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Volume 58 - October 1988

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Bernard Hours, L'Etat sorcier: santé publique et société au Cameroun. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 1985, 165 pp., ISBN 2 85802 569 7.
Philip Burnham
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07 December 2011, p. 240
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Stephen M. Davis, Apartheid's Rebels: inside South Africa's Hidden War. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987, 238 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 300 03991 3 hardback, £6–95, ISBN 0 300 03992 1 paperback.
Tom Lodge
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07 December 2011, pp. 484-486
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‘Biodun Jeyifo, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria. Lagos: Nigeria Magazine Publications, 1984, xi + 213 pp.
Karin Barber
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07 December 2011, pp. 375-376
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P. Blaikie and H. Brookfield (eds.), Land Degradation and Society, London and New York: Methuen, 1987, 299 pp., £25 hardback, ISBN 0 416 40140 6, £10–95 paperback, ISBN 0 416 40150 3.
M. F. Sessay
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07 December 2011, pp. 113-114
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Wyatt MacGaffey, Modern Kongo Prophets: religion in a plural society, African Systems of Thought Series. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983, £15.75/$22.50 hardback, £10.50/$15.00 paperback.
Matthew Schoffeleers
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07 December 2011, pp. 241-242
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Anders Fogelquist, The Red-Dressed Zionists: symbols of power in a Swazi independent church, Uppsala Research Reports in Cultural Anthropology 5. Uppsala: Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, 1986, 211 pp., ISBN 91506 0505 4.
M. F. C. Bourdillon
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07 December 2011, pp. 376-377
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Mahdi Adamu and A. H. M. Kirk-Greene (eds.), Pastoralists of the West African Savanna, International African Seminars, New Series, No. 2, Manchester: Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, 391 pp., £35, ISBN 0 7190 2200 2.
Kevin Waldie
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07 December 2011, pp. 114-115
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J. K. Cilliers, Counter-insurgency in Rhodesia. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1985, 266 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 7099 3412 2.
Keith Maguire
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07 December 2011, pp. 486-487
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Bertil Egerö, Mozambique, a Dream Undone: the political economy of democracy, 1975–84. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987, 230 pp., ISBN 917106 262 9.
Basil Davidson
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07 December 2011, pp. 487-488
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Ladislav Holy, Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society: descent, succession and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia, Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 237 pp., £22.50, ISBN 0 521 30300 1.
Pamela Reynolds
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07 December 2011, pp. 242-243
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Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann, The United States and Africa: a history, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 450 pp., £25, ISBN 0 521 26202 X.
Adell Patton, Jr
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07 December 2011, pp. 115-117
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Helen Callaway, Gender, Culture and Empire: European women in colonial Nigeria, St Antony's/Macmillan Series. London: Macmillan, 1987, 278 pp., £9.95, ISBN 0 333 43641 5.
Jean Boyd
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07 December 2011, pp. 377-378
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M. R. Bhagavan, Angola's Political Economy 1975–1985, Research Report No. 75. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1986, 89 pp., SEK 30, ISBN 91 7106 248.
Jenny Warren
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07 December 2011, pp. 488-491
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Marja-Liisa Swantz, Women in Development: a creative role denied? The case of Tanzania. London and New York: C. Hurst and St Martin's Press, 1985,177 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 312 88780 9 (hardback), 0 312 887817 (paperback).
Carol Maccormack
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07 December 2011, p. 244
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Jane I. Guyer, Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon, African Research Studies No. 15. Boston, Mass: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1984, xi + 154 pp., ISBN 0 915118 13 0.
Pepe Roberts
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07 December 2011, pp. 378-380
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Rosemary E. Galli and Jocelyn Jones, Guinea-Bissau: politics, economics and society. London: Frances Pinter, 1987, 217 pp., ISBN 0 86187 601 6 hardback, 086187 602 4 paperback, £22.50 hardback, £6.95 paperback.
Patrick Chabal
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07 December 2011, pp. 117-121
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Michael O'Leary, The Kitui Akamba: economic and social change in semi-arid Kenya. Nairobi & London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1984, xvi + 139 pp., £5.95.
David Anderson
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07 December 2011, pp. 380-381
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Sandra T. Barnes, Patrons and Power: creating a political community in metropolitan Lagos. Manchester: Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, 261 pp., £32.50. ISBN 0 7190 1944 3.
A. L. Mabogunje
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07 December 2011, pp. 121-123
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Landeg White, Magomero: portrait of an African village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 271 pp., £19.50, $29.95, ISBN 0 521 32182 4.
Karla Poewe
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07 December 2011, pp. 491-492
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Jack Glazier, Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985, 334 pp., £30.50 hardback, £14.75 paperback, ISBN 0 8191 4949 7 hardback, 0 8191 4950 0 paperback.
David Brokensha
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07 December 2011, pp. 244-245
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Reviews of Books

