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African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / by Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza

Table of Contents: “…Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa -- Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa -- Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion -- Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities -- African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade -- Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins -- Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa -- Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa -- Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa -- Literature and decolonization in Africa -- Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises -- Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa -- Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.…”

African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / by Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza

Table of Contents: “…Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa -- Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa -- Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion -- Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities -- African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade -- Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins -- Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa -- Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa -- Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa -- Literature and decolonization in Africa -- Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises -- Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa -- Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.…”

A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…II: Western Africa -- West Atlantic Forests -- Akan Worlds -- The Yoruba and the Fon -- The Lower Niger -- Pt: III: Central Africa -- Cross River, Cameroon Grasslands, and Gabon -- The Western Congo Basin -- The Eastern Congo Basin -- Pt. …”
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A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…II: Western Africa -- West Atlantic Forests -- Akan Worlds -- The Yoruba and the Fon -- The Lower Niger -- Pt: III: Central Africa -- Cross River, Cameroon Grasslands, and Gabon -- The Western Congo Basin -- The Eastern Congo Basin -- Pt. …”
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Matriarchal societies studies on indigenous cultures across the globe / by Göttner-Abendroth, Heide, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A critical history of perspectives on matriarchy -- Matriarchy in Eastern India -- Matriarchal cults in Nepal -- Ancient queens realms, and group marriage in Tibet -- Matriarchal mountain peoples of China -- Women shamans in Korea -- The islands of Japan : women's cultures of the south and north -- "Alam Minangkabau" the world of the Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Matriarchal patterns in Melanesia -- Pacific Ocean cultures -- Matriarchal cultures in South America -- The spread of matriarchy to Central America -- North America : matriarchal immigrants from the South -- North America : at the cultural crossroads of South and North -- Matriarchy in India -- Ancient matriarchy in Central Africa -- Matriarchal queen-kingship in West Africa -- Matriarchal pastoral peoples in North Africa.…”
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Matriarchal societies studies on indigenous cultures across the globe / by Göttner-Abendroth, Heide, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A critical history of perspectives on matriarchy -- Matriarchy in Eastern India -- Matriarchal cults in Nepal -- Ancient queens realms, and group marriage in Tibet -- Matriarchal mountain peoples of China -- Women shamans in Korea -- The islands of Japan : women's cultures of the south and north -- "Alam Minangkabau" the world of the Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Matriarchal patterns in Melanesia -- Pacific Ocean cultures -- Matriarchal cultures in South America -- The spread of matriarchy to Central America -- North America : matriarchal immigrants from the South -- North America : at the cultural crossroads of South and North -- Matriarchy in India -- Ancient matriarchy in Central Africa -- Matriarchal queen-kingship in West Africa -- Matriarchal pastoral peoples in North Africa.…”
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Ruptures : Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil /

Table of Contents: “…Writing as Rupture:On Prophetic Invention in Central Africa…”
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Ruptures : Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil /

Table of Contents: “…Writing as Rupture:On Prophetic Invention in Central Africa…”
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Conflicting missions Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / by Gleijeses, Piero

Table of Contents: “…57 -- 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77 -- 6 Che in Zaire 1ol -- 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124 -- 7 American Victory 137 -- 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o -- 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185 -- 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214 -- 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230 -- 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246 -- 13 South Africa's Friends 273 -- 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300 -- 15 Cuban Victory 328 -- 16 Repercussions 347 -- 17 Looking Back 373 -- Appendix 397 -- Notes 399 -- Bibliography 503 -- Index 539.…”
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The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.…”
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Conflicting missions Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / by Gleijeses, Piero

Table of Contents: “…57 -- 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77 -- 6 Che in Zaire 1ol -- 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124 -- 7 American Victory 137 -- 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o -- 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185 -- 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214 -- 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230 -- 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246 -- 13 South Africa's Friends 273 -- 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300 -- 15 Cuban Victory 328 -- 16 Repercussions 347 -- 17 Looking Back 373 -- Appendix 397 -- Notes 399 -- Bibliography 503 -- Index 539.…”
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The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.…”
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The state of sovereignty territories, laws, populations /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- Sovereignty after socialism at Europe's new borders / Keith Brown -- Environmental security, spatial preservation, and state sovereignty in Central Africa / Kevin C. Dunn -- The paradox of sovereignty in the Balkans / Aida A. …”
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The state of sovereignty territories, laws, populations /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- Sovereignty after socialism at Europe's new borders / Keith Brown -- Environmental security, spatial preservation, and state sovereignty in Central Africa / Kevin C. Dunn -- The paradox of sovereignty in the Balkans / Aida A. …”
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Child slaves in the modern world

Table of Contents: “…Clarence-Smith, The redemption of child slaves by christian missionaries in central Africa, 1878/1914 -- Child slaves in the modern era -- Jonathan Blagbrough, "This is nothing but slavery": child domestic labor in the modern context -- Philip Whalen and Malika Id' Salah, Girls as domestic slaves in contemporary France -- Zosa de Sas Kropiwnicki, Strategic agents : adolescent prostitutes in Cape Town, South Africa -- Sarah Maguire, Children, slavery, and soldiering -- Mike Dottridge, Contemporary child slavery.…”
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Idriss Déby and the Darfur conflict / by Toïngar, Ésaïe, 1968-

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Child slaves in the modern world

Table of Contents: “…Clarence-Smith, The redemption of child slaves by christian missionaries in central Africa, 1878/1914 -- Child slaves in the modern era -- Jonathan Blagbrough, "This is nothing but slavery": child domestic labor in the modern context -- Philip Whalen and Malika Id' Salah, Girls as domestic slaves in contemporary France -- Zosa de Sas Kropiwnicki, Strategic agents : adolescent prostitutes in Cape Town, South Africa -- Sarah Maguire, Children, slavery, and soldiering -- Mike Dottridge, Contemporary child slavery.…”
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Idriss Déby and the Darfur conflict / by Toïngar, Ésaïe, 1968-

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Selling the Congo a history of European pro-empire propaganda and the making of Belgian imperialism / by Stanard, Matthew G.

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Selling the Congo a history of European pro-empire propaganda and the making of Belgian imperialism / by Stanard, Matthew G.

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