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Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture Africa and the Diaspora presents historical, cultural, and political studies of both Africa and the Diaspora, focusing on precolonial, colonial, and contemporary history; political history and politics; oral traditions and literature; anthropological approaches to contemporary problems and issues; and historical and cultural studies of Africans in the Diaspora. Please send all inquiries to UW Press Editor in Chief Dan Crissman.
Featured   Casebound $79.95 SISBN 9780299350406 Fashioning Inland Communities
Trade and Popular Culture in Central East Africa “Felber-Seligman brilliantly places the fashions, desires, and affective ties developed by men and women of the inland Ruvuma River basin region at the center of the centuries-long history of Indian Ocean trade. In Ruvuma residents’ artful hands and with Felber-Seligman’s thoughtful storytelling, foreign objects far exceed the familiar scholarly treatment of material culture from ‘elsewhere’ as prestige goods or regional currencies. Instead, Fashioning Inland Communities ask us to recognize the power of informal ties and fashion whims to transform lives, politics, and even the sorts of intercontinental processes recognized as definitive of global histories.”  Casebound $79.95 SISBN 9780299352004 The Age of Sex
Custom, Law, and Ritual in Twentieth-Century East Africa “Decker’s decolonial-historical analysis of the intersecting concepts of sexuality and age is a refreshing eye-opener, revealing the embeddedness of these concepts in complex cultural, economic, and political constructions coupled with racist imperial (mis)representations. It is an invitation to rethink conventional sex laws.”  Casebound $79.95 SISBN 9780299344504 Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
“Reading this was a joy. It is precisely the kind of book that will command attention not only among Africanists but in adjunct and cross-fertilizing disciplines and cultural contexts where tensions and contestations around kinship, filiation, and familism—moral and otherwise—persevere, giving modernist claims of isolated individuality a run for their affective money.”  Casebound $79.95 SISBN 9780299341206 Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963
“An important contribution. Redding draws brilliantly on a range of archival sources to ask pointed questions about the history of violence in rural South Africa. Far from being an expression of atavistic African proclivities, the violence that marked white rule was, in fact, a response to the disruptions caused by that rule. Violent actions by African actors constituted a form of social navigation in a world over which they had limited control. Redding shows how it is possible to study violence historically without falling into tired tropes about ‘black-on-black violence.’” Recent and Backlist Click the icon below the book image to add the title to your shopping cart.
Religious Entanglements
The Names of the Python
Entrepreneurial Goals
Health in a Fragile State
Whose Agency
Spirit Children
Senegal Abroad
Farming and Famine
Postcolonial Paris
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913
Education as Politics
Cubans in Angola
Early African Entertainments Abroad
Whispering Truth to Power
The Postcolonial State in Africa
Mau Mau’s Children
Defeat Is the Only Bad News
Spirit, Structure, and Flesh
Being Colonized
Naming Colonialism
Power in Colonial Africa
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
Nachituti’s Gift
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda |
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