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65 produkter
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith
Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania
Häftad, 2024
519 kr
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Christian and Muslim schools have become important target points in families and pupils' quests for new study opportunities and securing a 'good life' in Tanzania. These schools combine secular education with the moral (self-)formation of young people, triggering new realignments of the fields of …
Decolonizing Heritage
Time to Repair in Senegal
Häftad, 2024
519 kr
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Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine …
Pandemic Kinship
Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS
Inbunden, 2022
1362 kr
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Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like …
Water and Aid in Mozambique
Gendered Perspectives of Change
Inbunden, 2022
1351 kr
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Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to …
Water and Aid in Mozambique
Gendered Perspectives of Change
Häftad, 2024
519 kr
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Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to …
Inventing an African Alphabet
Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC
Inbunden, 2023
1423 kr
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In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (1958-2013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now has thousands of learners in not only the Democratic Republic of Congo, but also France, Angola and many other countries. Drawing upon Ramon Sarró's …
Relative Distance
Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Inbunden, 2023
1408 kr
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The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, …
Relative Distance
Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, …
Dress Cultures in Zambia
Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia and regional scholarship, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant history of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Exploring how the dressed body serves as the point of contact between personal, local, and global …
Dress Cultures in Zambia
Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2023
1733 kr
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Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia and regional scholarship, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant history of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Exploring how the dressed body serves as the point of contact between personal, local, and global …
Disability and Distribution
Becoming a Valuable Person in Kinshasa
Häftad, 2026
496 kr
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Set in the postcolonial city of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnography explores how people with disabilities navigate debates about the just distribution of resources where there is little state organised welfare, and public perception of disability swings between the 'deserving' and 'undeserving'. …
Disability and Distribution
Becoming a Valuable Person in Kinshasa
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
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Set in the postcolonial city of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnography explores how people with disabilities navigate debates about the just distribution of resources where there is little state organised welfare, and public perception of disability swings between the 'deserving' and 'undeserving'. …
Fashioning Futures
Uncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
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Through vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in Calabar, southeastern Nigeria, to realise respectable futures. Exploring young women's daily activities across different sites from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, …
Fashioning Futures
Uncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria
Häftad, 2026
496 kr
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Through vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in Calabar, southeastern Nigeria, to realise respectable futures. Exploring young women's daily activities across different sites from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, …
Peasants to Paupers
Land, Class, and Kinship in Central Kenya
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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On the northern periphery of Nairobi, in southern Kiambu County, the city's expansion into a landscape of poor smallholders is bringing new opportunities, dilemmas, and conflicts. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Peter Lockwood examines how Kiambu's 'workers with patches of land' …
Nuer Messianic Judaism
Truth and Mediation in the Ethiopia-South Sudan Borderlands
Av Yotam Gidron
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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The Messianic Jews of Ethiopia's Gambella region are Evangelical Christian Zionists who adhere to various Jewish practices and understand their faith as authentically emulating the faith of the first followers of Jesus Christ. Drawing on over a year of ethnographic research in this region, Yotam …
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
Av Krijn Peters, Stephanie Kitchen
Inbunden, 2011
1348 kr
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The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are …
AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa
Inbunden, 2011
1628 kr
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This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed - and possibly even been counterproductive. It does so through a series of ethnographic encounters, from kings to condoms, …
Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa
Av Isak Niehaus
Inbunden, 2012
987 kr
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Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age in rural South Africa during apartheid, then studied at university and worked as a teacher during the anti-apartheid struggle. In 2005, Jimmy died …
Inside African Anthropology
Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
Av Andrew Bank, Leslie J. Bank
Inbunden, 2013
997 kr
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Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal …
Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia
The Tablighi Jama'at
Inbunden, 2013
1814 kr
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This monograph deals with the sweeping emergence of the Tablighi Jama'at - a transnational Islamic missionary movement that has its origins in the reformist tradition that emerged in India in the mid-nineteenth century - in the Gambia in the past decade. It explores how a movement that originated …
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Av Joel Cabrita
Inbunden, 2014
1312 kr
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Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has …
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa
A Church of Strangers
Inbunden, 2014
1575 kr
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be …
The Politics of Heritage in Africa
Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
Av Derek R. Peterson, Kodzo Gavua m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1641 kr
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Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government …
Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-Present
Inbunden, 2015
1526 kr
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Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as 'Fofie', which derived their legitimacy from …
Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms
The Roots of Impermanence
Av Maxim Bolt
Inbunden, 2015
1529 kr
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During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the …
Pioneers of the Field
South Africa's Women Anthropologists
Av Andrew Bank
Inbunden, 2016
1691 kr
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Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women through the use of a rich cocktail of …
Salafism in Nigeria
Islam, Preaching, and Politics
Inbunden, 2016
1628 kr
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The spectre of Boko Haram and its activities in Nigeria dominates both media and academic analysis of Islam in the region. But, as Alexander Thurston argues here, beyond the sensational headlines this group generates, the dynamics of Muslim life in northern Nigeria remain poorly understood. Drawing …
After Rape
Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda
Av Holly Porter
Inbunden, 2016
1628 kr
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Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration …
AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa
Häftad, 2014
455 kr
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This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed - and possibly even been counterproductive. It does so through a series of ethnographic encounters, from kings to condoms, …
