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African Studies 2015 Table of Contents AFRICAN STUDIES 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES .................................................. 1 PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HEALTH ...............................30 AFRICA IN WORLD HISTORY ..............................................6 Public Health .................................................................31 Slavery ..............................................................................8 Anthropology and Sociology ........................................32 OHIO SHORT HISTORIES OF AFRICA ................................ 11 Women’s Studies ...........................................................34 SERIES IN ECOLOGY AND HISTORY .................................13 Politics, Philosophy, Law, and Labor ............................36 Environment, History, Politics ......................................15 MODERN AFRICAN WRITING ...........................................40 History ............................................................................17 Literature and Literary Studies .....................................42 CAMBRIDGE CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES SERIES ........24 Film and Media .............................................................44 Global and Comparative Studies ..................................26 Index · Authors ..............................................................46 Land and Development ................................................27 Index · Titles ..................................................................48 War and Peace ..............................................................28 ORDERING EXAM / DESK COPY REQUESTS ABBREVIATIONS Individuals are encouraged to patronize local We send free examination copies in Adobe Digital RIS Research in International Studies bookstores whenever possible. 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George Paolo Israel Violent Intermediaries Making Modern Girls In Step with the Times African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique Colonialism in German East Africa Development in Colonial Lagos “Countless authors have written about Mapiko, invari- “Michelle Moyd offers a uniquely empathetic reading “Firmly grounded and intellectually engaging, Making ably contributing to its mythologization. But none of colonial sources and a new narrative voice as she Modern Girls makes a significant contribution have accomplished what Paolo Israel has, namely uncovers the histories of … actors that have been to colonial urban social history and also to the to produce a cultural history of Mapiko — including mythologized, misused, and misunderstood for more study of the late colonial state, its nationalist its plastic elements (the masks worn by Mapiko than a century.”— Jamie Monson, professor of history, opponents, and their ‘welfarist’ and interventionist dancers) as well as its performative elements (dance, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota attitudes.”— Richard D. Waller, associate professor of drumming, and lyrics). 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It draws from gender and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari studies, generational studies, labor history, and urban their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko by focusing on the nature of colonial violence. history to shed new light on the complex workings of its historic and artistic context, charting in detail African cities from the turn of the twentieth century the transformations of this masquerading tradition 2014 · 304 pp through the nationalist era of the 1950s. throughout the twentieth century. PB (978-0-8214-2089-8 · $32.95) · E 2014 · 296 pp 2014 · 296 pp PB (978-0-8214-2116-1 · $32.95) · CL · E PB (978-0-8214-2088-1 · $32.95) · E OHIOSWALLOW.COM New African Histories • 1 NEW NEW NEW Rachel Jean-Baptiste Alicia C. Decker Shobana Shankar Conjugal Rights In Idi Amin’s Shadow Who Shall Enter Paradise? Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda Christian Origins in Muslim Northern in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Nigeria, c. 1890–1975 “A substantial original contribution to East African “As a study of Francophone Africa written in English, history and the history of militarism in postcolonial “This book by Shobana Shankar is a real eye-opener: Conjugal Rights is doubly valuable. Bringing together Africa more broadly. Alicia Decker provides a compel- she reveals the world of Christians, since 1890 half- cutting-edge urban studies, gender history and the ling analysis of the lives of ordinary Ugandans, and hidden within Nigeria’s Muslim Hausaland, both as a history of emotions, Jean-Baptiste’s work insists that women in particular, during Amin’s rule. She writes community and as a series of remarkable individuals. the shape of Libreville owed as much to the shifting in an engaging, readable style that will appeal to both Missionaries and converts alike are treated with insight fortunes of marriage and sexual relationships as to academics and those outside the academy.”— Neil and a remarkable depth of detail, culled from rarely any set of commodity imports and exports. It points Kodesh, author of Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship read sources.”— Murray Last, professor emeritus of us toward a new and much fuller understanding of and Public Healing in Buganda anthropology, University College London the lives of African women and men in cities where “Alicia Decker uses an array of evidence from oral, “This wonderful, engaging study of the complex and personal and political constructions regularly flowed visual, and written sources. The result is an impressive often unexpected history of Christian and Muslim over the boundaries planned for them by colonial- compilation of case studies that illustrate the mutual formation in Nigeria begins with the life stories ism.”— Teresa A. Barnes, associate professor of history, different aspects of women’s experiences and the of striking individuals and then traces the gradual African studies, and gender and women’s studies, intricate world they navigated.”— Nakanyike Musisi, emergence of medical and educational infrastructure. University of Illinois coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Highly recommended for scholars of the politics of “Richly documented and highly readable, Conjugal Governance in Uganda and coeditor of Women in religion and of African history,
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