1,760円 "This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."ー Choice "Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh and blood in the '...

4,227円 Winner: Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award Honorable Mention: Bourdieu Best Book Award Shortlisted: Barrington Moore Book Award, Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, MSA First Book Award Finalist: C. Wright Mills Award How are histories of racial oppression dealt ...

4,510円 In scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with mass protests. While the country is lauded for its peaceful transition to democracy with citizenship for all, those previously disenfranchised, particularly women, remain outraged by their continued poverty an...

1,760円 When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes." The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national...

18円 Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between impe...

927円 The ‘scramble for Africa’ is underway. British colonists control territory between the Zambezi and Cape Colony. Only Zululand remains independent. The threat of invasion is ever present, and thirty thousand Zulu warriors stand ready to defend Cetshwayo, their king. Swazi princess Nomguqo Dlamini ...

1,594円 Winner of the 2024 Templeton Prize “The story of an almost unimaginable dialogue…an exploration of evil, innocence, and the gray spaces in between.”ーNew York Times “A startlingly personal account…written with clarity, energy, and enormous empathy”ーWashington Post A Mariner Books Classic Pumla G...

1,921円 Rhodes and his Banker is an account of the remarkable friendship between a larger-than-life historical figure and a modest, unassuming banker, both of whom were personally involved in all the major political and financial developments in Southern Africa during the closing decades of the 19th cent...

350円 Suid-Afrika. Sê vir die dokter waar Jan van Riebeeck aan jou gevat het. Die beginpunt van al ons moderne kwale. Kom vang 'n joyride saam met my deur ons vreeslike geskiedenis, en beleef die ups en downs van Suid-Afrika! Nie net in stereo nie (waar beskikbaar), maar in 'n taal wat nou glo op die...

1,600円 In A World Where The Odds Are Stacked Against Him, One Man Defies Destiny. Walking into this life with a severe bleeding disorder, the fragility of Cobus Visser's body challenged the possibility of a normal existence. From the family he was born into to the family he chose, Haemophilia stretched ...

1,983円 Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and managed ...

1,100円 عانت إثيوبيا، التي كانت تُعرف قديمًا بالحبشة، من طمع العديد من الدول الكبرى التي حاولت بسط نفوذها عليها بسبب موقعها المتميز. وكان الصراع الاستعماري بين الدول الكبرى، وخاصة إيطاليا، أبرز ملامح تاريخ إثيوبيا. في عام 1888، تصدى الملك منليك الثاني لمحاولة الغزو الإيطالية وألحق بها هزيمة ساحقة في معرك...