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NEW PAPERBACKS Ghosts of Kanungu Fertility, Secrecy & Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa RICHARD VOKES Shortlisted for the Herskovits Award. Richard Vokes examines the Kanungu fire of March 2000, when several hundred members of a Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC) burnt to death in Southwestern Uganda. His research reveals the history of this sect, the colonial history of the region, the current AIDS epidemic and the effects of globalization in the Great Lakes region. RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide. A tour de force in historical ethnography and anthropological detective work. ETHNOS: JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY $34.95/£18.99 September 2013 978 1 84701 072 8 18 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB African Anthropology Uganda: Fountain Publishers (PB) The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964 TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA A timely examination of African politics during the formative years of Zimbabwean nationalism. Providing biographical sketches of key personalities within the genealogy of nationalist politics, Timothy Scarnecchia weaves an intricate narrative that traces the trajectories of earlier democratic traditions in Zimbabwe, including women’s political movements, township organizations, and trade unions. He suggests that intense rivalries for control of the nationalist leadership after 1960 and Cold War funding for rival groups contributed to a unique political impasse, ultimately resulting in the largely autocratic and violent political state today. TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA is assistant professor of African history at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. An important and provocative work. AFRICAN HISTORY $24.95/£16.99 August 2013 978 1 58046 363 8 10 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Indirect Rule in South Africa Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power J. C. MYERS The ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indirect rule – the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries – has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages. A re-examination of the history of indirect rule in South Africa reveals it to have been much more: an ideological strategy designed to win legitimacy for colonial officials and the basic template from which segregation and apartheid emerged during the twentieth century. J. C. Myers is Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Stanislaus. $24.95/£16.99 August 2013 978 1 58046 362 1 1 b/w illus.; 156pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Empire, Development and Colonialism The Past in the Present Edited by MARK DUFFIELD & VERNON HEWITT A unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? A thought-provoking collection. POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW $29.95/£17.99 September 2013 978 1 84701 077 3 223pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC Press Course Adoption: All our paperbacks are available for academic inspection, just e-mail courseadoption@boydell.co.uk or, in North America, marketing@boydellusa.net Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique Re-thinking Gender in Africa SIGNE ARNFRED Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. Current and historic gender policies share certain basic assumptions about women, men and gender relations - but to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican men and women see themselves? This acclaimed study provides a discussion of Mozambican gender policies with a focus on the post-Independence years, but it is also a conceptual discussion – facilitated by African feminist thinking – of how to understand gender and sexuality, with the lives and views of Mozambican men and women as the point of departure. SIGNE ARNFRED is Associate Professor, Department of Society & Globalization, and Centre for Gender, Power & Diversity, Roskilde University. A unique and immensely valuable anthropological and historical study. LUCAS BULLETIN $34.95/£19.99 February 2014 978 1 84701 087 2 18 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB Manhood Enslaved Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey KENNETH E. MARSHALL Examines the lives of enslaved people and ideas of gender. Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. It argues that the lives of bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. KENNETH E. MARSHALL is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Oswego. A richly detailed portrayal of the many-faceted daily lives of enslaved people JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY $29.95/£17.99 August 2013 978 1 58046 435 2 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB Gender and Race in American History 4 www.boydellandbrewer.com
A UNIVERSE OF THOUGHT As novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, Dambudzo Marechera stands alone – which given AFRICA & GERMAN COLONIALISM The next issue of the AFRICAN GRIOT will be published in Autumn 2013 CHINA AND AFRICA the events of his turbulent life may well be how he would have preferred it. REMEMBERING AFRICA That eventful life arced from birth in A great strength of having two dynamic, Southern Rhodesia 1952, through influential African Studies imprints is Even the most casual observer education and work in Oxford and that we consistently cover a multiplicity will be aware, courtesy of London, to a premature death in 1987, of themes and subjects. This article, media pieces often edged in what had by then become Zimbabwe. however, comes from a new source, our with alarmist or cautionary Camden House imprint, which mostly overtones, of the high levels His writing remains dazzling in its focuses on German, American and of Chinese investment in intellectual richness and in the fierce English literature. Africa over recent years. singularity of his authorial voice. Here Grant Hamilton, editor of Reading We relish new approaches to African Kenneth King’s new Marechera (James Currey), gives us studies, so the chance of a piece on CH’s book, China’s Aid and a brief but compelling introduction to new book Remembering Africa was Soft Power in Africa Marechera and his work. read more just too good to miss. (James Currey), should be compulsory reading for So here’s Jim Walker, Editorial Director SPECIAL OFFER: SAVE 25%! anyone interested in China’s of Camden House, interviewing Dirk attitude and commitment African Griot readers can save 25% off all Göttsche on his groundbreaking to the continent, since