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Africa
Paperback. Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yoruba genres of music. Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies: Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJ; AVA; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Pap/ComReissued Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464932
- ISBN
- 9781580464932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 41.60
€ 42.99
€ 41.60
Paperback. Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "happy are those who sing and dance," and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. This title deals with political leadership, social mobility, and what it meant to be a bon chef (good leader) in Mobutu's Zaire. Num Pages: 328 pages, 59 photos, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; GTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341123
- ISBN
- 9780822341123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22
Paperback. It is November 1963. The white police state has captured almost all the underground leaders of the struggle against apartheid, including Nelson Mandela, and put them on trial on charges that carry the death penalty. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431407842
- ISBN
- 9781431407842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.32
€ 21.99
€ 20.32
Paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 7 colour photos, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JHBT; LNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816670031
- ISBN
- 9780816670031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99
€ 26.99
hardcover. Keywords: Africa. 250pp
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- SKU
- KNW0007034
- ISBN
- 9780826485021
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
hardcover. Num Pages: 294 pages, 4 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253023995
- ISBN
- 9780253023995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.20
€ 97.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, 4 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024039
- ISBN
- 9780253024039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
Hardcover. Paper dustwrapper is well worn with some tears to edges but nonetheless remains good. Else a very nice copy which has aged well
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Shuter & Shooter
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1947
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KTJ0050422
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: by Leslie Blackwell and Henry John May. 169 p. illus., ports., map (on lining-papers). 25 cm. Associated Names: May, Henry John,. Publishers cloth. Good copy with generally clean cloth and title in black on spine and front board with motif, suggestion of dust dulling to spine and edges, well defined edges and firm binding, clean and crisp pages."
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Shuter & Shooter
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1947
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KEX0129005
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: by Leslie Blackwell ; with a foreword by J.C. Smuts. 287 p. 23 cm. Quarter cloth over boards. Good copy with tight binding, generally clean cloth and boards with title on spine, very minor rub wear to edges of boards and spine bands." Keywords: Subjects
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- National Book Association
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0071380
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 22.00€ 4.99
€ 22.00
€ 4.99
Hardcover. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSR2; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850657606
- ISBN
- 9781850657606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.45€ 51.90
€ 52.45
€ 51.90
Hardback. Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFFE; JHMC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332364
- ISBN
- 9781785332364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.00
€ 170.00
Paperback. Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFFE; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 310 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332937
- ISBN
- 9781785332937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.95
€ 28.95
Paperback. Drawn from a CODESRIA conference on 'Intellectuals and Nationalism', the essays of this book look at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi, and Achebe, the military men in power and the students who defy repression. Editor(s): Beckman, Bjorn; Adeoti, Gbemisola. Series: Africa in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 135. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781842777657
- ISBN
- 9781842777657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.36
€ 45.99
€ 38.36
Hardback. Editor(s): Ndemo, Bitange; Weiss, Tim. Num Pages: 509 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; KJH; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 218 x 36. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137578808
- ISBN
- 9781137578808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
Hardcover. Essays . [which] arose out of a series of lectures delivered by the staff of the Department of African Studies in . [Delhi] University's programme of extension lectures . Revised by the authors." Bibliographical footnotes. xi, 133 p. 23 cm. ". Keywords: Subjects
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Asia Publishing House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1960
- SKU
- KEX0055977
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Contains the proceedings of the 6th Danish Sahel Workshop, which took place in January 1994. Editor(s): Brander Rasmussen, Birgit; Reenberg, Annette. Series: AAU Reports. Num Pages: 182 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1HBX; 1HFD; GTF; JFSF; JHBD; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Aarhus Universitet, Afdeling for Systematisk Botanik Denmark
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788787600415
- ISBN
- 9788787600415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.78
€ 10.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, ill: 20, b&w. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838203201
- ISBN
- 9783838203201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.98
€ 37.99
€ 27.98
Paperback. Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, this book examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. It also captures the process of film-making in Ghana. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 31 b/w. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AFKV; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287686
- ISBN
- 9780520287686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the founding of Memphis around 5000 BC onwards. Num Pages: 144 pages, 70 colour maps and 70 illus. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; HBLA; HBTP; RGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 180 x 8. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140513318
- ISBN
- 9780140513318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.86
€ 25.99
€ 17.86
Hardback. The author goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. In this book, he casts his inimitable eye on a continent new to him, and the resultant diary, contains all his laugh-out-loud wit, wry observation and curious insight. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrated with 8pp of colour. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 186 x 14. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857524201
- ISBN
- 9780857524201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.11
€ 17.99
€ 13.11
Hardcover. Investigates class mobility in a group of 40 -50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel. Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1HBM; JFFN; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814338810
- ISBN
- 9780814338810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.22€ 53.76
€ 58.22
€ 53.76
Paperback. This interdisciplinary volume examines the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision" and explores the role that scholars can and should play in approaching this issue. Editor(s): Shell-Duncan, Bettina; Hernlund, Ylva. Series: Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations & Innovations S. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JFFE2; JFM; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555879952
- ISBN
- 9781555879952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.43
€ 31.99
€ 27.43
Hardback. The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. Editor(s): Bethencourt, Francisco; Pearce, Adrian. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy. Num Pages: 380 pages, 12 halftones, tables, and graphs. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1FMNT; 1HFG; 1KLSB; HBJ; HBTR; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265246
- ISBN
- 9780197265246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.75
€ 108.75