Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa, Hardcover - Koen Stroeken

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Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume make...

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Shari'a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yem...

In November 1949, Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu, the South African politician, Methodist lay preacher and retired professor of African languag...

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two Afric...

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On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a...

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Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers IncAuthor(s): Norman Robert BennettNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 33Cover t...

DescriptionIn this book, James W. Peterson and Jacek Lubecki construct a comparative framework through which to explore post-Cold War defense polic...

This is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival written in English, with a focus on its cultural, religious, and...

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Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing viol...

Reducere. This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the 116 bat species then known to be found in Southern a...

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This is the fascinating and important story of how God's Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo...

The book examines Spanish conquest and early colonialism from the vantage point of the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco, one of the most important c...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Retief MullerNumber of pages: 232Collection: Scottish Religious CulturesPublication date: 2021Dimen...

Publisher: Central European University PressIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175...

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Publisher: Jon CarpenterAuthor(s): Linda MajzlikNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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This book clarifies the ways in which the defense policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have responded to the new atmospher...

DescriptionTales of East Africa is a collection of 22 traditional tales from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Welcome to a world of magical adventure--...

DescriptionHow socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...