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Title Perspectives on Africa : a reader in culture, history, and representation / edited and introduced by Roy Richard Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass : Blackwell, 1997.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.096 P467P    Check Shelf
Description xxxi, 736 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents From tribe to ethnicity : kinship and social organization -- Economics as a cultural system -- Hunter-gatherer studies in Africa : the Mbuti, the!Kung San, and current debates -- Witchcraft, science, and rationality : the translation of cutlure -- Ancestors, gods, and the philosophy of religion -- Arts and aesthetics -- Sex and gender studies in Africa -- Europe in Africa : colonization -- Nations and nationalism -- Representation and discourse.
Subject Ethnology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social life and customs.
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Africa, Sub-Saharan. (OCoLC)fst01239520
Added Author Grinker, Roy Richard, 1961-
Steiner, Christopher Burghard.
ISBN 1557866856 (acid-free paper)
9781557866851 (acid-free paper)
1557866864 (pbk.) (acid-free paper)
9781557866868 (pbk.) (acid-free paper)
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