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  • African Archaeologyby Ann Brower Stahl

    Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2004; US$ 49.95

    A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa’s past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims. Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of Africa Challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa’s past and teaches students how... more...

  • African Identitiesby Kadiatu Kanneh

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 41.95

    This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers... more...

  • Afrikanischer Tanzby Silke Hubrig; Hans G Artus; Björn Bedey

    Diplomica Verlag 2002; US$ 27.28

    Hauptbeschreibung Zunächst werden die Ursprünge des Afrikanischen Tanzes beschrieben. Damit wird neben der ursprünglichen Entstehung des Afrikanischen Tanzes und seiner stilistischen Einordnung, ein Überblick über die verschiedenen Formen des Afrikanischen Tanzes gegeben. Zudem wird auf die enge Verbindung zwischen Tanz und Musik, bzw. Tänzer/innen... more...

  • An Afrocentric Manifestoby Molefi Kete Asante

    Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95

    Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on education through expanding curricula to be more inclusive, change the language of social institutions... more...

  • Alexandriaby George Hinge; Per Bilde; Minna Skafte Jensen

    Aarhus University Press 2010; US$ 23.10

    Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated... more...

  • Ancient Egypt in Africaby David O'Connor; Andrew Reid

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 50.00

    The discipline of Egyptology has been criticised for being too insular,with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered jointly by Egyptologists and Africanists. Egypt's own view of itself has been neglected;... more...

  • Ancient Perspectives on Egyptby Roger Matthews; Cornelia Roemer

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 50.00

    The discipline of Egyptology has been criticised for being too insular,with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered jointly by Egyptologists and Africanists. Egypt's own view of itself has been neglected;... more...

  • Angola Travel Complete Profileby World Trade Press

    World Trade Press 2010; US$ 14.40

    Whether planning your own trip to Angola, or planning someone else’s, you’ll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel report—both of our “Travel” and “Points of Interest” reports rolled into one. more...

  • The Black Nileby Dan Morrison

    Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 26.95

    "A supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny... more...

  • Brothers' or Others?by Anita Fábos

    Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 70.00

    Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as ?brothers? in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese... more...