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About meI was trained as an anthropologist and now work as a managing editor at a university press. My intellectual interests are diverse, 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.
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Currently readingSigns in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology (Advances in Semiotics) by Richard J. Parmentier
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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