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A scholarly journal devoted to the study of African societies and cultures. Editorial emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach to African studies by the inclusion of topics in social sciences, history, the environment, and life sciences. Each i
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Africa archives from September 1999
`CASTE' IN AFRICA: THE EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA RECONSIDERED.
September 22, 1999... In an article entitled `Caste in Africa', published two decades ago in Africa, Todd (1977: 410) suggested that further ethnography in southern Ethiopia would `produce a body of comparative data to support my assertion that we can indeed speak...
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE GWEMBE TONGA FAMILY AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO DEMOGRAPHY'S NUCLEATION THESIS.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... Demography has been criticised recently for failing to take on board theoretical and methodological advances in cognate disciplines. McNicoll, for instance, argues convincingly that demographic theory is `increasingly divorced from any larger,...
LOMA POLITICAL CULTURE: A PHENOMENOLOGY OF STRUCTURAL FORM.
September 22, 1999... This article discusses the implications of a particular model of political culture in Upper Guinea forest societies for the understanding of Loma political and religious organisation. The theory in question focuses on the semantics of territory...
THE BARRACUDA'S TALE: TRAWLERS, THE INFORMAL SECTOR AND A STATE OF CLASSIFICATORY DISORDER OFF THE NIGERIAN COAST.
September 22, 1999... Over the past two. decades the subject of Nigerian food production has invited critical scrutiny from scholars in the related fields of anthropology, political science and development studies (Bates 1981; Beckman and Andrae, 1986; Clough, 1981;...
DAGARA BAGR: RITUALISING MYTH OF SOCIAL FOUNDATION.
September 22, 1999... Much has been written on the groups of people who today call themselves Dagara, Dagaaba, Lobi and Birifor, and who mostly inhabit the North West Region of Ghana and the south-west of Burkina Faso. The language spoken throughout this region...
Nuer Dilemmas: coping with money, war and the state.(Review)
September 22, 1999... SHARON E. HUTCHINSON, Nuer Dilemmas: coping with money, war and the state. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1996, 408 pp., 13.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 520 20284 8.
Hitherto the Nuer of the southern Sudan have been mainly the...
Nuer Prophets: a history of prophecy from the upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.(Review)
September 22, 1999... DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON, Nuer Prophets: a history of prophecy from the upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, 407 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 19 827907 8 hard covers, 16.99 [pounds sterling],...
The Liberian Civil War.(Review)
September 22, 1999... MARK HUBAND, The Liberian Civil War, London and Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1998, 224 pp., 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7146 4785 3 hard covers, 16.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7146 4340 8 paperback.
Books by journalists about the world's...
Disciplines et dechirures: les formes de la violence.
September 22, 1999... Disciplines et dechirures: les formes de la violence. Special issue of Cahiers d'etudes africaines XXXVIII (2-4), 150-2, Pads: Editions EHESS, 1998, 734 pp., ISBN 2 7132 1248 0.
Contemporary manifestations of violence in Africa deserve...
Comrades in Business: post-liberation politics in South Africa.(Review)
September 22, 1999... HERIBERT ADAM, FREDERIK VAN ZYL SLABBERT and KOGILA MOODLEY, Comrades in Business: post-liberation politics in South Africa. Utrecht: International Books, 1998, 240 pp., 18.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 90 5727 022 6.
This collection's...
South Africa in Southern Africa: reconfiguring the region.(Review)
September 22, 1999... DAVID SIMON (ed.), South Africa in Southern Africa: reconfiguring the region. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, 259 pp., t;40.00, ISBN 085355 412 5 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 411 7 paperback....
Climate Change Co-operation in Southern Africa.(Review)
September 22, 1999... IAN H. ROWLANDS (ed.), Climate Change Co-operation in Southern Africa. London: Earthscan Publications, 1998, 186 pp., 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85383 520 X.
The basis of a climate policy of mitigation rests on the assumption that by...
The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896-98) of Siegfried Passarge: nineteenth-century Khoisan- and Bantu-speaking peoples.(Review)
September 22, 1999... EDWIN N. WILMSEN (ed.), The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896-98) of Siegfried Passarge: nineteenth-century Khoisan- and Bantu-speaking peoples, trans. Edwin N. Wilmsen, Edwin Wilmsen and Klaus Keuthmann, Leander Gloversmith and Caroline Jeanneret....
Picturing Bushmen: the Denver African expedition of 1925.(Review)
September 22, 1999... ROBERT J. GORDON, Picturing Bushmen: the Denver African expedition of 1925. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1997, 208 pp., 23.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 8214 1188 8.
Robert Gordon's Picturing Bushmen explores the genesis of the Western...
King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African eyes.(Review)
September 22, 1999... NEIL PARSONS, King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African eyes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 333 pp., 39.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 226 647447 hard covers, 15.25 [pounds sterling], ISBN...
A Sense of Wonder: African art from the Faletti family collection.(Review)
September 22, 1999... M. and a. ROBERTS, A Sense of Wonder: African art from the Faletti family collection. Phoenix AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997, 143 pp., ISBN 0 910407 33 9.
