Anthropology & Sociology – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 28, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

All tomorrow’s cultures : anthropological engagements with the future / Samuel Gerald Collins. Anthropologists, indigenous scholars and the research endeavour : seeking bridges towards mutual respect / edited by Joy Hendry and Laara Fitznor. Being there : learning to live cross-culturally / edited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner. Contemporary sociological theory / edited by Craig Calhoun … [et al.]. 3rd Edition The creolization of theory / edited by

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Africa – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

e-books Africa Yearbook Online [Available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS staff/students only off-campus] Books A.B.Xuma : autobiography and selected works / ed. by Peter Limb. Africa since independence : a comparative history. Bolya : nomade cosmopolite mais sédentaire de l’éthique / sous la direction de Françoise Naudillon. Economic development of Africa, 1880-1939 / general editor, David Sunderland ; advisory editor, Godfrey N. Uzoigwe. Les fantômes de Jérusalem :

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Africa – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 12, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Canadian foreign policy in Africa : regional approaches to peace, security, and development / Edward Ansah Akuffo. A double-edged sword : a quest for a place in the African sun : archival records on the formation and missions of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa / Nkosi S.P. Holomisa Slave emancipation and racial attitudes in nineteenth-century South Africa / R.L. Watson. Africa, the lost decades / by Samuel

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Anthropology and Sociology – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropological practice : fieldwork and the ethnographic method. / Judith Okely From global poverty to global equality : a philosophical exploration / Pablo Gilabert. Connected, or, What it means to live in the network society / Steven Shaviro. The inside text : social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS / ed. by R. Harper, L. Palen and A. Taylor. The rise of anthropological theory : a history of theories of

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Africa – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Men in African film & fiction / edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane. History of the Igala Kingdom c.1534-1854 : a study of political and cultural integration in the Niger-Benue confluence area of Nigeria / Joseph N. Ukwedeh. African theatre. 9, Histories 1850-1950 / editor, Yvette Hutchison.. Africa in the American imagination : popular culture, racialized identities, and African visual culture / Carol Magee. The developmental challenges of mining and oil :

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History – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 29, 2012|History|0 comments

Presenting history: past and present / Peter Beck Making history: the historian and uses of the past / Jorma Kalela State, society and culture in Indian history / Satish Chandra Subaltern lives: biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920 / Clare Anderson The Gulf States : a modern history / David Commins.  Is history fiction? / Ann Curthoys and John Docker. Diplomacy and nation-building in Africa : Franco-British

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