I. Representation and Discourse 1. Jean and John Comaroff. 1991. Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 2. Cheikh Anta Diop. 1974. The Meaning of Our Work, 3. Kwame Anthony Appiah. 1993. Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 4. V.Y. Mudimbe. 1988. Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness, II. From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 5. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Nuer: Time and Space 6. Southall, Aidan W. The Illusion of Tribe 7. Vail, Leroy. Ethnicity in Southern African History III. Economics as a Cultural System 8. Douglas, M. Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 9. Coquery-Vidrovitch, C. Research on an African Mode of Production 10. Hutchinson, S. The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, cf. Smith IV. Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 11. Turnbull, C. M. The Lesson of the Pygmies 12. Grinker, R.R. Houses in the Rainforest 13. Wilmsen, E. Land Filled with Flies 14. Solway, J. S. and R. B. Lee. Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? V. Witchcraft, Science and Rationality 15. Livingstone, D. Conversations on Rain-making 16. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 17. Winch, P. Understanding a Primitive Society 18. Austen, Ralph A. 1993. The Moral Economy of Witchcraft. VI. Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 19. Griaule, M. Conversations with Ogotommeli 20. Houtondji, P. J. African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 21. Kopytoff, I. ancestors as Elders in Africa, cf. Lubkemann, West VII. Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 22. Simon Ottenberg. 1972. Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo, 23. Olu Oguibe. 1999. Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art, 24. Kelly M. Askew. As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics and Social Change in Costal East Africa 25. Bayo Hosley. In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity. VIII.Sex and Gender Studies in Africa 26. Boserup, E. The Economics of Polygamy 27. Van Allen, J. Sitting on a Man 28. LeClerc, S. Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic IX. Europe in Africa: Colonization 29. Lugard, F.D. The Dual Mandate 30.Rodney, W. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 31. Ranger, T. The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 32. Ngugi, W. T. Detained: A Writer s Prison Diary X. Nations and Nationalism 33.Senghor, L. S. Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 34. Fanon, F. On National Culture 35. Berman, B. Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 36. Steiner, C.B. The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Cote d Ivoire XI. Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 37. Gluckman, Max. Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa 38. Richards, P. Fighting for the Rainforest 39. Taylor, C. Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 40. Lubkemann, S. Where to be an Ancestor XII. Development, Governance and Globalization 41. Ferguson, J. Expectations of Modernity 42. Uvin, P. Development Aid and Structural Violence: The case of Rwanda 43. Daniel J. Smith. Culture of Corruption 44. J.Francois-Bayart. The Politics of the Belly. 45. West, H. Govern Yourselves , Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 46. Shandy, D. Nuer-American Passages