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Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Compiling various perspectives from borderlands across the SADC region, Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern A...
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates...
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Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices explores how local development interventions related to witchcraft...
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Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa,...
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Hunters among Farmers: The !Xun of Ekoka
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Through moving life histories, Akira Takada gives the !Xun of north-central Namibia a voice in their own history. In contrast to other marginalised...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and the Politics of Reciprocity Along the Sierra Leonean Coast
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the len...
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The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00$87.99$87.99 - $87.99Current price $87.99| /Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade challenges long-standing conceptions of highl...
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Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer, Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner ...
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Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner c...
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Power Back to the People: The Relevance of Ethnic Federalism in Uganda
PaperbackOriginal price $38.50 - Original price $38.50Original price $38.50$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The 'scramble for Africa' resulted in random and unlikely borders that remain today. These artificial borders, the colonial policy of divide and ru...
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Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among ...
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Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
PaperbackOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelle...
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Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand: One Foot Out of the Closet
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Z...
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Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protecte...
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Religions of the Hindukush: The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$87.99$87.99 - $87.99Current price $87.99| /The traditional religions of the remote tribes along the northern borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with their complex cosmology of god...
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The Significance of Chinatown Development to a Multicultural America: An Exploration of the Houston Chinatowns
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The Houston Chinatown's dramatic transformation from a Chinese enclave decades ago to a continually expanding multiethnic boomtown today contrasts ...
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Living with Civilisations: Reflections on Southeast Asia's Local and National Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of h...
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Living with Civilisations: Reflections on Southeast Asia's Local and National Cultures
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of h...
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The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.Product Det...
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Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9789819951826 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Springer Publication Date: 12-02-2023 Pages: 247 Product Dimensions: 9.21h x...
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Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in...
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Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in...
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the larges...
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