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Showing posts with label West Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Africa. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Living in a landscape of scarcity: Materiality and cosmology in WestAfrica
10:50 AM
In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily ...
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
4:50 AM
"The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commen...
Saturday, September 26, 2015
The Political Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
10:28 AM
This work contributes to the fields of political science, sociology, development, economics, and international relations to furnish an un...
Friday, September 18, 2015
Handbook of West African Art
11:20 AM
This handbook was originally assembled as a catalogue for use with a special exhibit of West African art shown at the Milwaukee Public Mus...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City
5:49 AM
In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the ...
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African MarketWomen
8:10 AM
In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of...
Friday, April 17, 2015
Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
4:09 PM
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past d...
Friday, January 9, 2015
Sacrificial Ceremonies of SanterÃa: A Complete Guide to the Rituals and Practices
6:25 PM
The first book to explore the history, methods, and thinking behind sacrifice in the growing SanterÃa faith • Explains the animal sacrifi...
Saturday, November 29, 2014
West African Contributions to Science and Technology
3:10 PM
When West Africa is mentioned in a historical context, it is usually presented as the traditional hunting ground for slaves. Very few writ...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Magical Realism in West African Fiction
8:49 AM
This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its ...
Monday, October 20, 2014
How to Play Djembe
4:22 PM
This book is a complete, step-by-step, user friendly course on how to play djembe. Right from the start, in addition to learning how to m...
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Benin/Dahomey
burkina faso
Business
Economics
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Ivory Coast
Mali
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Niger
Senegal
togo
West Africa
Business Opportunities in Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Togo, Niger, Upper Volta, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali by the US Department of Commerce Trade Mission
1:12 PM
African Religious Traditions
African Systems of Kinship
Culture
Ghana
Government
Language
Law
Music
Oral tradition
West Africa
The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, etc by A.B. Ellis
11:24 AM
African Religious Traditions
Anthropology
Benin/Dahomey
Christianity
Colonialism
Culture
Imperialism
religion
slavery
West Africa
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome Vol 1 by Richard Burton
11:14 AM
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture
4:51 AM
West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Kei...
Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa
4:43 AM
The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only...
Friday, June 27, 2014
Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjuring with Herbs
2:01 PM
Hoodoo is an eclectic blend of African traditions, Native American herbalism, Judeo-Christian ritual, and magical healing. Tracing Hoodoo...
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