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Sub-Saharan Africa
Paperback. Describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. This book asks What criteria determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship? Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26ill. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Underlined
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520046337
- ISBN
- 9780520046337
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.60
€ 37.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. Testimonies of slavery and the slave trade Num Pages: 300 pages, 9 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1HFD; C; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222947
- ISBN
- 9780253222947
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Paperback. By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, this work explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. It concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 b&w photos, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; GTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217868
- ISBN
- 9780253217868
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
Paperback. Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Childs, Matt D. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 b&w photos, 8 figures, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1K; GTB; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217165
- ISBN
- 9780253217165
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
€ 33.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. This title uncovers what is at stake in the various confessions and why Chitepo's assassination incites conflict and controversy in Zimbabwe's politics. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; HBJH; HBLW3; JPWL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216083
- ISBN
- 9780253216083
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.17
€ 18.99
€ 18.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, 10 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTV; JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021397
- ISBN
- 9780253021397
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.32
€ 38.99
€ 35.32
Paperback. Single White Female falls in love with a polygamous West African shaman and explores his indigenous spirituality. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; BM; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782799481
- ISBN
- 9781782799481
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.12
€ 15.99
€ 15.12
Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; BT; HBTZ; JFSL1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 259 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780914671534
- ISBN
- 9780914671534
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 12.03
€ 12.99
€ 12.03
Paperback. In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. Here, he offers his reminiscences revisiting the site of his fieldwork from the 1970s. Num Pages: 232 pages, 23 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333135
- ISBN
- 9780822333135
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.81
€ 30.99
€ 27.81
Paperback. Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community. The author examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment? Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; LAFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226153865
- ISBN
- 9780226153865
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.12
€ 33.99
€ 27.12
Hardback. From 1952 to 1981, South Africa's apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and politics that circulated through a small school, housed in a remote former mission station. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 3JJP; ACX; HBTB; JNB; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1293.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422519
- ISBN
- 9780821422519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.05
€ 114.05
Paperback. The social dynamics of global polio eradication Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 color illus., 6 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222282
- ISBN
- 9780253222282
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.83
€ 29.99
€ 26.83
Paperback. A scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition. l Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music. Num Pages: 334 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; AVGH; JFSL; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226043791
- ISBN
- 9780226043791
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.88
€ 20.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. Aiming to identify sustainable strategies - rather than upholding an a priori vision of an ideal city, this publication highlights questions of method and procedure that can be transferred to other 'cities of change', and covers developments, such as the influence of China in African countries or the chances of high-density, low-rise developments. Editor(s): Angelil, Marc; Hebel, Dirk. Num Pages: 256 pages, 151 black & white illustrations, 473 colour illustrations, 151 schw.-w. u. 473 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 270 x 210. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd and rev. ed.
- SKU
- V9783035608045
- ISBN
- 9783035608045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 47.23
€ 50.99
€ 47.23
Hardcover. Uses a range of narratives to explore contemporary South African culture and illuminate a cultural 'state of the nation' in terms of violence, gender, human rights and democracy. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFE; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846312137
- ISBN
- 9781846312137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.71
€ 135.71
Paperback. A pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democracies Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 1KLCN; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592138296
- ISBN
- 9781592138296
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.35
€ 37.99
€ 34.35
Hardback. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the linguistically and geographically diverse regions of the world. As in the rest of the world, deaf people live throughout sub-Saharan communities. This is a research on sub-Saharan signed languages and deaf community, organizing has created the opportunity to gather together and the perspectives presented herein. Editor(s): Cooper, Audrey C.; Rashid, Khadijat K. Num Pages: 232 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1HF; CFZ; JFFG; JFSL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 70 x 100 x 15. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686344
- ISBN
- 9781563686344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Hardback. Reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 photographs, 11 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686320
- ISBN
- 9781563686320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.50
€ 58.50
Paperback. Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus"; reflections on the representation of a black female icon Editor(s): Willis, Deborah. Num Pages: 256 pages, 42 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1HFM; 1K; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781439902059
- ISBN
- 9781439902059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.77
€ 45.99
€ 40.77
Hardback. A look at how West African and Caribbean Francophone writers use rhythm, music, and sound to create and negotiate identity Series: African Soundscapes Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1KJ; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- American Literatures Initiative
- SKU
- V9781439900314
- ISBN
- 9781439900314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.73
€ 59.73