African Crossroads

African CrossroadsCameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a wide

International and cross-cultural perspectives on aging

the yaksis related to a large family of demonic and quasi-demonic beings

Lane’s recently recovered and published Description of Egypt (2000) shows that he was a pioneering Egyptologist as well as orientalist

hero of both books

the difficulty of reading

many in order to marry Italian men

and education

Laura and Jim represent a silent underground of practitioners who have lost the right to legislate their own profession

which offers a living parallel to the ancient Delphic oracle

Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology

pruning technique

Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and problems in early Islamic history