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Namibia's Children
Living Conditions and Life Forces in a Society in Crisis
Amidst disastrous living conditions Namibian children develop remarkable survival skills.
Tobias Haller
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Claudia Zingerli
(eds.)
Towards Shared Research
Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments
This book investigates how to achieve a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments using shared research processes.
Susanne Epple
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Getachew Assefa
(eds.)
Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Actors, Challenges and Solutions
Legal pluralism is a challenge, but one that has stimulated remarkably creative responses to handling the many legal systems in Ethiopia today.
The Political Ecology of Malaria
Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
The study focuses on the malaria epidemic in central Uganda, linking the epidemic to ecological transformations in the region's urban fringe.
Making Diabetes
The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
This book asks how the glucometer, the often only choice to diagnose diabetes in Uganda, contributes to the making of this disease in a setting with weak health infrastructure.
Being a Parent in the Field
Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork
How being a parent in the field shapes ethnographic knowledge production?
Contested Properties
Peoples, Plants and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
A multisited ethnographic study on the value of medicinal plants and traditional and scientific knowledge in South Africa.
Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives
Introducing the perspective of »meandering lives« to approach being young and the functioning of the state in Guinea.
The Decline of Marriage in Namibia
Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community
What is the meaning of marriage when only few marry? This book tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in Namibia.
Sweet Home Chicago?
Mexican Migration and the Question of Belonging and Return
How do intentions of migrants to go back change over time? Focusing on elderly Mexicans in Chicago, this book explores issues of migration, home making and belonging in the context of global labour mobility.