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Volume 71 - June 2001

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David Lancy Playing on the Mother-ground: cultural routines for children's development. New York: Guilford Press, 1996, 240 pp., US $39.95, ISBN 1 57230 142 2 hard covers, US $19.95, ISBN 1 57230 215 1 paperback.

John C. McCall, Dancing Histories: heuristic ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000, 216 pp., US$42.50, ISBN 0 472 11070 5.

Marshall S. Clough, Mau Mau Memoirs: history, memory and politics. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997, 293 pp., £43.95, ISBN 1 55587 537 8.

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Raymond Silverman (ed.), Ethiopia: traditions of creativity. Seattle WA and London: University of Washington Press, 1999, 308 pp., US$40.00, ISBN 0 295 97740 X.

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Roy Willis, Some Spirits Heal, Others only Dance: a journey into human selfhood in an African village. Oxford: Berg, 1999, 220 pp., £42.00, ISBN 1 85973 283 6 (hard covers), £14.99, ISBN 0 85973 288 7 (paperback).

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Edward and Bridget Dommen, Mauritius, an island of success: a retrospective study, 1960-93. Oxford: James Currey, 1999, 100 pp., £9.95, ISBN 0 85255 160 6.

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Alemseged Abay, Identity Jilted or Re-imagining Identity? The divergent paths of the Eritrean and Tigrayan nationalist struggles. Trenton NJ: Red Sea Press, 1998, 232 pp., £14.99, ISBN 1 56902 072 8 paperback.

Miriam Goheen, Men own the Fields, Women own the Crops: gender and power in the Cameroon grassfields. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 252 pp., ISBN 0 299 14674 X.

Maurice E. F. Bloch, How we Think they Think: anthropological approaches to cognition, memory and literacy. Boulder CO and Oxford: Westview Press, 1998, 205 pp., £37.95, ISBN 0 8133 3373 3.

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Severine M. Rugumamu, Lethal Aid: the illusion of socialism and self-reliance in Tanzania. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1997, 325 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 86543 513 8.

Shorter Notices

Lene Buchert Education in the Development of Tanzania, 1919-1990. London: James Currey, 1994, 192 pp, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 709 4.

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Andreas Eckert, Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel. Douala 1880 bis 1960. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, 504 pp., DM 144.00, ISBN 3 515 06777 9 (paperback).

Robert Ross, Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: a tragedy of manners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 203 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 521 62122 4.

Michèle Coquet, African Royal Court Art, trans. Jane Marie Todd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 181 pp., US $55.00, ISBN 0226 11575 5.

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Matthew Lockwood, Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, £35.00, ISBN 0 19 828752 4.

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James Fairhead and Melissa Leach, Misreading the African Landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaicAfrican Studies Series 90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 354 pp., £50.00, ISBN 0 521 56353 4 hard covers, £17.95, ISBN 0 521 56499 9 paperback.

J. Crush (ed.), Beyond Control: immigration and human rights in a democratic South Africa. Kingston, Ont.: IDASA/Queen's University, 1998, 189 pp., ISBN 1 874864 63 2.

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Barbara M. Cooper, Marriage in Maradi: gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-89. Social History of Africa series. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 288 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 677 2, £15.95, ISBN 0 5255 627 6 paperback.

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Pekka Seppälä, Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania: anthropological perspectives on village economics. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 243 pp., SEK 220.00, ISBN 91 7106 427 3.

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