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Environment, Power, and Justice Southern African Histories Edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, and Nancy J. Jacobs With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volume’s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm. Cargoes in Motion Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean Edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social, cultural, and political effects on the region. AVAILABLE Africanizing Oncology Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda By Marissa Mika Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of health care providers and patients. Shortlisted for the 2021 North American Society for Sport History Book Prize (anthology) Sports in Africa, Past and Present Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states. A History of Tourism in Africa Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment By Todd Cleveland This book—ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent—takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about the continent and its peoples. Anxiety in and about Africa Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches Edited by Andrea Mariko Grant and Yolana Pringle This addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture. Shortlisted for the 2021 North American Society for Sport History Book Prize (anthology) Sports in Africa, Past and Present Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states. The Ever-Present Origin By Jean Gebser Translation by Noel Barstad and Algis Mickunas Gebser’s central thesis was that a potent “leap” in thinking was happening in the 20th century. This new mode of thought would be a holistic-centered, or integral one; an answer to the type of thinking responsible for economic and industrial crisis, two World Wars, and what many today consider a dire, global ecological crisis. Making the Mark Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting By Miroslava Prazak Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status? In Making the Mark, Miroslava Prazak follows the practice of female circumcision through the lives and activities of community members in a rural Kenyan farming society as they decide whether or not to participate in the tradition.In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic By Wendy Wilson-Fall Foreword by Michael Gomez Bridges history and ethnography to explore stories of Malagasy ancestry and African American identity. Twins Talk What Twins Tell Us about Person, Self, and Society By Dona Lee Davis Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them. It presents, in the first person, the grounded and practical experiences of twins as they engage, both individually and together, the “who am I” and “who are we” questions of life. Here, the twins themselves are the stars.Dona Switzerland A Village History By David Birmingham Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings. It begins with the colonization of the Alps by Romanized Celtic peoples who came from the plain to clear the wilderness, establish a tiny monastic house, and create a dairy economy that became famous for its cheeses. The Ever-Present Origin By Jean Gebser Translation by Noel Barstad and Algis Mickunas Gebser’s central thesis was that a potent “leap” in thinking was happening in the 20th century. This new mode of thought would be a holistic-centered, or integral one; an answer to the type of thinking responsible for economic and industrial crisis, two World Wars, and what many today consider a dire, global ecological crisis. Change and Continuity in Minangkabau Local, Regional, and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra By Lynn L. Thomas and Franz Von Benda-Beckmann Social scientists have long recognized many apparent contradictions in the Minangkabau. The world’s largest matrilineal people, they are also strongly Islamic and, as a society, remarkably modern and outward looking. The Ever-Present Origin By Jean Gebser Translation by Noel Barstad and Algis Mickunas Gebser’s central thesis was that a potent “leap” in thinking was happening in the 20th century. This new mode of thought would be a holistic-centered, or integral one; an answer to the type of thinking responsible for economic and industrial crisis, two World Wars, and what many today consider a dire, global ecological crisis. BROWSE… New Titles Series Subjects Catalogs HOW TO… Contact Us Order a Book Request an Exam or Desk Copy Request Permission to Reprint Submit a Manuscript About the Press Support the Press Poetry Prize Privacy Policy Shopping Cart Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Ohio University Press · Swallow Press Alden Library, Suite 101 30 Park Place Athens, OH 45701-2909 +1 740 593 1154