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TagsAnthropology (267), Philosophy (181), Africa (145), History (126), Political Theory (124), Social Theory (87), Colonialism (82), Sociology (77), Intellectual History (75), Cultural Studies (54) — see all tags
GroupsAll Books Africa, Ethical Theory, Philosophy and Theory, Political Philosophy, Social science, South Africa, theory
Favorite bookstoresBook Culture, Bulls Head Bookshop, Capitol Hill Books, Clarke's Bookshop, Daedalus Bookshop, Fahrenheit's Books, Heartwood Books, Heights Books, House of Our Own, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, Nice Price Books, Nice Price Books, Powell's City of Books, St. Mark's Bookshop, Strand Book Annex, Tattered Cover Book Store - Colfax Avenue, The Bookshop, The Gothic Bookshop, Twelfth Street Books
About me Trained (sort of) as an anthropologist, I now work as a managing editor at a university press. My intellectual interests are all over the place, but lately I have been following a line of inquiry through the anthropology of religion, the history of religious studies, and contemporary debates on secularism, all the while trying to get a better grasp of semiotic and linguistic anthropology. Longer term areas of study include political and legal anthropology, political theory, and the history of Southern Africa.
Presently reading or contemplating reading:
* Brigit Meyer - Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana
* David Chidester - Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa
* Benjamin Lee - Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity
* Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini eds. - Secularisms
* Webb Keane - Signs of Recognition: Power and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society
Recently finished:
* Andrew Apter - Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa
* Brian Larkin - Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
* Talal Asad - Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
* E. E. Evans-Pritchard - The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
* Charles Hirschkind - The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
* Talal Asad - On Suicide Bombing
* Joel Robbins - Becoming Sinners: Christianity & Moral Torment in a Papua New Guniea Society
About my library It just sits there, mocking me.
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posted by kahudson at 9:54 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2008
I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.
Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.
Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.
Best wishes,
Dan Wells
posted by biblioasis at 10:02 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008
posted by forster at 5:55 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2008
posted by markell at 1:29 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2008
cheers,
sarah k
posted by spectraviz at 3:42 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2007
posted by forster at 5:42 pm (EST) on May 26, 2007
Julie
posted by forster at 1:50 pm (EST) on Apr 24, 2007
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