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We are delighted to inform you that Berghahn titles will be present at the\u00a02018 UK African Studies Association Conference<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Birmingham from September 11-13 2018. Please stop by our table to browse the latest selection of books at discounted prices & pick up some free journal samples.<\/p>\n

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If you are unable to attend, and in celebration of the New Academic Year, we would like to provide you with a special 50% discount offer on all African Studies titles<\/a>. Use discount code AFR18, valid through September 30th, 2018.<\/p>\n

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\"UrbanURBAN DREAMS<\/a>
\nTransformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
\nClaudia Roth\u2020
\nEdited by Willemijn de Jong, Manfred Perlik, Noemi Steuer, and Heinzpeter Znoj<\/p>\n

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Claudia Roth’s work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth\u2019s work calls into question established notions of \u201cthe African family\u201d as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Claudia Roth\u2019s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE WHEEL OF AUTONOMY<\/a>
\nRhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
\nFelix Girke<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara \u2013 a small population in southern Ethiopia \u2013 negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0How Do They Do It?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AA CREOLE NATION<\/a>
\nNational Integration in Guinea-Bissau
\nChristoph Kohl<\/p>\n

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By examining both contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation<\/span> <\/em>explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau, and the ways in which the phenomenon of cultural creolization results in the emergence of new identities.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ChildrenCHILDREN OF THE CAMP<\/a>
\nThe Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
\nCatherine-Lune Grayson<\/p>\n

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Based on in-depth fieldwork, this book explores the experience of Somalis who grew up in Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, and are now young adults. This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MakingFINALIST FOR THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2016 BETHWELL A. OGOT BOOK PRIZE<\/p>\n

MAKING UBUMWE<\/a>
\nPower, State and Camps in Rwanda’s Unity-Building Project
\nAndrea Purdekov\u00e1<\/p>\n

Volume 34, Forced Migration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a book that deserves to be widely read. [It] will appeal to both Rwanda and African Studies scholars and is a must-read for graduate students preparing to do \ufb01eldwork in Rwanda. Scholars working in development studies, peace and con\ufb02ict studies, comparative politics and cultural anthropology will be rewarded for a careful read.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of Modern African Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read PART I: INTRODUCTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"DoingREVISED EDITION<\/p>\n

DOING CONCEPTUAL HISTORY IN AFRICA<\/a>
\nEdited by Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens<\/p>\n

Volume 25, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe volume offers conceptual historians of other world regions a rich trove of new sources and methods (rituals, historical linguistics, proverbs, songs, and patterns in the combination of lexical items, to name a few) for doing conceptual history in areas and for time periods for which we have few written records.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The International Journal of African Historical Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"BushBUSH BOUND<\/a>
\nYoung Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
\nPaolo Gaibazzi<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt a macro-micro level, this timely book exposes global transformations found in current globalist market economy and sheds light on the influences on these transformations as actualized at local level.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropology Book Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"HealingHEALING ROOTS<\/a>
\nAnthropology in Life and Medicine
\nJulie Laplante<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Epistemologies of Healing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>Healing Roots should be compulsory reading for students of pharmacology in Africa. That statement summarizes the wealth of information and in-depth analysis contained in a book that set out to, and succeeded in articulating the dissonance that exists in attempts to validate indigenous medicine using completely alien and super-imposed standards.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 African Studies Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"WhoForthcoming in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

WHO KNOWS TOMORROW?<\/a>
\nUncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
\nSandra Calkins<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026 [The text] is distinctly original in the way the research was carried out, and in its focus on the experience of uncertainty: not an easy thing to do and quite a challenge to social anthropology.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u2028 (JRAI)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Taming Unknowns in Sudan<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Theoria\"Theoria<\/a><\/p>\n

A Journal of Social and Political Theory<\/p>\n

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Theoria’s<\/em> purpose is to address, through academic debate, the many challenges posed by the major social, political and economic forces that shape the contemporary world, especially but not only with regard to Africa, the global South, and their relations with the global North.<\/p>\n

Special Issue:<\/strong> Issue 153: ‘Pan Africanism and African Nationalism’<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ConflictConflict and Society<\/a><\/p>\n

Advances in Research<\/p>\n

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Conflict and Society\u00a0<\/em>expands the field of conflict studies by using ethnographic inquiry to establish new fields of research and interdisciplinary collaboration.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:\u00a0<\/strong>“Eyes, Ears, and Wheels”: Policing Partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Contention\"Contention<\/a><\/p>\n

The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest<\/p>\n

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Contention\u00a0<\/em>is dedicated to research on social protest, collective action and contentious politics. As a multidisciplinary journal, Contention’s<\/em> mission is to bridge scholarly divides and promote knowledge exchange across a diverse audience of scholars in the social sciences and humanities.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>\u00a0The Am\u0101ra on the Square: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DemocraticDemocratic Theory<\/a><\/p>\n

An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/p>\n

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For too long, the discourse of democracy has been colonized and predetermined by the West. Now more than ever there is a need to globalize-and by extension democratize-how we think about democracy:\u00a0Democratic Theory<\/em>\u00a0provides the means for these essential debates to germinate and develop.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>\u00a0Democratic Theory: The South African Crucible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RegionsRegions and Cohesion<\/a><\/p>\n

Regiones y Cohesi\u00f3n \/ R\u00e9gions et Coh\u00e9sion<\/p>\n

The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on the human and environmental impacts of regional integration processes. It disseminates conceptual and empirical research (articles) and normative analysis (Leadership Forum) of topics related to human and environmental security, social cohesion, and governance.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>\u00a0Human rights-based service delivery: Assessing the role of national human rights institutions in democracy and development in Ghana and Uganda<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ReligionReligion and Society<\/a><\/p>\n

Advances in Research<\/p>\n

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Religion and Society responds to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the expanding sub-discipline of the anthropology of religion.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>\u00a0The Precarious Center: Religious Leadership among African Christians<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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