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364 p, Contents: Introduction and theoretical considerations / Erika Bourguignon -- The contemporary Saudi woman / Sherri Deaver -- Women of Brunei / Linda A. Kimball -- Women's role in a Muslim Hausa town (Mirria, Republic of Niger) / Margaret O. Saunders -- Dioula women in town : a view of intra-ethnic variation (Ivory Coast) / Risa S. Ellovich -- Spirit magic in the social relations between men and women (São Paulo, Brazil) / Esther Pressel -- Spirit mediums in Umbanda Evangelizada of Porto Alegre, Brazil : dimensions of power and authority / Patricia Barker Lerch -- Sex and status : women in St. Vincent / Jeannette H. Henney -- Adaptive strategies and social networks of women in St. Kitts / Judith D. Gussler -- Women in Yucatán / Felicitas D. Goodman -- The uses of traditional concepts in the development of new urban roles : Cuban women in the United States / Margaret S. Boone -- The life of Sarah Penfield, rural Ohio grandmother : tradition maintained, tradition threatened / Rosemary Joyce -- The economic role of women in Alaskan Eskimo society / Lynn Price Ager -- Comparisons and implications : what have we learned? / Erika Bourguignon.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally published: London : Latin American Bureau, 2006., 205 p., Relates the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, an organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that employs music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of shantytowns to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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220 p, Contents: Meanings of the new world order -- A neoliberal model for post-Duvalier Haiti -- The struggle for a democratic alternative: 1986-1990 -- The prophet armed: Jean-Betrand Aristide's liberation theology and politics -- An alternative development model for Haiti -- The Lavalas government and its overthrow: February to September 1991 -- The prophet tamed: the coup d'état and the moderation of Aristide
