The Intricacies of Interfaith Cooperation in Coastal Kenya
Regulating Religious Coexistence offers a compelling ethnographic analysis of how Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of indigenous African religions negotiate coexistence in Kenya's coastal region. The book conceptualizes religious diversity as a dynamic field shaped by multiple partly intersecting and partly conflicting models of interaction. ......
The Intricacies of Interfaith Cooperation in Coastal Kenya
Regulating Religious Coexistence offers a compelling ethnographic analysis of how Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of indigenous African religions negotiate coexistence in Kenya's coastal region. The book conceptualizes religious diversity as a dynamic field shaped by multiple partly intersecting and partly conflicting models of interaction. ......
Peacebuilding, Health Crises, and Aid in Twenty-First-Century Guinea and Sierra Leone
In recent years, the capacity of civil society to respond to crises has been increasingly constrained by rising authoritarianism. Yet in West Africa, where civil society has historically played a pivotal role in democratization, this trend reveals deeper structural challenges. Unraveling of Civil Society examines how international aid strategies ......
Much recent research on human evolution emphasizes that social behavior and cognition are at the heart of everything that is distinctively human. This body of research generally understands sociality in terms of social reasoning and the brain that supports it. Human Flesh shifts the focus. What if human sociality is not primarily or exclusively ......
Judith Resnik didn't grow up dreaming of space, but when NASA opened its doors to women astronauts in the late 1970s, she stepped forward-and soared. One of the first six women ever accepted into NASA's space shuttle astronaut-training program, Resnik brought her sharp mind, determination, and creativity to a field that had long been closed to ......
Judith Resnik didn't grow up dreaming of space, but when NASA opened its doors to women astronauts in the late 1970s, she stepped forward-and soared. One of the first six women ever accepted into NASA's space shuttle astronaut-training program, Resnik brought her sharp mind, determination, and creativity to a field that had long been closed to ......
Private eye Andy Hayes confronts his personal prejudices and assumptions when an unorthodox case comes his way. Tim Watkins is a young drag artist performing under the name Tiara Treatwell and facing online abuse and in-person stalking from anti-LGBTQIA crusaders. While Andy suspects the attacks are connected to a protest outside a drag story hour ......
A groundbreaking study of Yoruba-language print culture in colonial Lagos Much Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria. Focusing on the 1910s and 1920s-a period of rapid experimentation and innovation-Karin Barber examines the ......
A groundbreaking study of Yoruba-language print culture in colonial Lagos Much Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria. Focusing on the 1910s and 1920s-a period of rapid experimentation and innovation-Karin Barber examines the ......
