Volume 41 - April 1998
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Anthropology and Sociology
Book Reviews
Susan Kent, ed. Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers. Cambridge, New York & Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 344 pp. Charts. Tables. Maps. Photos. Notes. $59.95. Cloth.
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Health and Disease
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Sandra Wallman. Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS. London: James Currey, 1996. 246pp. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Tables. Figures. No price reported. Paper.
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Anthropology and Sociology
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Magdalena K Rwebangira. The Legal Status of Women and Poverty in Tanzania. Research Report 100. Uppsala, Sweden: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1996. 58 pp. Bibliography. No price reported. Paper.
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History
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Brian Titley. Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa. Montreal & Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. xvii + 257 pp. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth.
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M.G. Smith. Government in Kano, 1350–1950. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. xxiii + 594 pp. Foreword by Murray Last. 3 maps. Notes. Index. $85. Cloth.
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Bibliographies and Dictionaries
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Gretchen Walsh. The Media in Africa and Africa in the Media: An Annotated Bibliography. London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1996. xxv + 291 pp. Indexes. $80. Cloth.
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History
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Richard L. Roberts. Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional Economy in the French Soudan, 1800–1946. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. vii + 381 pp. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Tables. $55.00. Cloth.
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Economics and Development
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Joseph Semboja and Ole Therkildsen, eds. Service Provision under Stress in East Africa: The State, NGOs and People's Organizations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. xiv + 242 pp. Tables. Maps. Index. $70. Cloth. $30. Paper.
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History
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B. Marie Perinbam. Family Identity & the State in the Bamako Kafu, c.1800–c.1900. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. x + 341 pp. Index. Cloth. $60.00.
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Economics and Development
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Samuel M Muriithi. African Development Dilemma. The Big Debate. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. 128 pp. Bibliography. Index. $47.50. Cloth. $24.50. Paper.
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History
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Paul E. H. Hair. Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence 1450–1700. Aldershot/Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, Ashgate, 1997. xx + 324pp. Index. $94.95. Cloth.
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Geography, Environment, and Demography
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James L Newman. The Peopling of Africa: a Geographical Interpretation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. xiv + 235 pp. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $35.00. Cloth. $15.00. Paper.
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Jonathan Adams and Thomas McShane. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 282 pp. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper.
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History
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Donald R. Wright. The World and a Very Small Place in Africa. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. 168 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. $62.95. Cloth.
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Geography, Environment, and Demography
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Susanna Davies. Adaptable Livelihoods: Coping with Food Insecurity in the Malian Sahel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xxii + 335 pp. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Graphs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. - Siri Damman. Sécurité alimentaire et stratégies de maîtrise chez les pêcheurs du delta intérieur du fleuve Niger au Mali. Trans, from Norwegian by Yves Boutroue. Oslo: Lobo Grafisk as, Postboks, 1997. 154 pp. Maps. Tables. Charts. Notes. Bibliography. No price reported.
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History
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Theodor Leutwein. Elf jahre Houverneur in Deutsch-Sudwestafrika. Windhoek: Namibia Scientific Society, 1997. 589 pp. - Herman Tonjes. Ovamboland: Country, People, Mission. Trans. P. Reiner.. Windhoek, Namibia Scientific Society, 1996. 283 pp.
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Julia A. Clancy-Smith. Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxiii + 370 pp. Bibliography. Chronology. Glossary. Maps. Index. $16.95 Paper.
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Geography, Environment, and Demography
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Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 344 pp. Index. Endnotes. $55.00 Cloth. $19.95. Paper.
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Literature and the Arts
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Claude Daniel Ardouin. Museums and Archaeology in West Africa. Oxford: James Currey and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, on behalf of the West African Museums Programme in association with the International African Institute, 1997. Photographs. References. Index. $24.95. Cloth.
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Health and Disease
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Jan Hoorweg, Dick Foeken, and Wijnand Klaver. Seasons and Nutrition at the Kenya Coast. Leiden: Leiden African Studies Centre, 1995. xi + 144 pp. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Tables. $38.95. Paper.
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