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Volume 56 - January 1986

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Reviews of Books

Isidore Okpewho, Myth in Africa: a study of its aesthetic and cultural relevance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 305 pp., £20.00, 0 521 24554 0.
Karin Barber
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07 December 2011, pp. 370-371
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John W. Burton, God's Ants: a study of Atuot religion. Studia Instituti Anthropos 37. St Augustin, West Germany: Anthropos Institute, 1981, 149 pp, DM45.
G. Lienhardt
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07 December 2011, pp. 249-251
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Born-Again Imperialism
Kojo Amanor
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07 December 2011, pp. 102-105
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Rene Pelissier, Naissance du Mozambique: résistance et révoltes anticoloniales 1854–1918. Orgeval: Pélissier, 1984. 2 vols, 884 pp.
Willfried F. Feuser
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07 December 2011, pp. 495-496
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Luc De Heusch, Sacrifice in Africa: a structualist approach, Themes in Social Anthroplogy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, and Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1985, 232 pp., £27.50 (0 7190 1716 5, Manchester), $22.50 (0 253 35038 7, Indiana).
John W. Burton
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Yousif Mukhtar El Amin, Later Pleistocene Cultural Adaptations in Sudanese Nubia. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 4, BAR International Series 114. Oxford: BAR, 1981, 233 pp., £10.00.
Paul Callow
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07 December 2011, p. 251
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Peter Oesterdiekhoff and Karl Wohlmuth (eds.), The Development Perspectives of the Democratic Republic of Sudan: the limits of the breadbasket strategy. Ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftforschung München, Afrika-Studien 109. München, Köln, London:Weltforum Verlag, 1983, 339 pp.
Charles Jedrej
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07 December 2011, pp. 496-497
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Seeds of Famine
Claude Raynaut
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07 December 2011, pp. 105-111
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Environmental Bankruptcy in Africa?
Norman Reynolds
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07 December 2011, pp. 111-116
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J. C. Moughtin, Hausa Architecture, Ethnographic Arts and Culture Series. London: Ethnographica Publishers, 1985, 175 pp., 0 905788 40 0.
F. W. Schwerdtfeger
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07 December 2011, pp. 497-499
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Henry John Drewal and Margaret Thompson Drewal, Gelede: art and female power among the Yoruba, Traditional Arts of Africa Series. Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983, xxi + 306 pp., $32.50 or £22.75, 0 253 32569 2.
J. D. Y. Peel
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07 December 2011, pp. 372-373
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Ulrich Braukämper, Geschichte der Hadiya Süd-Äthiopiens von den Anfängen bis zur Revolution 1974. Studien zur Kulturkunde 50. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1980, 463 pp., DM68, 3 515 02842 0. - Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Die Geschichte von Sawa (Äthiopien) 1700–1865 nach den Tārika nagaśt des Belatten geta Heruy Walda Sellase. Studien zur Kulturkunde 53. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1980, 165 pp., DM28, 3 515 02936 2.
Virgina Luling
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07 December 2011, pp. 251-253
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Another Crisis? Another Development?
Ben Wisner
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07 December 2011, pp. 116-119
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AFR volume 56 issue 1 Front matter
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Volume 56 - January 1986

Reviews of Books

Isidore Okpewho, Myth in Africa: a study of its aesthetic and cultural relevance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 305 pp., £20.00, 0 521 24554 0.

John W. Burton, God's Ants: a study of Atuot religion. Studia Instituti Anthropos 37. St Augustin, West Germany: Anthropos Institute, 1981, 149 pp, DM45.

Review Articles

Born-Again Imperialism

Reviews of Books

Rene Pelissier, Naissance du Mozambique: résistance et révoltes anticoloniales 1854–1918. Orgeval: Pélissier, 1984. 2 vols, 884 pp.

Luc De Heusch, Sacrifice in Africa: a structualist approach, Themes in Social Anthroplogy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, and Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1985, 232 pp., £27.50 (0 7190 1716 5, Manchester), $22.50 (0 253 35038 7, Indiana).

Yousif Mukhtar El Amin, Later Pleistocene Cultural Adaptations in Sudanese Nubia. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 4, BAR International Series 114. Oxford: BAR, 1981, 233 pp., £10.00.

Peter Oesterdiekhoff and Karl Wohlmuth (eds.), The Development Perspectives of the Democratic Republic of Sudan: the limits of the breadbasket strategy. Ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftforschung München, Afrika-Studien 109. München, Köln, London:Weltforum Verlag, 1983, 339 pp.

Review Articles

Seeds of Famine

Environmental Bankruptcy in Africa?

Reviews of Books

J. C. Moughtin, Hausa Architecture, Ethnographic Arts and Culture Series. London: Ethnographica Publishers, 1985, 175 pp., 0 905788 40 0.

Henry John Drewal and Margaret Thompson Drewal, Gelede: art and female power among the Yoruba, Traditional Arts of Africa Series. Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983, xxi + 306 pp., $32.50 or £22.75, 0 253 32569 2.

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Another Crisis? Another Development?

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Koleade Oshisami and Peter N. Dean, Financial Management in the Nigerian Public Sector. London: Pitman, 1984, 361 pp., £9.95, 0273 01888 4.

Shorter Notices

W. Ross Cockrill (ed.), The Camelid: an all-purpose animal, vol. I. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1984, 544 pp., 91 7106 228 9.

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Albert Gerard, Essais d'histoire littéraire africaine. Sherbrooke, Quebec: Naaman; Paris: Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, 1984, 248 pp.

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S. H. Ominde (ed.), Population and Development in Kenya. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1985, 129 pp., £17.50, 0 435 95761 9.

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Georgia McGarry (ed.), Reaction and Protest in the West African Press: a collection of newspaper articles on five nineteenth-century African leaders. Leiden: Afrika Studiecentrum; Cambridge: African Studies Centre, 1978, 197 pp., £6.00.

P. O. Olusanya, A Handbook of Demographic Research Methods for African Students. Lagos: Olu-Nla Publications, 1985.

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