African Studies

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In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Where Women Work

A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home

By Niara Sudarkasa
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies
Series: Anthropological Papers Series

The Behavioral Ecology of Efe Pygmy Men in the Ituri Forest, Zaire

By Robert C. Bailey
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies
Series: Anthropological Papers Series

Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies

Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System

By J. Terrence McCabe
Subjects: Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, African Studies
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya

Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk

Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

By Denise Allen
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Islam and the Prayer Economy

History and Authority in a Malian Town

By Benjamin F. Soares
Subjects: African Studies, Anthropology, Religion, Islamic Studies

A close look at the changing terms of exchange between gifts and blessings

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

By Elisha Renne
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Economics, System -- Development

Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory

Kuria Cattle Raiders

Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier

By Michael L. Fleisher
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies

An ethnographic study of East African cattle raiding which critiques the policies of the postcolonial Tanzanian state

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs

Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields

By Pamela Lou Feldman-Savelsberg
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

Illuminates the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration through the social construction of female infertility

Innovation and Individuality in African Development

Changing Production Strategies in Rural Mali

By Dolores Koenig, Tieman Diarra, and Moussa Sow
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Directly confronts myths of an exotic Africa, full of insoluble problems

Intimate Fathers

The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care

By Barry S. Hewlett
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies

Freedom by a Hair's Breadth

Tsimihety in Madagascar

By Peter J. Wilson
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, History, Political Science

How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom

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