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Volume 55 - January 1985

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Reviews of Books

D. J. E. Maier, Priests and Power: the case of the Dente shrine in nineteenth-century Ghana, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983, 258 pp., £15.75.
Lynne Brydon
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07 December 2011, pp. 97-98
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Philippe Haeringer, Abidjan: au coin de la rue; éléments de la vie citadine dans la métropole ivoirienne. Sciences Humaines, vol. XIX, No. 4. Bondy: ORSTOM, 1983, 592 pp., ISSN 0008 0403.
Richard Rathbone
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07 December 2011, p. 343
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Christine Okali, Cocoa and Kinship in Ghana: the matrilineal Akan of Ghana, London: Kegan Paul for the International African Institute, 1983, 180 pp., £9.95.
Sara Berry
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07 December 2011, pp. 98-99
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P. Mayer (ed.), Black Villagers in an Industrial Society: anthropological perspectives on labour migration in southern Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1980, 369 pp., £13.95. - W. R. Böhning (ed.), Black Migration to South Africa: a selection of policy-oriented research. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1981, 184 pp., £5 paperback, £7.50 hardback.
S.D. Turner
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07 December 2011, pp. 214-217
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Paul Mosley, The Settler Economies: studies in the economic history of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900–63. African Studies Series, 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 290 pp., £25.00 ($49.50), ISBN 0 521 24339 4.
W. J. W. Bowring
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07 December 2011, p. 344
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Robert O. Collins, Shadows in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918–56. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983, 494 pp., £33.00.
John Tosh
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07 December 2011, p. 345
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Shula Marks and Richard Rathbone (eds.), Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture and consciousness, 1870–1930. London and New York: Longman, 1982, 394 pp., £5.95 paperback.
A. P. Cheater
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07 December 2011, pp. 217-219
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Andrew G. Onokerhoraye, Social Services in Nigeria: an introduction, London: Kegan Paul, 1984, 354 pp., £11.95.
S. I. Okafor
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07 December 2011, p. 100
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Finn Kjaerby, Problems and Contradictions in the Development of Ox Cultivation in Tanzania, Research Report No. 66, Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research, 1983, 163 pp., paperback.
Paul Starkey
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07 December 2011, pp. 100-101
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Energy and Development in Kenya: opportunities and constraints. Energy Environment and Development in Africa I, Stockholm: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1984, 186 pp., SEK 75, ISSN 0281 8515, ISBN 91 7106 225 4.
Bernard W. Riley
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07 December 2011, pp. 219-220
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E. Milingo (ed. Mona MacMillan), The World in Between: Christian healing and the struggle for spiritual survival. London: C. Hurst, and New York: Orbis Books, 1984, 138 pp., £3.95 paperback, ISBN 1 85065 005 5, £7.95 hardback, ISBN 1 85065 006 3.
Stephen Chan
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07 December 2011, pp. 345-346
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Jock McCulloch, Black Soul, White Artefact: Fanon's clinical psychology and social theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 250 pp., £22.50.
Pamela Reynolds
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07 December 2011, pp. 220-221
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Stephen Sandford, Management of Pastoral Development in the Third World.Chichester: Wiley, in association with the Overseas Development Institute, 1983. - James R. Simpson and Phylo Evangelou, Livestock Development in Subsaharan Africa: constraints, prospects, policy. Westview Replica Editions. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1984, 408 pp.
K. M. Homewood
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07 December 2011, pp. 346-348
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I. M. Lewis, Nationalism and Self-determination in the Horn of Africa, London: Ithaca Press, 1983, 226 pp., £6.
Herbert S. Lewis
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07 December 2011, pp. 101-103
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John Mack and Peter Robertshaw, Culture History in the Southern Sudan: Archaeology, Linguistics, Ethnohistory, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Memoir No. 8, London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, 179 pp., £15.
Douglas H. Johnson
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07 December 2011, pp. 103-104
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J. Salat, Reasoning as Enterprise: the anthropology of S. F. Nadel. Göttingen: Herodot, 1983, 188 pp., DM28.
J. Abbink
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07 December 2011, pp. 221-223
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Victor C. Uchendu (ed.), Dependency and Underdevelopment in West Africa, International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology No. 29, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980, 136 pp.
Dafe Otobo
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07 December 2011, pp. 349-351
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Jack Parson, Botswana: liberal democracy and the labor reserve in southern Africa. Boulder, Col., and London: Westview Press and Gower Publishing Co., 1984, 145 pp., £11.50.
R. F. Morton
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07 December 2011, p. 352
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David Henige, Oral Historiography. London: Longman, 1982, 150 pp., £3.95 paperback.
Abdullahi Mahadi
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07 December 2011, pp. 223-224
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John K. Thornton, The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641–1718, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983, 194 pp.
Phyllis M. Martin
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07 December 2011, pp. 104-105
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Volume 55 - January 1985

