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Table of Contents - Volume 66 - Issue 03 - July 1996

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Taking the spirits' perspective

Female over male or left over right: solving a classificatory puzzle among the OvaHimba Female over male or left over right: solving a classificatory puzzle among the OvaHimba

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David P. Crandall

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 327 - 348

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160956 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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«Les charmes du roi sont les esprits des morts»: les fondements religieux de la royauté sacrée chez les Luba du Zaïre «Les charmes du roi sont les esprits des morts»: les fondements religieux de la royauté sacrée chez les Luba du Zaïre

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Pierre Petit

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 349 - 366

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160957 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Maintaining meanings in the midst of change

Money, milk and sorghum beer: change and continuity among the Iraqw of Tanzania Money, milk and sorghum beer: change and continuity among the Iraqw of Tanzania

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Ole Bjørn Rekdal

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 367 - 385

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160958 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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The social context of iron forging on the Kenya coast The social context of iron forging on the Kenya coast

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Chapurukha M. Kusimba

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 386 - 410

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160959 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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The family calculus

The changing value of children among the Kikuyu of Central Province, Kenya The changing value of children among the Kikuyu of Central Province, Kenya

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Neil Price

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 411 - 436

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160960 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Agrarian change in Kusasi, north-east Ghana Agrarian change in Kusasi, north-east Ghana

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Paul Webber

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 437 - 457

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160961 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Review Article

The Senegalese exception The Senegalese exception

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Donal B. Cruise O'Brien

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 458 - 464

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160962 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Reviews of Books

Roland Breton and Guy Maurette, Montagnards d'Afrique noir: les hommes de la pierre et du mil, Haut-Mandara, Nord-Cameroun. Paris: Harmattan, 1993, 71 pp., 000 francs, ISBN 2 858028 05 2. Roland Breton and Guy Maurette, Montagnards d'Afrique noir: les hommes de la pierre et du mil, Haut-Mandara, Nord-Cameroun. Paris: Harmattan, 1993, 71 pp., 000 francs, ISBN 2 858028 05 2.

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Jeanne-Françoise Vincent

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 465 - 466

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160963 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Ginette Aumassip, Chronologies de l'art rupestre saharien et nord africain. Calvisson: Gandini, 1993, 32 pp., 40 francs, ISBN 2 906431 14 1 (paperback). Ginette Aumassip, Chronologies de l'art rupestre saharien et nord africain. Calvisson: Gandini, 1993, 32 pp., 40 francs, ISBN 2 906431 14 1 (paperback).

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Mark Milburn

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 466 - 467

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160964 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Chéri Samba: the hybridity of art/l'hybridité d'un art. Contemporary African Artists series, ed. Esther Dagan, Quebec: Galerie Armand African Art Publications, 1995, 104 pp., US$62.00, ISBN 1 896371 00 0 (paperback). Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Chéri Samba: the hybridity of art/l'hybridité d'un art. Contemporary African Artists series, ed. Esther Dagan, Quebec: Galerie Armand African Art Publications, 1995, 104 pp., US\$62.00, ISBN 1 896371 00 0 (paperback).

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Allen F. Roberts

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 468 - 469

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160965 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Studies in Cameroonian and Zaïrian Languages. Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1992, 375 pp., paperback. Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Studies in Cameroonian and Zaïrian Languages. Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1992, 375 pp., paperback.

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Elizabeth Magba

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 469 - 471

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160966 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Joel D. Barkan (ed.), Beyond Capitalism versus Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania. Boulder, Colo., and London: Lynne Rienner, 1994, US$19.95, ISBN 1 5558 7530 0. Joel D. Barkan (ed.), Beyond Capitalism versus Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania. Boulder, Colo., and London: Lynne Rienner, 1994, US\$19.95, ISBN 1 5558 7530 0.

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Tim Kelsall

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 471 - 472

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160967 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Ronald R. Atkinson The Roots of Ethnicity: the origins of the Acholi of Uganda before 1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, 320 pp., $32.95, ISBN 0 8122 3248 8. Ronald R. Atkinson The Roots of Ethnicity: the origins of the Acholi of Uganda before 1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, 320 pp., \$32.95, ISBN 0 8122 3248 8.

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Tim Allen

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 472 - 475

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160968 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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A. S. Kanya-Forstner and P. E. Lovejoy (eds.), The Sokoto Caliphate and the Europeans; 1890–1907. Frankfurt: Paideuma, Frobenius-Institut, 1994, 278 pp., DM80.00, ISSN 0078 7809. A. S. Kanya-Forstner and P. E. Lovejoy (eds.), The Sokoto Caliphate and the Europeans; 1890–1907. Frankfurt: Paideuma, Frobenius-Institut, 1994, 278 pp., DM80.00, ISSN 0078 7809.

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Mohammed Sanni Abdulkadir

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 475 - 476

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160969 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Robert S. Glew and Chaibou Babalé (trans. and ed.), Hausa Folktales from Niger. Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series No. 63, Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1993, 146 pp., £14.70, ISBN 0 89680 176 4 (paperback). Robert S. Glew and Chaibou Babalé (trans. and ed.), Hausa Folktales from Niger. Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series No. 63, Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1993, 146 pp., £14.70, ISBN 0 89680 176 4 (paperback).

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Graham Furniss

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 477 - 478

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160970 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Ahmed Yusuf Farah, The Milk of the Boswellia Forests: frankincense production among the pastoral Somali. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 1994, 142 pp., paperback. Ahmed Yusuf Farah, The Milk of the Boswellia Forests: frankincense production among the pastoral Somali. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 1994, 142 pp., paperback.

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Said S. Samatar

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 478 - 479

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160971 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea, second edition. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1994, 642 pp., US$69.50, ISBN 0 8108 2663 1. Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea, second edition. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1994, 642 pp., US\$69.50, ISBN 0 8108 2663 1.

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Sally Healy

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 479 - 480

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160972 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk, Arid Ways: cultural understandings of insecurity in Fulbe society, central Mali. Amsterdam: Thela, 1995, 547 pp., 59.90 florins, ISBN 9 055380 13 X. Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk, Arid Ways: cultural understandings of insecurity in Fulbe society, central Mali. Amsterdam: Thela, 1995, 547 pp., 59.90 florins, ISBN 9 055380 13 X.

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Kate Hampshire

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 480 - 481

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160973 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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James L. A. Webb Jr, Desert Frontier: ecological and economic change along the western Sahel, 1600–1850. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, 253 pp., US$45.50, ISBN 0 299 14330 9 (hard covers), US$19.95, ISBN 0 299 14334 1 (paperback). James L. A. Webb Jr, Desert Frontier: ecological and economic change along the western Sahel, 1600–1850. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, 253 pp., US\$45.50, ISBN 0 299 14330 9 (hard covers), US\$19.95, ISBN 0 299 14334 1 (paperback).

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Tony Binns

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 481 - 482

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160974 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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A. J. G. M. Sanders, Speaking for the Bushmen. Gaborone: the Botswana Society, 1995, 137 pp., 30 pula (southern Africa, 35 pula; US$12.00; £6.00), ISBN 99912 60 30 7. A. J. G. M. Sanders, Speaking for the Bushmen. Gaborone: the Botswana Society, 1995, 137 pp., 30 pula (southern Africa, 35 pula; US\$12.00; £6.00), ISBN 99912 60 30 7.

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Alan Barnard

Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp 482 - 483

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160975 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp f1 - f2

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972000048178 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

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Africa / Volume 66 / Issue 03 / July 1996, pp b1 - b1

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