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Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones
Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...
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£19,00
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Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar
ISBN: PB: 9780226113319, ISBN: HB: 9780226113302, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 14 halftones
"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered t...
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£25,50
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£74,50
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Neoliberal Frontiers An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226100616, ISBN: HB: 9780226100593, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables, 24 halftones
In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanai...
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£22,50
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£70,00
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Zulu Identities Being Zulu, Past and Present
ISBN: PB: 9781850659525, ISBN: HB: 9781850659082, Hurst Publishers, February 2009
670 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What does it mean to be Zulu today? Does being Zulu today differ from what it meant in the past? "Zulu Identities" wrestles with these and many other related questions to show how the characteristic traditions of a pre-industri...
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£30,00
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£75,00
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Bells of Change Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422487, Seagull Books, September 2008
240 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 13 halftones
This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. "Bells of Change" traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to...
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£22,50
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