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A History of Ethiopia

by Harold G. Marcus
Publisher: University of California Press (1995-10-30)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 277 pages
SKU: 83670
Condition: G+

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"A very ambitious work. . . . Its readability will insure a wide audience. . . . Specialists will be alternately outraged, amused, engaged, and challenged."--James McCann, Boston University

History of Northern Botswana 1850-1910

by J. Mutero Chirenje
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (1976-06)
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 316 pages
Edition: 1St Edition
SKU: 65844
Condition: VG / VG

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Africa Solo: A Journey Across the Sahara, Sahel and Congo

by Kevin Kertscher
Publisher: Steerforth Press (1998-04-25)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 220 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 79708
Condition: G+

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Feeling the need to reorient his inner compass, filmmaker Kevin Kertscher set out on a personal journey across large expanses of the African continent.

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Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom (Near Eastern Center, UCLA)

by Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher: University of California Press (1978-03-21)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 254 pages
SKU: 63083
Condition: FAIR

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Chronologically arranged translations of ancient Egyptian writings shed light upon the development of diverse literary forms. Bibliogs.

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Colonial South Africa: Origins Racial Order

by Tim Keegan
Publisher: Continuum (1997-01-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 382 pages
SKU: 76849
Condition: G+

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This work looks at the period of South African history before the "mineral age", and particularly the years of British rule up to the 1850s, and establishes its importance in the shaping of South African society. It argues that the roots of the 20th-century racial state lie in this period, when the Cape was first integrated into the British empire of free trade.

The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (Anthropology of Form and Meaning)

by Marc R. Schloss
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (1988-05-01)
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 178 pages
Edition: First Edition
SKU: 84256
Condition: VG / VG

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The ritual complexes of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal, embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained in Ehing culture by the concept of Odieng ("hatchet"), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc Schloss's ethnography of the Ehing is a study of the meaning of Odieng's power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.