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African Studies



link to catalog page DANIEL, Dancing Wisdom

Dancing Wisdom

Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé

Author: Yvonne Daniel
Pub Date: September 2005

Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances   learn more...

link to catalog page BELLEGARDE-SMITH, Fragments of Bone

Fragments of Bone

Neo-African Religions in a New World

Author: Edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Pub Date: July 2005

African religions as adapted and recontextualized in various New World environments   learn more...

link to catalog page JAMES, Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood Author: Edited by Stanlie M. James and Claire C. Robertson
Pub Date: Cloth: 2002; Paper: 2005

A powerful challenge to Western representations of female genital cutting   learn more...

link to catalog page BRITTON, Women in the South African Parliament

Women in the South African Parliament

From Resistance to Governance

Author: Hannah Evelyn Britton
Pub Date: August 2005

The play-by-play account of how South African women gained national office, secured constitutional protection, and won legislative reform   learn more...

link to catalog page WAETJEN, Workers and Warriors

Workers and Warriors

Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa

Author: Thembisa Waetjen
Pub Date: June 2004

Using South Africa as a case study this book explores how the politics of masculinity and gender power are at the heart of tensions in nation building   learn more...

link to catalog page COCK, Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations

Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations

Conversations about Difference in the United States and South Africa

Author: Jacklyn Cock and Alison Bernstein
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page JULES-ROSETTE, Black Paris

Black Paris

The African Writers' Landscape

Author: Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2000

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link to catalog page MARTIN, Out of One, Many Africas

Out of One, Many Africas

Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa

Author: Edited by William G. Martin and Michael O. West
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1999

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link to catalog page JOHNSON-ODIM, For Women and the Nation

For Women and the Nation

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria

Author: Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Nina Emma Mba
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1997

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link to catalog page OLMSTEAD, Woman between Two Worlds

Woman between Two Worlds

Portrait of an Ethiopian Rural Leader

Author: Judith Olmstead
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1997

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