Reviews of Books

D. J. E. Maier, Priests and Power: the case of the Dente shrine in nineteenth-century Ghana, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983, 258 pp., £15.75.

Philippe Haeringer, Abidjan: au coin de la rue; éléments de la vie citadine dans la métropole ivoirienne. Sciences Humaines, vol. XIX, No. 4. Bondy: ORSTOM, 1983, 592 pp., ISSN 0008 0403.

Christine Okali, Cocoa and Kinship in Ghana: the matrilineal Akan of Ghana, London: Kegan Paul for the International African Institute, 1983, 180 pp., £9.95.

Paul Mosley, The Settler Economies: studies in the economic history of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900–63. African Studies Series, 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 290 pp., £25.00 ($49.50), ISBN 0 521 24339 4.

Robert O. Collins, Shadows in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918–56. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983, 494 pp., £33.00.

Shula Marks and Richard Rathbone (eds.), Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture and consciousness, 1870–1930. London and New York: Longman, 1982, 394 pp., £5.95 paperback.

Andrew G. Onokerhoraye, Social Services in Nigeria: an introduction, London: Kegan Paul, 1984, 354 pp., £11.95.

Finn Kjaerby, Problems and Contradictions in the Development of Ox Cultivation in Tanzania, Research Report No. 66, Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research, 1983, 163 pp., paperback.

Energy and Development in Kenya: opportunities and constraints. Energy Environment and Development in Africa I, Stockholm: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1984, 186 pp., SEK 75, ISSN 0281 8515, ISBN 91 7106 225 4.

E. Milingo (ed. Mona MacMillan), The World in Between: Christian healing and the struggle for spiritual survival. London: C. Hurst, and New York: Orbis Books, 1984, 138 pp., £3.95 paperback, ISBN 1 85065 005 5, £7.95 hardback, ISBN 1 85065 006 3.

Jock McCulloch, Black Soul, White Artefact: Fanon's clinical psychology and social theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 250 pp., £22.50.

I. M. Lewis, Nationalism and Self-determination in the Horn of Africa, London: Ithaca Press, 1983, 226 pp., £6.

John Mack and Peter Robertshaw, Culture History in the Southern Sudan: Archaeology, Linguistics, Ethnohistory, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Memoir No. 8, London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, 179 pp., £15.

J. Salat, Reasoning as Enterprise: the anthropology of S. F. Nadel. Göttingen: Herodot, 1983, 188 pp., DM28.

Victor C. Uchendu (ed.), Dependency and Underdevelopment in West Africa, International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology No. 29, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980, 136 pp.

Jack Parson, Botswana: liberal democracy and the labor reserve in southern Africa. Boulder, Col., and London: Westview Press and Gower Publishing Co., 1984, 145 pp., £11.50.

David Henige, Oral Historiography. London: Longman, 1982, 150 pp., £3.95 paperback.

John K. Thornton, The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641–1718, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983, 194 pp.

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