SeriesAfrican Systems of Thought

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Africa's Ogun: Old World and New (African Systems of Thought) by Sandra T. Barnes 51 copies
African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing (African Systems of Thought) by Philip M. Peek 18 copies
African Material Culture by Mary Jo Arnoldi 13 copies
African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry by Ivan Karp 15 copies
African Philosophy in Search of Identity by D. A. Masolo 16 copies
African Philosophy: Myth and Reality by Paulin J. Hountondji 46 copies
African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History by Luise S. White 12 copies
Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives (African Systems of Thought) by Michael Jackson 11 copies
Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts (African Systems of Thought) by Leslie Witz 7 copies
Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa (African Systems of Thought) by Anne Kelk Mager 3 copies
Chiefship and Cosmology: An Historical Study of Political Competition (African systems of thought) by Randall M. Packard 1 copy
Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective by Kwasi Wiredu 23 copies, 2 reviews
The culture of colonialism : the cultural subjection of Ukaguru by T. O. Beidelman 1 copy
Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (African Systems of Thought) by Julie Livingston 19 copies
The Drunken King, Or, the Origin of the State (African Systems of Thought) by Luc de Heusch 6 copies
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (African Systems of Thought) by Barbara M. Cooper 23 copies, 2 reviews
Explorations in African Systems of Thought by Ivan Karp 15 copies
Gender and social structure in Madagascar by Richard Huntington 1 copy
The Idea of Africa by V. Y. Mudimbe 47 copies
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge by V. Y. Mudimbe 147 copies, 3 reviews
Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies (African Systems of Thought) by Eugenia W. Herbert 28 copies
Modern Kongo prophets: Religion in a plural society (African systems of thought) by Wyatt MacGaffey 2 copies
Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought by T. O. Beidelman 4 copies
Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry (African Systems of Thought) by Michael Jackson 24 copies, 1 review
Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites (African Systems of Thought) by Richard P. Werbner 11 copies
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba (African Systems of Thought) by J. D. Y. Peel 22 copies, 1 review
Sacrifice in Africa : a structuralist approach by Luc De Heusch 4 copies
Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory (African Systems of Thought) by Kwesi Yankah 11 copies
State in the Making: Myth, History and Transformation in Pre-colonial Ufipa (African systems of thought) by Roy G. Willis 2 copies
Status and Identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande (African Systems of Thought) by David C. Conrad 10 copies
Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought by Alma Gottlieb 9 copies
Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency (African Systems of Thought) by Margaret Thompson Drewal 31 copies
Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution (African Systems of Thought) by Jay Straker 3 copies

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This leading book series in African studies aims to explore the diversity of approaches to the analysis of systems of thought found in African societies and provides a forum for the presentation of research documenting such systems. The emphasis of the series is decidedly cross-cultural and multidisciplinary. The series is edited by Ivan Karp and published by Indiana University Press. Inquiries may be addressed to Dee Mortensen, Senior Sponsoring Editor. (English, Unclassified)

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