Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: readings, culture, african, popular
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253211409
ISBN-13: 9780253211408

"This is an extraordinarily rich collection full of informative detail and excellent interpretative analysis. There is not a single piece that fails to fascinate... " -- Leeds African Studies Bulletin"... an impressive collection of inspiring and thought-provoking essays." -- Media Development"This is a book that should find its way into many syllabuses and onto the bookshelves of Africanist scholars in many disciplines. Its publication marks a key turning point in scholarlship on the cultures of contemporary Africa." -- Africa TodayThis book surveys the popular culture of contemporary Africa

Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anthropology, departures, new, persons, texts, publics
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2008-01-21
List price: $90.99
ISBN-10: 0521837871
ISBN-13: 9780521837873

What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in wh

Authors:Karin Barber, John Collins, Alain Ricard,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: performance, studies, drama, theatre, african, popular, west
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-06-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0253210771
ISBN-13: 9780253210777

"... a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature... " -- Research in African Literatures"Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." -- Leeds African Studies Bulletin"A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " -- Margaret Drewal"A fine book. The play texts are treasures." -- Richard BaumanAfrican popular cultur

Authors:Anton Pelinka, Karin Bischof, Karin Stögner,
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: prejudice, handbook
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2009-11-26
List price: $139.99
ISBN-10: 1604976276
ISBN-13: 9781604976274

This book, which emerged from conversation at the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna, contains twelve carefully researched and well-written essays on the timely topic of the problem of prejudice. The contributors were chosen for their scholarly expertise in their particular fields. Taken together they provide an interdisciplinary approach, each casting light from a different angle on the problem of prejudice. The book is divided into two parts. Part one explores six particular manifestations of prejudice: anti-semitism; sexism and heterosexism; prejudice against the sick, old, and handic

Authors:Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Robert Burleigh,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Keywords: books, wiseman, paula, day, game
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1416900934
ISBN-13: 9781416900931

Ronde and Tiki are a team. They are twins, they are each other’s best friends and biggest fans, and they play on the same football team, the Cave Spring Vikings. Rondeis #21 and Tiki is #22, always side by side.Tiki has had seven long touch-down runs this season, and Ronde is proud of his brother, but he can’t help feeling a little down when Tiki gets all the glory. If Ronde hadn’t been leading the way with his blocks, Tiki wouldn’t have been clear to score. Ronde thinks nobody notices the guy who blocks; they only notice the guy who scores. Will the day ever come when

Authors:Ronde Barber, Tiki Barber, Paul Mantell,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Keywords: kickoff
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-08-26
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 141693619X
ISBN-13: 9781416936190

It’s Tiki and Ronde’s second year on their junior high school football team, the Hidden Valley Eagles. The eighth-grade season is here, and the boys have come together as a team. Now key starters, Tiki and Ronde are ready for a great season, and with hard work and determination, maybe they will even go all the way to the State Championship!But when Coach Spangler announces that he has been asked to move up to the high school team, and Mr. Wheeler, the science teacher, is tapped for the head coaching job, the season seems over before it begins. Sure, Coach Wheeler played college foo

Authors:Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Paul Mantell,
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books
Keywords: kickoff
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-08-26
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1416970800
ISBN-13: 9781416970804

"Hut! Hut! Go long, Tiki!"Tiki and Ronde’s twelfth summer is winding down -- the nights are gettingshorter and the evenings cooler. That means two things: The first day of junior high is just a few days away, and it’s almost the start of footballseason at last. With two championships and an 8-2 season last year, Tiki and Ronde are ready to graduate from the Peewee League and hit the field asstarting players for the Hidden Valley Eagles.But junior high is a lot bigger than elementary school. The competition forstarting spots is stiff, and seniority rules. If Tiki and Ronde make itpa