In their introductory essay, the authors, Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts,...
Plundering Africa's Past.(Review)
September 22, 1999... PETER R. SCHMIDT and RODERICK J. McINTOSH (eds), Plundering Africa's Past. Oxford: James Currey, 1996, 296 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 739 6 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 738 8 paperback.
The on-going...
The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism: the genesis and the making of the fiscal military state, 1696-1913.(Review)
September 22, 1999... TSEGAYE TEGENU, The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism: the genesis and the making of the fiscal military state, 1696-1913. Studia Historica Upsaliensa 180, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996, 281 pp., 198.00 kroner, ISBN 91 554 3856 3.
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Afrika zwischen Tradition und Moderne.(Review)
September 22, 1999... BERNHARD MENSEN, SVD (ed.), Afrika zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Akademie Volker und Kulturen St Augustin 19, Nettetal: Steyler, 1996, 120 pp., DM 28.00, ISBN 3 8050 0382 X.
Contrary to its rather grand and ambitious title, Afrika...
Historical Dictionary of Congo.(Review)
September 22, 1999... SAMUEL DECALO, VIRGINIA THOMPSON and RICHARD ADLOFF, Historical Dictionary of Congo. African Historical Dictionaries 69, Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996, 448 pp., US$79.50, ISBN 0 8108 3116 3.
The third edition of the volume on...
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)
September 22, 1999... BOUBACAR BARRY, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. African Studies 92, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 358 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 59226 7 hard covers, 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 59760 9 paperback....
L'Objectif subjectif: collections de photographies ethno-historiques en Suisse.(Review)
September 22, 1999... COMMISSION DES MUSEES DE LA SOCIETE SUISSE D'ETHNOLOGIE (ed.), L'Objectif subjectif: collections de photographies ethno-historiques en Suisse. Ethnologica Helvetica 20, Berne: Societe suisse d'ethnologie, 1997, 438 pp., ISBN 3 908111 07 2.
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Land is Coming up: the Burunge of central Tanzania and their environments.(Review)
September 22, 1999... WILHELM OSTBERG, Land is Coming up: the Burunge of central Tanzania and their environments. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology 34, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1995, 282.00 kroner, 258 pp., ISBN 91 7153 404 0 paperback.
This work...
The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1971.(Review)
September 22, 1999... ADOLPHE LINDER, The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1971. Basle: Basler Afrika Bibliogaphien, 1997, 527 pp., ISBN 3 905141 66 3.
The author is to be commended on his work, which is the result of detailed and source-based research....
Kwame Nkrumah: a case study of religion and politics in Ghana.(Review)
September 22, 1999... EBENEZER OBIRI ADDO, Kwame Nkrumah: a case study of religion and politics in Ghana. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1997, 235 pp., US$42.00, ISBN 0 7618 0785 3.
This book is a rather curious throwback to the 1960s when...
African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon's political crossroads.(Review)
September 22, 1999... J. TAKOUGANG and M. KRIEGER, African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon's political crossroads. Oxford: Westview Press, 1998, 283 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 8133 3428 4.
This book surveys current political science theorising...
BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... Achterberg, Angeline van. 1998. Out of the Shadows: the first African Indigenous Women's Conference. Amsterdam: NCIV, 15.00 [pounds sterling], 135 pp., ISBN 90 5727 020 9.
Bird, Richard, and Vaillancourt, Francois. 1999. Fiscal...
A QUESTION OF HONOUR: PROPERTY DISPUTES AND BROKERAGE IN BURKINA FASO.
September 22, 1999... Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. Shakespeare, Hamlet IV, 4
Les choses que l'honneur defend sont plus rigoureusement defendus, lorsque les lois ne...
Africa after the Cold War: the changing perspectives on security.(Review)
September 22, 1999... ADEBAYO OYEBADE and ABIODUN ALAO (eds), Africa after the Cold War: the changing perspectives on security. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 228 pp., US$21.95, ISBN 0 86543 651 7.
Africa after the Cold War looks at the different...
The Scramble for Art in Central Africa.(Review)
September 22, 1999... E. SCHILDKROUT and CURTIS A. KEIM (eds), The Scramble for Art in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 257 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling] (US$59.95), ISBN 0 521 58349 7 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling] (US$19.95), ISBN...
Food Security and Policy Interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the past two decades.(Review)
September 22, 1999... JOS SIJM, Food Security and Policy Interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the past two decades. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, 1997, 729 pp., 19.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 90 5538 025 3.
This is a large book--over 700 pages--on a...
La Legende noire de la Sanusiyya: une confrerie musulmane saharienne sous le regard francais, 1840-1930.(Review)
September 22, 1999... JEAN-LOUIS TRIAUD, La Legende noire de la Sanusiyya: une confrerie musulmane saharienne sous le regard francais, 1840-1930. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme; Aix-en-Provence: Institut de recherches et d'etudes sur le monde...