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa
How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of...
$169.00
African Households: Censuses and Surveys
This volume in the ?General Demography of Africa? series encompasses many nations and focuses on a feature of the censuses ? household relationships. African households rank among the most complex in the world. This work makes it possible to investigate...
$165.00
African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (2021)
The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage...
$182.00
African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (2021)
The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage...
$182.00
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa By: Leo Frobenius, Douglas C. Fox
An eminent German explorer, ethnologist, and authority on prehistoric art, Leo Frobenius (1873‒1938) startled the world of anthropology with his concept of "continuity of cultures" - proposing, for instance, a link between Egyptian religious symbols and preexisting African mythology. In...
$57.00
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa By: Leo Frobenius, Douglas C. Fox
An eminent German explorer, ethnologist, and authority on prehistoric art, Leo Frobenius (1873‒1938) startled the world of anthropology with his concept of "continuity of cultures" - proposing, for instance, a link between Egyptian religious symbols and preexisting African mythology. In...
$34.00
African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa, Second Edition Revised (Revised)
$55.00
African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa, Second Edition Revised (Revised)
African Friends and Money Matters started as notes for Westerners when they traveled and worked in Africa by providing a lens to understand customs and cultures outside of their home culture. Maranz uses his experiences in Africa to discuss how...
$55.00
An African Feminist Philosophy of Language
This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze. The book begins with an analysis of the philosophical context of African feminism, and a...
$38.00