Bernard Hours, L'Etat sorcier: santé publique et société au Cameroun. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 1985, 165 pp., ISBN 2 85802 569 7.

Stephen M. Davis, Apartheid's Rebels: inside South Africa's Hidden War. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987, 238 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 300 03991 3 hardback, £6–95, ISBN 0 300 03992 1 paperback.

‘Biodun Jeyifo, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria. Lagos: Nigeria Magazine Publications, 1984, xi + 213 pp.

P. Blaikie and H. Brookfield (eds.), Land Degradation and Society, London and New York: Methuen, 1987, 299 pp., £25 hardback, ISBN 0 416 40140 6, £10–95 paperback, ISBN 0 416 40150 3.

Wyatt MacGaffey, Modern Kongo Prophets: religion in a plural society, African Systems of Thought Series. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983, £15.75/$22.50 hardback, £10.50/$15.00 paperback.

Anders Fogelquist, The Red-Dressed Zionists: symbols of power in a Swazi independent church, Uppsala Research Reports in Cultural Anthropology 5. Uppsala: Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, 1986, 211 pp., ISBN 91506 0505 4.

Mahdi Adamu and A. H. M. Kirk-Greene (eds.), Pastoralists of the West African Savanna, International African Seminars, New Series, No. 2, Manchester: Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, 391 pp., £35, ISBN 0 7190 2200 2.

J. K. Cilliers, Counter-insurgency in Rhodesia. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1985, 266 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 7099 3412 2.

Bertil Egerö, Mozambique, a Dream Undone: the political economy of democracy, 1975–84. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987, 230 pp., ISBN 917106 262 9.

Ladislav Holy, Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society: descent, succession and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia, Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 237 pp., £22.50, ISBN 0 521 30300 1.

Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann, The United States and Africa: a history, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 450 pp., £25, ISBN 0 521 26202 X.

Helen Callaway, Gender, Culture and Empire: European women in colonial Nigeria, St Antony's/Macmillan Series. London: Macmillan, 1987, 278 pp., £9.95, ISBN 0 333 43641 5.

M. R. Bhagavan, Angola's Political Economy 1975–1985, Research Report No. 75. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1986, 89 pp., SEK 30, ISBN 91 7106 248.

Marja-Liisa Swantz, Women in Development: a creative role denied? The case of Tanzania. London and New York: C. Hurst and St Martin's Press, 1985,177 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 312 88780 9 (hardback), 0 312 887817 (paperback).

Jane I. Guyer, Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon, African Research Studies No. 15. Boston, Mass: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1984, xi + 154 pp., ISBN 0 915118 13 0.

Rosemary E. Galli and Jocelyn Jones, Guinea-Bissau: politics, economics and society. London: Frances Pinter, 1987, 217 pp., ISBN 0 86187 601 6 hardback, 086187 602 4 paperback, £22.50 hardback, £6.95 paperback.

Michael O'Leary, The Kitui Akamba: economic and social change in semi-arid Kenya. Nairobi & London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1984, xvi + 139 pp., £5.95.

Sandra T. Barnes, Patrons and Power: creating a political community in metropolitan Lagos. Manchester: Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, 261 pp., £32.50. ISBN 0 7190 1944 3.

Landeg White, Magomero: portrait of an African village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 271 pp., £19.50, $29.95, ISBN 0 521 32182 4.

Jack Glazier, Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985, 334 pp., £30.50 hardback, £14.75 paperback, ISBN 0 8191 4949 7 hardback, 0 8191 4950 0 paperback.

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