Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteent
Bay (Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory U.) challenges conventional interpretations of the gendered dimensions of power in precolonial Africa in this social history of ruling coalitions in
The essayists whose work is collected here -- historians, anthropologists, and political scientists -- bring their diverse disciplinary perspectives to bear on various forms of violence that have plag
This collection of papers-all but one previously unpublished-presents the results of recent field research in the disciplines of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. The
