Africa / edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, and Patrick O'Meara.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253013026 (e-book)
Uniform titles:
  • Africa (2014)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Africa.DDC classification:
  • 960 23
LOC classification:
  • DT3 .A23 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Africa : a geographic frame / James Delehanty -- Legacies of the past : themes in African history / John Akare Aden and John H. Hanson -- Social relations : family, kinship, and community / Maria Grosz-Ngaté -- Making a living : African livelihoods / Gracia Clark and Katherine Wiley -- Religions in Africa / John H. Hanson -- Urban spaces, lives, and projects in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Health, illness, and healing in African societies / Tracy J. Luedke -- Visual art in Africa / Patrick McNaughton and Diane Pelrine -- African music flows / Daniel B. Reed and Ruth M. Stone -- Literature in Africa / Eileen Julien -- African film / Akin Adesokan -- African politics and the future of democracy / Amos Sawyer, Lauren M. MacLean and Carolyn E. Holmes -- Development in Africa : tempered hope / Raymond Muhula and Stephen N. Ndegwa -- Human rights in Africa / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Print and electronic resources / Marion Frank-Wilson.
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"All chapters are freshly conceptualized and written for this fourth edition, many with an expanded scope or integration of topics from previously separate chapters. Previous editions had bibliographic essays, and in this edition we add a new chapter on the availability of electronic information on the internet in addition to published materials."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Africa : a geographic frame / James Delehanty -- Legacies of the past : themes in African history / John Akare Aden and John H. Hanson -- Social relations : family, kinship, and community / Maria Grosz-Ngaté -- Making a living : African livelihoods / Gracia Clark and Katherine Wiley -- Religions in Africa / John H. Hanson -- Urban spaces, lives, and projects in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Health, illness, and healing in African societies / Tracy J. Luedke -- Visual art in Africa / Patrick McNaughton and Diane Pelrine -- African music flows / Daniel B. Reed and Ruth M. Stone -- Literature in Africa / Eileen Julien -- African film / Akin Adesokan -- African politics and the future of democracy / Amos Sawyer, Lauren M. MacLean and Carolyn E. Holmes -- Development in Africa : tempered hope / Raymond Muhula and Stephen N. Ndegwa -- Human rights in Africa / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Print and electronic resources / Marion Frank-Wilson.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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