Vol 1: 1997: Oxford: Basil Blackwell
A one-of-a-kind textbook bringing key works in African studies to a wide range of readers. Forty-four articles have been selected either because they have proved to be classic and influential, or because of their significance to the current development of the field.
Vol 2: 2009: Oxford: Basil Blackwell
A newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization
Perspectives on Africa, vol. 2 (co-edited with Christopher B. Steiner and Stephen C. Lubkemann)
This carefully chosen and brilliantly edited collection is an extraordinary resources for anthropologists of Africa…This volume is a treasure.
Perspectives on Africa, vol. 2 (co-edited with Christopher B. Steiner and Stephen C. Lubkemann)
This superb collection of influential contemporary and classic works in African Studies will be indispensable to both students and instructors. Twelve thematic sections, each masterfully framed by the editors, offer a deft blend of intellectual history, theory, and ethnography.
Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (co-edited with Christopher B. Steiner)
A volume for all students and teachers seriously interested in understanding the unity and diversity of African cultures, and engaging in a dialogue with African Studies’ literary ancestors and their creative and critical successors. Grinker and Steiner have offered a doorway for those who dare to embrace the masters of the field and join new academic worlds in the making.
Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (co-edited with Christopher B. Steiner)
Here is an excellent anthology that illustrates magnificently the processes of Africa’s invention, the complexity of her cultures, and the paradoxes and predicaments of the discourses taty claim to render her being.
