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Mozambiqueby Joã Cabrita; o M.
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 147.00Mozambique's civil war was inevitable given the tradition of conflict that has always characterized Frelimo, first as an independence movement, and then as a ruling party. Without disregarding the role played by both Rhodesia and South Africa in the war - in fact providing new and detailed information about it - Cabrita guides the reader through Frelimo's early days and gives a clear understanding of the pattern of internal dissent, persecution and physical elimination of members and opponents that remained the organization's hallmark. more...
Shifting Sandsby Steve Donahue
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2004; US$ 16.95"We had no vehicle. We didn't know how or if we could continue heading south. I was in a vast, seemingly endless desert. I didn't know when or if we'd make it to the other side. I didn't even know where the other side was. It wasn't in Algeria. I knew that much. Was it in Niger? Where does the Sahara actually end?" We live in a culture, Donahue writes, which loves "climbing mountains." We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis-divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, how to get there, or even how we'll know we've arrived. And it's not just in times of crisis. There are... more...
Ethnographic Sorceryby Harry G. West
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 16.00According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery—for many of them, West’s efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In Ethnographic Sorcery , West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West’s research into sorcery is that one sorcerer’s claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West’s attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages... more...
German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memoryby Volker Langbehn
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 130.00Investigating visual communication and mass culture, print culture and suggestive racial politics, racial aesthetics, racial politics and early German film, racial continuity and German film, and photography, this title offers an evidence of a German society between 1884 and 1919 that produced vibrant and heterogeneous cultures of colonialism. more...
Culture in Chaosby Stephen C. Lubkemann
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it. Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were fragmented by wartime displacement and the profound... more...
Soldiers at Peaceby Jessica Schafer
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). The book examines former soldiers' - from both sides - return to civilian life, and how their identity as veterans plays out in the political sphere. more...
The Politics of Peace in Mozambiqueby CARRIE MANNING
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 140.00Manning examines issues of democratization and conflict resolution through the lens of the Mozambican experience from 1992-2000. Since the end of the Cold War, a formal democratization process has been at the center of virtually every negotiated peace agreement to end a civil conflict. Nearly a decade after the Rome peace accord put an end to 16 years of civil war, Mozambique stands out as one of the world's most unlikely postwar democratization success stories. What accounts for the durability of the postwar political settlement? What lessons does the Mozambican experience hold for other such cases?||Relying on original research conducted in Mozambique between 1994 and 1999, Manning argues that the country's relatively successful postwar political... more...
Mozambique Women in Culture, Business & Travelby World Trade Press
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 7.45Women often occupy different roles in a foreign culture. Avoid offensive assumptions and behavior by understanding the position of women in Mozambican society: their legal rights; access to education and health care; workforce participation; and their dating, marriage, and family life. more...
French Caribbeans in Africaby Véronique Hélénon
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 80.00This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II. more...
Koloniale Begegnungenby Ulrike Lindner
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 51.47Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt I.Einleitung8 Zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation: Deutsche und britische Kolonialherrschaft in Afrika8 Verflechtungsgeschichte und Vergleich20 Begriffe29 II.Deutschland und Großbritannien als koloniale Nachbarn in Afrika: Wahrnehmungen und Interaktionen32 1.Gegenseitige Wahrnehmung als Kolonisierende in Afrika34 1.1.Der deutsche Blick auf die britischen Kolonien43 1.2.Der britische Blick auf die deutschen Kolonien65 1.3.Verflechtungen der nationalen Kolonialdiskurse, Kooperationen und Wissenstransfer84 2.Über Kolonialgrenzen hinweg: Begegnungen der Kolonisierenden in Afrika100 2.1.In der Diaspora: Gegenseitige Unterstützung der Missionare und men on the spot in Ostafrika102 2.2.Zwischen etablierten Kolonien:... more...
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