Volume 60 - December 2017
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
BOOK REVIEWS
Andrew Bank. Pioneers of the Field: South Africa’s Women Anthropologists. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii + 319 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-15049-2.
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- 15 August 2017, pp. 231-233
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OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AFRICA AND ECONOMICS: PROCEED WITH CAUTION - Celestin Monga and Justin Yifu Lin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics. Volume I: Contexts and Concepts; Volume II: Policies and Practices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Volume I: xxxi + 831 pp. Volume II: xxxviii + 950 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Name Index. Subject Index. $300.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–0199687114; 9780199687107.
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- 02 October 2017, pp. 230-235
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Katrina Thompson. Popobawa: Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings. Bloomington: Indiana University, 2017. xii + 226 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0253024565.
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- 11 October 2017, pp. 237-239
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HISTORY
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Baruch Hirson. Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto School Children’s Revolt That Shook Apartheid. Foreword by Shula Marks. London: Zed Books, 2016. 2nd revised edition. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Chronology of Events. Bibliography. Index. xv + 350 pp. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-78360-896-6. - Julian Brown. The Road to Soweto Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2016. v + 204 pp. Acknowledgments. A Note on Language. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-847-01141-1.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 203-205
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Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. The Truth About Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xix + 223 pp. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-42491-0.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 233-234
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Neil Carrier. Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi’s Global Somali Hub. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xx + 313 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $31.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780190646202.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 234-236
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Stephen Ellis. This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xv + 313 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780190494315.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 205-207
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Paul Lovejoy. Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. xix + 396 pp. Photographs. Glossary. Orthography. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821422410.
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- 11 October 2017, pp. 239-240
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Mike McGovern. A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xxi + 249 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-226-45357-6. $30.00 Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-45360-6. $30.00. E-book. ISBN: 978-0-226-45374-3.
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- 11 October 2017, pp. 241-242
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Garth Myers. Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics. Bristol, U.K.: Policy Press, 2016. Contents. List of Figures and Tables. List of Abbreviations. Glossary of Foreign Terms. Acknowledgments. References. Index. $42.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4473-2292-4.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 236-238
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Julie MacArthur. Cartography and the Political Imagination. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. xiii + 340 pp. Acknowledgments. Maps and Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2210-6.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 207-209
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Yuka Suzuki. The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xxii + 210 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0295999548.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 239-240
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Hannah Whittaker. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya. Leiden: Brill, 2015. ix + 178 pp. Acknowledgments. Maps. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper. ISBN 978-90-04-28267-4.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 209-210
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LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Holly Porter. After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii + 255 pp. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107180048.
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- 10 October 2017, pp. 243-244
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Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo. Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. xx + 244 pp. Maps. List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. Time Line. $22.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-89680-300-8.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 211-212
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Richard Reid. A History of Modern Uganda. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Contents. Explanations, Apologies and Acknowledgements. Maps. Glossary. Sources and Bibliography. Index. xxvi + 403 pp. No price reported. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-107-67112-6.
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- 19 July 2017, pp. 240-242
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GENDER
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Balhis Badri and Aili Marie Tripp, eds. Women’s Activism in Africa: Struggles for Rights and Representation. London: Zed Books, 2017. vi + 250 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-78360-908-6.
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- 02 October 2017, pp. 245-246
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Charles Laurie. The Land Reform Deception: Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe’s Land Seizure Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvi + 398 pp. Acknowledgments. Figures. Tables. Map. Notes. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-939829-4.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 212-214
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HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Kristen E. Cheney. Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. 239 pp. Contents. Abbreviations. Acknowledgments. Notes. References. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-43754-5. - Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins. A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. xvi + 280 pp. Contents. Preface. Acknowledgments. Notes. References. Index. $35.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-691-17392-4.
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- 02 October 2017, pp. 246-250
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Stuart A. Marks. Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identity and Illusions on an African Landscape. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. xi + 504 pp. Maps. List of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. Abbreviations and Glossary. Afterword. References. Index. $150.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-78533-157-2.
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- 12 July 2017, pp. 242-244
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