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African Studies Review, a multi-disciplinary scholarly journal published by the African Studies Association, contains articles based on original research and analysis of Africa as well as book reviews three times annually. It encourages scholarly debates across disciplines. The editing of the African Studies Review is supported by Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium representing Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The African Studies Review is edited by Ralph Faulkingham of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Elliot Fratkin of Smith College, and Mitzi Goheen and Sean Redding of Amherst College. John Lemly of Mount Holyoke College serves as book review editor. Manuscripts & correspondence concerning manuscripts should be sent to: African Studies Review, 706 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Drive, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003. Email: asr@anthro.umass.edu.
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Volume 59, Number 3, December 2016Table of Contents
pp. 7-31
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View Understanding Social Resistance to the Ebola Response in the Forest Region of the Republic of Guinea: An Anthropological Perspective
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pp. 33-59
ASR Forum: the Life and Work of Joel Barkan
pp. 139-153
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View Applying a Counterfactual: Would 1966 Ugandan University Students Be Surprised by Ugandan Governance Today?
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pp. 169-180
pp. 181-200
Commentary
Book Reviews
Anthropology and Sociology
pp. 227-228
pp. 229-230
History
pp. 230-233
pp. 235-236
pp. 236-239
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pp. 241-243
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View The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics ed. by Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell (review)
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Politics, International Relations, and Globalization
pp. 243-245
pp. 245-247
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View The Politics of Distinction: African Elites From Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town by Mattia Fumanti (review)
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pp. 247-248
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View Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation by Brent McCusker, William G. Moseley, Maano Ramutsindela (review)
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Economics and Development
pp. 248-250
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Geography, Environment, and Demography
pp. 250-253
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View Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change ed. by Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Dzodzi Tsikata (review)
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Science and Technology
pp. 253-254
Religion
West Africa’s Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition by Robert M. Baum (review)
pp. 254-257
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Languages, Literature, Cinema, and Arts
Memoirs and Biography
pp. 261-263
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View The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman by Galawdewos (review)
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pp. 263-265
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Film Review Essays
pp. 301-310
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View Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams by Joseph Kahn, and: King Solomon’s Mines by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton (review)
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pp. 311-315
Film Reviews
Feature Films
Documentaries
pp. 324-326
pp. 326-328
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| ISSN | 1555-2462 |
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| Print ISSN | 0002-0206 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2017-01-03 |
| Open Access | No |
