| 2018 |
Diggins, Jennifer |
Coastal Sierra Leone: Materiality and the Unseen in Maritime West Africa (Cambridge University Press 2018) |
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| 2017 |
Hodžić, Sadia |
The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press 2017)
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| 2016 |
Covington-Ward, Yolanda |
Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Duke University Press 2016)
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| 2015 |
Adunbi, Omolade |
Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press 2015) |
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| 2014 |
Janson, Marloes |
Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama’at (Cambridge University Press 2014)
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Grabska, Katarzyna |
Gender, Home and Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2014)
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| 2013 |
Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène |
Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal (Berghahn Books 2013) |
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McGovern, Mike |
Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern (University of Chicago Press 2013) |
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| 2012 |
Newell, Sasha |
The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire (University of Chicago Press 2012) |
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| 2011 |
Fullwiley, Duana |
The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton University Press 2011)
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| 2010 |
Hunter, Mark |
Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender and Rights in South Africa (Indiana University Press 2010) |
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Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane |
The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (Berghahn Books 2010) |
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| 2009 |
Marchand, Trevor H.J. |
The Masons of Djenné (Indiana University Press 2009) |
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Sarró, Ramon |
The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone (Edinburgh University Press 2009) |
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| 2008 |
Holsey, Bayo |
Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana (University of Chicago Press 2008) |
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| 2007 |
Pratten, David |
The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (Edinburgh University Press 2007) |
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| 2006 |
Englund, Harri |
Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (University of California Press 2006) |
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| 2005 |
Apter, Andrew |
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
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West, Harry G. |
Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
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| 2004 |
Willet, Frank |
The Art of Ife (University of Glasgow 2004) |
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| 2003 |
Little, Peter D. |
Somalia: Economy Without State (James Currey 2003) |
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Reed, Daniel P. |
Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire (Indiana UP 2003) |
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| 2002 |
Bledsoe, Caroline H. |
Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time and Ageing in West Africa (University of Chicago Press 2002) |
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| 2001 |
Royer, Patrick & Saul, Mahir |
West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War (Ohio UP/James Currey 2001) |
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| 2000 |
Peel, J.D.Y. |
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yorua (Indiana UP 2000) |
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| 1999 |
Piot, Charles |
Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (University of Chicago Press 1999) |
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Donham, Don |
Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (University of California Press/James Currey 1999) |
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| 1998 |
Silla, Eric |
People are not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali |
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| 1997 |
Whyte, Susan R. |
The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (CUP 1996) |
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| 1996 |
Fairhead, James & Leach, Melissa |
Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savannah Mosaic (CUP 1996) |
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Hutchinson, Sharon |
Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State (Berkeley & London: University of California Press 1996) |
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| 1995 |
Malkki, L. |
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among the Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (University of Chicago Press 1995) |
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| 1994 |
Fadiman, J.A. |
When we Began there were Witchmen (Univ. of California Press 1993) Johnson, D.H. Nuer Prophets (Clarendon Press 1994) |
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| 1993 |
Steiner, C. |
African Art in Transit (CUP 1993) |
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| 1992 |
Launay, R. |
Beyond the Stream (Univ. of California Press 1992) |
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| 1991 |
Barber, K., |
I Could Speak about Tomorrow: Oriki Women and the past in a Yoruba Town Werbner, R., Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family |
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| 1990 |
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no award made |
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| 1989 |
Jackson M. |
Paths Towards a Clearing: Radical Impiricism and Ethnographic Enquiry (Indiana UP 1989) |
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| 1988 |
Schloss, M.R. |
The Hatchetts Blood James, W., The Listening Ebony |
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| 1987 |
Callaway, H. |
Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (St Anthony's/MacMillan) |
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| 1986 |
Barnes, Sandra A. |
Patrons and Power |
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| 1985 |
Buckley, A. |
Yoruba Medicine |
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| 1984 |
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no award made |
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| 1983 |
Peel, J.D.Y. |
Ileshas and Nigerians (CUP 1983) |
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| 1982 |
Goody, E. |
Parenthood and Social Reproduction (CUP 1982) |
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| 1981 |
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no award made |
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| 1980 |
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no award made |
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| 1979 |
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no award made |
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| 1978 |
Shaw, T., |
Nigeria: Its Archaeology and Early History |
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| 1977 |
Hill, P. |
Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900-1970 |
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| 1976 |
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no award made |
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| 1975 |
Ottenberg, S. |
Masked Rituals of Afikpo |
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| 1974 |
Lloyd, P.C. |
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| 1973 |
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no award made |
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| 1972 |
Henderson, R.N. |
The King in Every Man (Yale UP 1972) |
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| 1971 |
Goody, J.R. |
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (OUP 1971) |
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| 1970 |
Shaw, T. |
Igbo Ukwa (Faber 1970) |
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| 1969 |
Cohen, A. |
Custom and Politics in Urban Africa (Routledge & KP 1969) |
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| 1968 |
Ottenberg, S. |
Double Descent in an African Society (U. Washington Press) |
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| 1967 |
Lloyd, P.C., |
Africa in Social Change (Penguin 1967) |
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| 1966 |
Babola, S.A. |
The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala (Clarendon 1966) |
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| 1965 |
Harris, R. |
The Political Organization of the Mbembe (HMSO 1965) |
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| 1964 |
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no award made |
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| 1963 |
Fagg, W.B. |
Nigerian Images |
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| 1962 |
Lloyd, P.C. |
Yoruba Land Law |
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