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Ethnographies about Africa

Askew, Kelly M. 2002. Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. University of Chicago Press.
Barber, Karin.2000. The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater. Indiana University Press. [Nigeria]
Barnes, Sandra. 1986. Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos. Indiana University Press. [Nigeria]
Boddy, Janice. 1989. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. University of Wisconsin Press.
Chalfin, Brenda. 2004. Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Community. Routledge. [Ghana]
Cheney, Kristen. 2007. Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Clark, Gracia. 1994. Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women. University of Chicago Press. [Ghana]
Coe, Cati. 2005. Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism and the Transformation of Knowledge. University of Chicago Press. [Ghana]
Crehan, Kate. 1997. The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia. University of California Press.
Cronk, Lee. 2004. From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya. Westview Press.
Ebron, Paulla A. 2002. Performing Africa. Princeton University Press. [Senegal and Gambia]
Edmondson, Laura. 2007. Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage. Indiana University Press.
Ensminger, Jean. 1992. Making a Market: The Transformation of an African Society. Cambridge University Press. [Kenya]
Fairhead, James and Melissa Leach. 1996. Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest Savanna Mosaic. Cambridge University Press. [Guinea]
Feierman, Steven. 1990. Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania. University of Wisconsin Press.
Fabian, Johannes. 1990. Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba (Zaire). University of Wisconsin Press.
Ferguson, James. 1990. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life in the Zambian Copperbelt. University of California Press.
Ferme, Marianne. 2001. The Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone. University of California Press.
Geschiere, Peter and Janet Roitman. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. University of Virginia Press. [Congo and Zaire]
Geurts, Kathryn Linn. 2002. Culture of the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. University of California Press. [Ghana]
Goheen, Miriam. 1996. Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. University of Wisconsin Press.
Gottlieb, Alma. 2004. The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. University of Chicago Press. [Cote d'Ivoire]
Guyer, Jane. 2004. Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. University of Chicago Press. [Nigeria and Ghana]
Hansen, Karen Tranberg. 2000. Saluala: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. University of Chicago Press.
Haugerud, Angelique. 1995. The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Cambridge University Press.
Heald, Suzette. 1998. Controlling Anger: The Anthropology of Gisu Violence. Athens: Ohio University Press. [Uganda]
Hodgson, Dorothy. 2001. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Development among the Maasai, 1880s-1990s. Indiana University Press. [Kenya]
Hughes, David McDermott. 2006. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier. University of Washington Press.
Ignatowski, Clare. 2006. Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon. Indiana University Press.
Kratz, Corinne. 1994. Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women’s Initiation. Smithsonian Institution Press. [Kenya]
Kull, Christian. 2004. Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. University of Chicago press.
Lambek, Michael. 2002. The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Launay, Robert. 1992. Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town. Waveland Press. [Cote d'Ivoire]
Linares, Olga. 1992. Power, Prayer, and Production: The Jola of Casamance, Senegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Little, Peter D. 2003. Somalia: Economy Without a State. Oxford: James Currey.
Livingston, Julie. 2005. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
MacGaffey, Janet and Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga. 2000. Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. James Currey.
Malkki, Liisa. 1995. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. University of Chicago Press. [Burundi and Tanzania]
McMillan, Della E. 1995. Sahel Visions: Planned Settlement and River Blindness Control in Burkina Faso. University of Arizona Press.
Moore, Henrietta and Megan Vaughn. 1994. Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990. James Currey.
Peters, Pauline. 1994. Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana. University Press of Virginia.
Piot, Charles. 1999. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. University of Chicago Press. [Togo]
Pritchett, James. 2001. The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in Central Africa. University of Wisconsin Press. [Zambia]
Regis, Helen A. 2002. Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine in Northern Cameroon. Westview.
Roitman, Janet. 2005. Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. Princeton University Press. [Cameroon]
Sharp, Lesley A. 1993. The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town. University of California Press.
Shaw, Rosalind. 2002. Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone. University of Chicago Press.
Stambach, Amy. 2000. Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa. Routledge. [Tanzania]
Stone, Glenn. 1996. Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. University of Arizona Press. [Nigeria]
Walley, Christine J. 2004. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an African Marine Park. Princeton University Press. [Tanzania]
Weiss, Brad. 1996. The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World. Duke University Press. [Tanzania]
Weiss, Brad. 2002. Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Whyte, Susan Reynolds. 1997. Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda. Cambridge University Press.
Yankah, Kwesi. 1995. Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory. Indiana University Press. [Ghana]