it five titles featured in this issue. Order online treatment of the fascinating themes of explains the significance of at www.boydellandbrewer.com, add colonialism and Africa in German literary China’s increasing role as an to basket as usual and quote the special fiction. education donor there. Prof. reference AFG13 during checkout. Postage Anyone interested in colonial history or King’s recent interview reveals and packing charges will apply. literary representations of Africa will find a great deal about Chinese Offer ends 31 July 2013. Any queries? much to consider here. read more intentions and methods. E-mail africangriot@boydell.co.uk read more SOUTH AFRICA’S NEW PLACE IN THE WORLD FROM STRUGGLE TO POWER TO…FAILURE? Once an international pariah, South Africa has emerged in the 21st-century as a respected and influential African state, projecting its economic and political power across the continent. South Africa and the World Economy (University of Rochester Press), the new book from William G. Martin, chronicles the volatile history of this resurgence and offers clear yet contentious lessons for the present. As is clear from the following discussion, it’s a fascinating and absorbing topic. read more Roger Southall has studied Southern African politics for over 30 years and can view the long trajectories of the Zimbabwean, Namibian and South African liberation movements in their entirety, from opposition and struggle to the assumption of power and, it’s often claimed, eventual disappointment and failure. His new book, Liberation Movements in Power (James Currey), studies and compares all three movements in detail, as never before. The picture, as he admits in this exclusive interview, “is complicated”…. read more ANTHROPOLOGY / GENDER STUDIES NEW African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health Diseases & Treatments in South Africa WILLIAM BEINART & KAREN BROWN A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, informed by a strong understanding of history. This book argues that African approaches to animal health rest largely in environmental and nutritional explanations. The authors explore the widespread use of plants as well as biomedicines for healing. While rural populations remain concerned about supernatural threats, and many men think that women can harm their cattle, the authors challenge current ideas on the modernisation of witchcraft. They examine more ambient forms of supernatural danger expressed in little-known concepts such as mohato and umkhondo. They take the reader into the homesteads and kraals of rural black South Africans and engage with a key rural concern – vividly reporting the ideas of livestock owners. This is groundbreaking research which will have important implications for analyses of local knowledge more generally as well as effective state interventions and animal treatments in South Africa. WILLIAM BEINART is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford; KAREN BROWN is Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. $90.00/£50.00(s) November 2013 978 1 84701 083 4 18 b/w illus.; 286pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press We publish our free e-newsletter READING MARECHERA The African Griot twice-yearly, each May and October. It features original articles and interviews and is dedicated to giving readers special access to our authors and unique insight into their work. AFRICAN GRIOTIssue VI, Spring 2013 CHINA’S AID & SOFT POWER IN AFRICA To subscribe either e-mail africangriot@ boydell.co.uk or visit the African Griot archive at www.boydellandbrewer.com, where you can also browse previous editions. African Hosts and their Guests Cultural Dynamics of Tourism Edited by WALTER VAN BEEK & ANNETTE SCHMIDT Africa is a ‘theme park’ for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly ‘authentic’ cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the ‘other’. For Western tourists Africa embodies the Romantic ideal of ‘nature’, where they go to have adventures in the game parks and encounters with colourful cultures and picturesque people. In the long list from slavery to colonialism and from liberation to globalisation, international tourism is one of the latest global dynamics engaging the people on the continent, but the agency of the receiving partners is much larger than it was in the colonies. The differences stand out in what constitutes the heart of this book, the encounter in the field between ‘hosts’ and ‘guests’. $90.00/£50.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84701 049 0 32 b/w illus.; 352pp, 25.4 x 17.8 (10 x 7 inches), HB Photography in Africa Edited by RICHARD VOKES An ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary practice. This collection of studies in African photography examines, through a series of empirically rich historical and ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and engaged across a range of social contexts. It critically engages current debates in African photography and visual anthropology and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between photography and ethnographic research methods. These essays and Richard Vokes’s presentation offer fascinating examples of photography’s intersection with ethnography. AFRICAN AFFAIRS $29.95/£17.99 July 2013 978 1 84701 053 7 110 b/w illus.; 288pp, 25.4 x 17.8 (10 x 7 inches), PB Also by Richard Vokes: Ghosts of Kanungu. See page 4. The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967 NINA REID-MARONEY A unique and powerful view of nearly one hundred years of the struggle for freedom in North America. After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, Michigan, and was received into ordained ministry. She was the first ordained woman to serve in Canada and spent her life building churches and working for racial justice on both sides of the national border. NINA REID-MARONEY is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Huron University College at Western (London, Ontario). $90.00/£60.00(s) April 2013 978 1 58046 447 5 6 b/w illus.; 196pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Gender and Race in American History Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba SARAH L. FRANKLIN How patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenthcentury Cuban patriarchy rested. It investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean’s longest lasting slave society. SARAH L. FRANKLIN is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama. $90.00/£60.00(s) June 2012 978 1 58046 402 4 2 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora www.boydellandbrewer.com 5
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