| |
|
|
|
Disclosure: Products details and descriptions provided by Amazon.com. Our company may receive a payment if you purchase products from them after following a link from this website.
By Kathleen Hill
Triquarterly
Paperback (206 pages)
 | List Price: $15.95*
Lowest New Price: $9.98*
Lowest Used Price: $3.87*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
An autobiographical novel chronicling a woman's ties to her daughter and an unfamiliar culture. |
|
By Paul Stoller
University Of Chicago Press
Paperback (268 pages)
 | List Price: $25.00*
Lowest New Price: $21.37*
Lowest Used Price: $16.21*
Usually ships in 1 to 2 weeks*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
"This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."—Choice
"Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh and blood in the 'fusion' with human existence. . . . An excellent demonstration of the benefits of a new genre of ethnographic writing. It expands our understanding of the harsh world of Songhay mediums and sorcerers."—Bruce Kapferer, American Ethnologist
"A vivid story that will appeal to a wide audience. . . . The voices of individual Songhay are evident and forceful throughout the story. . . . Like a painter, [Stoller] is concerned with the rich surface of things, with depicting images, evoking sensations, and enriching perceptions. . . . He has succeeded admirably." —Michael Lambek, American Anthropologist
"Events (ceremonies and life histories) are evoked in cinematic style. . . . [This book is] approachable and absorbing—it is well written, uncluttered by jargon and elegantly structured."—Richard Fardon, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Compelling, insightful, rich in ethnographic detail, and worthy of becoming a classic in the scholarship on Africa."—Aidan Southall, African Studies Review |
|
By Mark Jenkins
Modern Times
Released: 2008-05-27
Paperback (224 pages)
 | List Price: $15.95*
Lowest New Price: $4.79*
Lowest Used Price: $3.04*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | - ISBN13: 9781594867651
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description:
For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outside magazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu, he sets out with three friends to attempt their first descent of the Niger River, hoping to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu. Along the way they are attacked by killer bees, charged by hippos, and stalked by crocodiles. They stumble upon a group of completely blind men living alone in the bush and dance with a hundred naked women. That Jenkins finally reaches his goal—riding alone across the Sahara on a motorcycle—stands in sharp contrast to what befell earlier explorers who tried to find Timbuktu and whose fates the author interweaves with the narrative of his own journey. A rich combination of cultural exploration, history, and gripping adventure, this beautifully repackaged edition of To Timbuktu is a journey not to be missed. |
|
By Dr. Victor Ojakorotu
JAPSS, Inc
Paperback (278 pages)
 | List Price: $24.08*
Lowest New Price: $24.08*
Lowest Used Price: $50.10*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
Edited Volume dealing with the Niger Delta. Topics Covered: Militarism, resource management, development, etc. Part of the Conflict and Development Series of the Journa of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences |
|
powerHouse Books
Hardcover (223 pages)
 | List Price: $45.00*
Lowest New Price: $29.68*
Lowest Used Price: $17.34*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Featuring images by world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi and text by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, prominent Nigerian journalists, human rights activists, and University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Watts, this book traces the 50-year history of Nigeria’s oil interests and the resulting environmental degradation and community conflicts that have plagued the region.
Now one of the major suppliers of U.S. oil, Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world. Set against a backdrop of what has been called the scramble for African oil, Curse of the Black Gold is the first book to document the consequences of a half-century of oil exploration and production in one of the world’s foremost centers of biodiversity. This book exposes the reality of oil’s impact and the absence of sustainable development in its wake, providing a compelling pictorial history of one of the world’s great deltaic areas. Accompanied by powerful writing by some of the most prominent public intellectuals and critics in contemporary Nigeria, Kashi’s photographs capture local leaders, armed militants, oil workers, and nameless villagers, all of whose fates are inextricably linked. His exclusive coverage bears witness to the ongoing struggles of local communities, illustrating the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty.
The publication of Curse of the Black Gold occurs at a moment of worldwide concern over dependency on petroleum, dubbed by New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman as "the resource curse." Much has been written about the drama of the search for oil—Daniel Yergin’s The Prize and Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski’s Shah of Shahs are two of the most widely lauded—but there has been no serious examination of the relations between oil, environment, and community in a particular oil-producing region. Curse of the Black Gold is a landmark work of historic significance. |
|
By Paul Stoller
University Of Chicago Press
Paperback (252 pages)
 | List Price: $20.00*
Lowest New Price: $13.99*
Lowest Used Price: $9.90*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.
|
|
By Graham Dunn
AuthorHouse
Paperback (84 pages)
 | List Price: $15.49*
Lowest New Price: $13.94*
Lowest Used Price: $19.78*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
RECENT GENETIC RESEARCH AT UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID, HAS FOUND NO SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE FOR AN ARYAN INVASION OF EUROPE. THIS INVASION IS A MYTH. WE USE MORPHOLOGY TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES CAME OUT OF AFRICA. THEY DERIVE FROM AN OFFSHOOT OF THE NIGER-CONGO GROUP. AGGLUTINATION GRADUALLY LEAD TO GRAMMATICAL FUSION, WITH FOSSILISATION AND LOSS OF THE PREFIXES. THE PRIMARY ELEMENTS WERE RELATIVELY INDEPENDENT MONOSYLLABLES, USED AS PREFIXES, ROOTS, INFIXES, SUFFIXES. THE INDO-EUROPEAN "INVADERS" WERE NOT STRANGERS, BUT WERE GENETICALLY RELATED TO THE ORIGINAL BLACK INHABITANTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN LANDS WHO SPOKE NIGER-CONGO LANGUAGES. GENETICS AND LINGUISTICS NOW LEAD US TO THE SAME CONCLUSION. AFRO-ASIATIC FARMERS, NOT CONQUERING ARYANS, GRADUALLY OVERLAID THESE BLACK ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS, GIVING RISE TO THE OLIVE-SKINNED MEDITERRANEAN RACE. THE VARIOUS ALPHABETS, WE NOW KNOW, DERIVE FROM AN AFRICAN SYLLABARY. THE HISTORY OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES IS ENSHRINED IN THEIR WRITING SYSTEMS. THE LETTERS WERE ONCE MEANINGFUL AFRICAN SIGNS USED TO CATALOGUE THE REALITY OF EARLY MAN. |
|
By Jolijn Geels
Bradt Travel Guides
Paperback (280 pages)
 | List Price: $23.95*
Lowest New Price: $20.70*
Lowest Used Price: $6.11*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
This first English-language guide to the Saharan country of Niger spans the densely populated regions of the south--a colorful melting pot of cultures--and the hostile desert landscape of the north--featuring some of the most stunning sand dunes in Africa. Transport options for travelers are a particular feature of the guide--including long-distance connections to neighboring countries, river trips on the River Niger and camel trekking in the Massif de Aïr and Ténéré desert regions, home to the nomadic Tuareg people. As more independent travelers are finding their way to Niger, this guide will focus on both ends of the market: the upmarket traveler looking for background information and the budget traveler with a need to know all the practicalities.
Features include:
>Full range of travel and accommodation options
>Present-day peoples and ethnic groups, including the Hausa, the Peul, and the Tuareg, including vocabulary and phrases
>Niger culture and religion
>Wildlife and ecosystems
|
|
By ITMB Publishing
International Travel Maps
Map (1 pages; 1)
 | List Price: $11.95*
Lowest New Price: $7.70*
Lowest Used Price: $18.35*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
Folded road and travel map. Color changes show elevation levels. Shows roads from all-weather paved roads to seasonal dirt roads and tracks, with approximate distances in kilometers; airports; hotels, hostels, campsites or huts, and other accommodations; points of interest; vistas; museums; archaeological sites; wells and oases; parks; lava fields, sand dunes, and other natural features. Latitude/longitude grid. With city map of Niamey showing tourist information centers; banks; hospitals; embassies/consulates; bus terminals; camping and other accommodations; more. Main map scale 1:2,000,000. Distances in kilometers and miles. |
|
By Roderick J. McIntosh
Cambridge University Press
Paperback (278 pages)
 | List Price: $46.00*
Lowest New Price: $34.84*
Lowest Used Price: $31.00*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 14:15 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make us rethink the 'whys' and the 'wheres' of ancient urbanism. They present the archaeologist with a novelty; a non-nucleated, clustered city-plan with no centralized, state-focused power. This book explores the emergence of these cities in the first millennium B.C. and the evolution of their hinterlands from the perspective of the self-organized landscape. Cities appeared in a series of profound transforms to the human-land relations and this book illustrates how each transform marked a leap in complexity. |
|
| |
