This book analyzes the interaction between nationalism, feminism, and socialism in Indonesia since the beginning of the 20th century until the New Order State of President Suharto. The focus is on the
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community,
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundari
Anthropologist Warnier takes a sensori-motor approach to understanding sacred kingship, as exemplified by the king of Mankon in western Cameroon. The present king is trained as an agricultural enginee
Between 1989 and 1999, Evers (anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) lived and participated in the daily life of the Betsileo people living in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar. Her st
Carrier (African studies, St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK) describes the social structures of the production, trade, and consumption of khat (or miraa) in Kenya, a plant that has been targeted by int
Tor Sellstrom profiles the independent island states and the European dependencies in the African part of the Indian Ocean, their contemporary social, political and economic challenges, the wider inte
This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of contemporary Ghanaian politics and economy and their relationship to culture. It combines rich, recent, empirical material with sophisti
Educational standards in Japan are the highest in the world. In this first comprehensive study of these standards Professor Richard Lynn concludes that Japanese teenagers are about two years ahead of
Jan Beek’s book explores everyday police work in an African country and shows that police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce stateness.
Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely
In Elasticity in Domesticity Ushehwedu Kufakurinani demonstrates how and to what extent the domestic ideology shaped the colonial experiences of white women in Rhodesia.
This collection examines the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries. The contributors demonstrate the active quality of space and ways people ha
