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Paperback. The Yoruba, one of the most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria, are noted for the economic activity, confidence, and authority of their women. This title traces the history of women in Yorubaland from around 1820 to 1960 and Nigerian independence. It shows how and why women's roles and status changed during the 19th century and the colonial era. Editor(s): McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 b&w photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220547
- ISBN
- 9780253220547
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
paperback. Sango - the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning - is a powerful, fearful deity who controls the forces of nature. This title explores Sango religious traditions in West Africa and beyond. It considers the spread of polytheistic religious traditions from West Africa, the mythic Sango, the historical Sango, and syncretic traditions of Sango worship. Editor(s): Tishken, Joel E.; Falola, Toyin; Akinyemi, Akintunde. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 b&w photos, 2 maps, 12 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HRKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220943
- ISBN
- 9780253220943
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Looks at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. This book examines violence as a tool of domination and resistance, however unequally applied, to get to the heart of why Nigeria has not built a successful democracy. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1HFD; GTB; JPA; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221193
- ISBN
- 9780253221193
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. Performance as public enactment of justice and human rights Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221452
- ISBN
- 9780253221452
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.48
€ 30.99
€ 27.48
paperback. Beginning where stories of colonial liquor control and exploitation leave off, this title looks at the commerce of beer, it's valorising of male sociability and sports, and the corporate culture of South African Breweries, the world's most successful brewing company. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFCV; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221803
- ISBN
- 9780253221803
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. Staging a new politics of performance in the African diaspora Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222268
- ISBN
- 9780253222268
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Hardcover. Staging a new politics of performance in the African diaspora Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253355133
- ISBN
- 9780253355133
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Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Hardcover. Intimacy and AIDS in South Africa Num Pages: 324 pages, 12 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFH2; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780253355331
- ISBN
- 9780253355331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.72
€ 76.72
Hardback. The indigenous rights movement in Africa Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMP; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253356208
- ISBN
- 9780253356208
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Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Paperback. Discusses how the writers or editors of Arab women's autobiographies have written, documented, presented, and organized their texts. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 2CSR; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780292705456
- ISBN
- 9780292705456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.28
€ 26.99
€ 25.28
Paperback. The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. This title creates an intercultural frame to study the historical and cultural connections among Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos/as since the 1960s. Series: Chicana Matters Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLCM; 2ADSL; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292709652
- ISBN
- 9780292709652
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Paperback. Tracing the history of Western and Arab fascination with Egypt through spurious hunts for lost civilizations and the new economic disparities brought about by the oil industry, this title describes the ways in which moments of cultural contact, driven by tourism and labour migration, become eye-opening opportunities for defining self and other. Num Pages: 296 pages, 49 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1F; 1HBE; GTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292717022
- ISBN
- 9780292717022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.50
€ 31.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. Examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the 'Bulwark of Islam', into 'Alger la blanche', the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. This title offers a look at the social use of urban space in a North African city. Editor(s): Celik, Zeynep; Clancy-Smith, Julia; Terpak, Frances. Num Pages: 288 pages, 90 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; AC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295988689
- ISBN
- 9780295988689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.72
€ 42.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. Describes what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use. In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; 3JH; 3JJ; CF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780520076259
- ISBN
- 9780520076259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.80
€ 34.99
€ 25.80
Paperback. Using contemporary Algerian politics as a case study of the intellectual movement labeled 'Third Worldism', this title elucidates the broader transformations affecting countries of the Third World that once embraced ideologies of state-centered radical change. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJ; JFSR2; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520203013
- ISBN
- 9780520203013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.38
€ 38.99
€ 28.38
Hardback. When the anthropologist returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. This book tells the story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; BJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281103
- ISBN
- 9780520281103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 72.77
€ 94.64
€ 72.77
Paperback. The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, the 2000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration are presented in this volume. Series: The Edwin O.Reischauer Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1H; GTB; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 119 x 11. Weight in Grams: 149.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674009868
- ISBN
- 9780674009868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.77
€ 37.99
€ 31.77
Paperback. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - this title shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; HBLW; HRH; JFFK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691026053
- ISBN
- 9780691026053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 42.32
€ 53.24
€ 42.32
Hardback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691167824
- ISBN
- 9780691167824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 79.38
€ 104.11
€ 79.38
Hardback. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JHMC; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691170770
- ISBN
- 9780691170770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.27€ 71.09
€ 92.27
€ 71.09
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBTK; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613598
- ISBN
- 9780691613598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.81
€ 52.99
€ 37.81
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691615486
- ISBN
- 9780691615486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.98€ 55.42
€ 70.98
€ 55.42
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 490 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 3JJ; JPF; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691621913
- ISBN
- 9780691621913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.90€ 59.66
€ 76.90
€ 59.66
Paperback. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623641
- ISBN
- 9780691623641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 50.91
€ 65.07
€ 50.91