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Volume 31 - December 1988

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Book Reviews

C. George Kahama, T. L. Maliyamkono, and Stuart Wells. The Challenge for Tanzania's Economy. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Tanzania Publishing House, 1986. 384 pp. Figures, tables, index. No price given. Hardcover. - Issa G. Shivji Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Tanzania Publishing House, 1986. 268 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. No price given. Softcover. - Henry Bienen. Political Conflict and Economic Change in Nigeria. London and New Jersey: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1985. 180 pp. Hardcover.
Mulugeta Agonafer
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Betty Potash, Ed. Widows in Africa: Choices and Constraints. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. 309 pp. $35.00.
Alma Gottlieb
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23 May 2014, pp. 157-160
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Ladislav Holy. Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society: Descent, Succession and Inheritance Among the Toka of Zambia. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 1986, 233 pp.
Olga F. Linares
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23 May 2014, pp. 160-162
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Deborah Pellow and Naomi Chazan. Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty. Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; London: Gower, 1986. xvii, 238 pp. Figures, index, maps, photographs, selected bibliography, tables, $28.50.
Kathryn Green
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23 May 2014, pp. 167-169
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Wim van Binsbergen and Peter Geschiere, eds. Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
Irving Leonard Markovits
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23 May 2014, pp. 162-166
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Paul D. Wiebe and Cole P. Dodge, eds. Beyond Crisis: Development Issues in Uganda. Kampala/Los Angeles: Makerere Institute of Social Research/African Studies Association, 1987. xii + 158 pp. Maps, index. $16.50, paperback.
Stephen Isabirye
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23 May 2014, pp. 169-170
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Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson. The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Janice E. Weaver
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23 May 2014, pp. 166-167
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Enyinna Chuta and Carl Liedholm. Employment and Growth in Small-Scale Industry: Empirical Evidence and Policy Assessments from Sierra Leone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. pp. 152. Notes, bibliography, and index.
E. Philip Morgan
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23 May 2014, pp. 170-172
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N. Bricas, G. Courade, J. Coussy, Ph. Hugon, and J. Muchnik, eds. Nourrir Les Villes en Afrique Sub-Saharienne. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1985. 421 pages.
Jane I. Guyer
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23 May 2014, pp. 172-174
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Paul E. Lovejoy, ed. Africans in Bondage. Madison, Wisconsin: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.
Janice E. Weaver
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23 May 2014, pp. 167-168
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Dov Ronen, ed. Democracy and Pluralism in Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.; Kent, Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton Educational, 1986. 220 pages.
Peter J. Schraeder
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23 May 2014, pp. 174-176
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Book Reviews - Graham Connah. African Civilizations. Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: an Archaeological Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 1987. $44.50 cloth; $15.95 paper.
Pamela R. Willoughby
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23 May 2014, pp. 168-170
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Book Reviews - Igor Kopytoff, ed. The African Frontier. The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. 288 pp. - Toyin Falola, ed. Britain and Nigeria: Exploitation or Development? London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987. 250 pp.
F. K. Ekechi
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Irving Leonard Markovitz, ed. Studies in Power and Class in Africa. New York, Oxford University Press, 1987. 400 pages. Maps, tables, bibliography, index.
Edgar Winans
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23 May 2014, pp. 176-177
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Book Reviews - J. Isawa Elaigwu. Gowon: The Biography of a Soldier-Statesman. Ibadan: West Books Publisher Ltd., 1986, 306 pp.
Thomas P. Ofcansky
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23 May 2014, pp. 173-174
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ASR volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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Book Reviews - Robert W. July, An African Voice: The Role of the Humanities in African Independence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987. 270 pp. $22.50 cloth; $10.95 paper.
Milton Krieger
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23 May 2014, pp. 174-177
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Book Reviews - Victor Bachy. Le cinéma au Gabon. Brussels: OCIC, 1986. 156 pp. paperback.
Nancy J. Schmidt
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23 May 2014, pp. 178-179
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Book Reviews - Theodore H. von Laue, The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Daniel R. Headrick
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Betty Potash, Ed. Widows in Africa: Choices and Constraints. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. 309 pp. $35.00.

Ladislav Holy. Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society: Descent, Succession and Inheritance Among the Toka of Zambia. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 1986, 233 pp.

Deborah Pellow and Naomi Chazan. Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty. Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; London: Gower, 1986. xvii, 238 pp. Figures, index, maps, photographs, selected bibliography, tables, $28.50.

Wim van Binsbergen and Peter Geschiere, eds. Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

Paul D. Wiebe and Cole P. Dodge, eds. Beyond Crisis: Development Issues in Uganda. Kampala/Los Angeles: Makerere Institute of Social Research/African Studies Association, 1987. xii + 158 pp. Maps, index. $16.50, paperback.

Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson. The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Enyinna Chuta and Carl Liedholm. Employment and Growth in Small-Scale Industry: Empirical Evidence and Policy Assessments from Sierra Leone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. pp. 152. Notes, bibliography, and index.

N. Bricas, G. Courade, J. Coussy, Ph. Hugon, and J. Muchnik, eds. Nourrir Les Villes en Afrique Sub-Saharienne. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1985. 421 pages.

Paul E. Lovejoy, ed. Africans in Bondage. Madison, Wisconsin: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.

Dov Ronen, ed. Democracy and Pluralism in Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.; Kent, Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton Educational, 1986. 220 pages.

Book Reviews - Graham Connah. African Civilizations. Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: an Archaeological Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 1987. $44.50 cloth; $15.95 paper.

Book Reviews - Igor Kopytoff, ed. The African Frontier. The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. 288 pp. - Toyin Falola, ed. Britain and Nigeria: Exploitation or Development? London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987. 250 pp.

Irving Leonard Markovitz, ed. Studies in Power and Class in Africa. New York, Oxford University Press, 1987. 400 pages. Maps, tables, bibliography, index.

Book Reviews - J. Isawa Elaigwu. Gowon: The Biography of a Soldier-Statesman. Ibadan: West Books Publisher Ltd., 1986, 306 pp.

Front matter

ASR volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

Back matter

ASR volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

Book Reviews

Book Reviews - Robert W. July, An African Voice: The Role of the Humanities in African Independence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987. 270 pp. $22.50 cloth; $10.95 paper.

Book Reviews - Victor Bachy. Le cinéma au Gabon. Brussels: OCIC, 1986. 156 pp. paperback.

Book Reviews - Theodore H. von Laue, The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

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