The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka [1 ed.] 9789789182732, 9789789181957

Wole Soyinka: politics, poetics and postcolonialism 9780521394864, 9780511097843

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Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism 9780521394864, 9780511065385, 0511065388, 0521394864

Biodun Jeyifo examines the relationship between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical

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Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship 0435909770, 9780435909772

Adewale Maja-Pearce analyzes contemporary African politics and society with absolute candor in these essays. Drawing on

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Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes 9781785336836

Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist’s

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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation 9781501375767, 9781501375750, 9781501375798, 9781501375781

This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how

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Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia

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Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital 9780520973183

As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century

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Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes: Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru 9781477310571

Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and s

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The Social Dynamics of Family Violence 9781138326057

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Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World 1843843374, 9781843843375

An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence. The concept of medieval historiography as

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