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  • Culture and Customs of Mali

    by Dorothea E. Schulz Ph.D. ...
    Series series Culture and Customs of Africa
    Touching on everything from its rich musical heritage to its varied cultural traditions, this is a thorough and accessible introduction to the contemporary lives of the different peoples who call Mali their home.Rated among the world's ten poorest nations, Mali has a glorious past and a less-certain present. Culture and Customs of Mali touches on the first as background for understanding the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    by Philip Oldenburg ...
    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Africa

    Edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara ...
    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal

    Edited by Mamadou Diouf ...
    Series Book 15 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Istanbul

    Between the Global and the Local

    by Ayfer Bartu, Tanil Bora, Sema Erder, Ayse Oncu, Martin Stokes, Jenny White, Yael Navaro-Yasin ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these clichés lies a complex reality as Istanbulites simultaneously try to accommodate, understand, challenge, and shape the sweeping transformations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Hausa of Nigeria

    by Frank A. Salamone ...
    The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. It is an ethnographic reflection of intense field work in Yauri and the surrounding areas that border it, as well as many trips to archives, libraries, and interview sites. It is also the result of discussions with colleagues, especially Salamone's mentor, Charles ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Muslim Families in Global Senegal

    Money Takes Care of Shame

    by Beth Buggenhagen ...
    "A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar . . . [an] extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks." —Robert Launay, Northwestern UniversitySenegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in Global Senegal focuses on trade and the transmission of enduring social value though cloth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embodying Colonial Memories

    Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa

    by Paul Stoller ...
    A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Saharan Frontiers

    Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

    Edited by James McDougall, Judith Scheele ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Makes a compelling case for the importance of Saharan history, both in its own right and in its articulations with the histories of other regions." — American EthnologistThe Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Time of Oil

    Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town

    by Mandana Limbert ...
    Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    by Partha Chatterjee ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD