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Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, EmigrE Croatians, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies. Even as the creators of official history jealously guarded the right to produce historical texts, alternative histories survived and on occasion even prospered in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China. Contes...

This work comments on three decades of development theory, discusses the determinants of the course of its evolution and decline, and exemplifies it from the viewpoint of a leading participant in the debate. The author suggests that the African experience has some lessons to teach about the real meaning of uncontrolled capitalist development on a global scale.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in his essay Okey Ndibe explores the country that draws conflicting emotions from him through the memory of his grandfather's life and the histories that ma...

Africa Inside Out - an anthology of stories, tales and testimonies - challenges the global newscast, daily, nightly, of an Africa of dictatorships, starvation and disease. Writers inside and outside the continent were invited by Time of the Writer Festival instead to respond to an Africa of the now: an Africa inescapably part of contemporary world culture. In seeking to portray an Africa that goes against the stereotype, writers pushed boldly against literary expectation. Responses range from qu...

This text provides a revision of South African labour history and makes a contribution to the debate about apartheid's genesis. Using a range of untapped sources, it shows that there was far more strike action during World War IIthan was officially acknowledged. North America: Ohio U Press

This work is a significant contribution to the study of kingship and the ritual process, two longstanding areas of anthropological debate both within and beyond South Asia. The Deregulation of Princes Act 1971, was designed to bring to an end the last vestiges of kingly rule in India. Part of a political process begun under British rule, the Act took away the royal privileges of the maharajas and sought fully to integrate them as citizens in a moderndemocracy. But today, a form of kingship pers...

Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. This study argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social lifeof colonial Zanzibar. Dhows and the regional trade they fostered allowed a class of indigenous entrepreneurs to thrive in Zanzibar. These entrepreneurs, whose economic interests stretched across continents and colonial boundaries, were able to thwart or shape many of t...