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African studies
from the University of Chicago Press
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General interest books
African studies
- Abusharaf, Mustafa Rogaia: Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
- Apter, Andrew: Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa
- Argenti, Nicolas: The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields
- Ashforth, Adam: Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
- Attridge, Derek: J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event
- Bayart, Jean-Francois: The Illusion of Cultural Identity
- Blier, Suzanne Preston: African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power
- Bodleian Library: The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against
- Brown, David H.: Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion
- Cheney, E. Kristen: Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development
- Coe, Cati: Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge
- Cole, Jennifer: Love in Africa
- Comaroff, Jean: Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People
- Comaroff, John L.: Ethnicity, Inc.
- Comaroff, Jean: Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
- Dube, Musa W.: The HIV and AIDS Bible: Selected Essays
- Finnegan, Ruth: The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa
- Geschiere, Peter: The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe
- Good, Charles M.: The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier
- Hansen, Karen Tranberg: Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
- Henley, Paul: The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
- Holsey, Bayo: Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana
- Jensen, Steffen: Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town
- Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer: Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
- Katongole, Emmanuel M.: A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination
- Keller, Richard C.: Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa
- Kelly, Debra: Autobiography and Independence: Self and Identity in North African Writing in French
- Levine, Donald N.: Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
- Lubkemann, C. Stephen: Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War
- Magubane, Zine: Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
- Malkki, Liisa H.: Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
- Marshall, Ruth: Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria
- Mutongi, Kenda: Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya
- Nelson, Steven: From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa
- Pellow, Deborah: Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community
- Piot, Charles: Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa
- Porter, Philip W.: Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania
- Randrianja, Solofo: Madagascar: A Short History
- Shapiro, David: Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility
- Shaw, Rosalind: Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
- Smith, James Howard: Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya
- Steinmetz, George: The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa
- Stoller, Paul: The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch
- Stoller, Paul: Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger
- Strother, Z. S.: Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende
- Sumaila, Ussif Rashid: Namibia's Fisheries: Ecological, Economic, and Social Aspects
- Szalay, Miklós: The Moon as Shoe: Drawings of the San
- Wenzel, Jennifer: Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond
- West, Harry G.: Ethnographic Sorcery
- West, Harry G.: Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique
- Wilder, Gary: The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars
- Wilmsen, Edwin N.: Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari
African music
- Askew, Kelly: Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
- Berliner, Paul F.: The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe
- Charry, Eric: Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa
- Chernoff, John Miller: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
- Coplan, David B.: In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition
- Friedson, M. Steven : Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
- Friedson, M. Steven : Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land
- Klein, L. Debra: Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
- Muller, Carol Ann: Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa
- Turino, Thomas: Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe
- Waterman, Christopher Alan: Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
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