Estudos Africanos - University of Chicago Press (2005-2008)

A University of Chicago Press tem um catálogo extenso com títulos sobre os mais diversos temas sob a égide dos Estudos Africanos: sobre África mas também sobre a cultura afro-americana.
Destacamos as publicações sobre Música e Etnomusicologia, com forte presença da música africana, e por isso apresentamos uma selecção mais alargada.
Sinopses de todas as publicações em http://www.press.uchicago.edu/.

Witchcraft and Anthropology

• Bewitching Development - Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in the Neoliberal Kenya, James Howard Smith, 2008, UCP
• Witchcraft - Violence and Democracy in South Africa, Adam Ashforth, 2005 UCP
• Madumo - A Man Bewitched, Adam Ashforth, 2000 UCP
• Kupilikula - Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique, Harry G. West, 2005 UCP

Anthropology

• Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town, Stephen Jensen, 2008 UCP
• The New Urban Renewal - The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville, 2008 UCP
• Routes of Remembrance - Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana, Bayo Holsey, 2007 UCP
• Culture Troubles - Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning, Patrick Chabal and Jean-Pascal Daloz, 2006 UCP
• The Pan-African Nation - Oil and the Spetacle of Culture in Nigeria, Andrew Apter, 2005 UCP
• Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools - Youth, Nationalism and the Transformation of Knowledge, Cati Coe, 2005 UCP
• Uncertain Honor - Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, 2005 UCP
• The Illusion of Cultural Identity, Jean-François Bayart, 2005 UCP

Geography and Society

• Challenging Nature - Local Knowledge, Agroscience and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania, Philip W. Porter, 2006 UCP

Politics and Society

• Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City - The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer, Wendel E. Pritchett, 2008 UCP
• Minority Report - Evaluating Political Equality in America, John D. Griffin e Brian Newman, 2008 UCP
• Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Editado por Jean Comaroff e John L. Comaroff, 2006 UCP
• A Future for Africa - Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination, Emmanuel M. Katongole, 2005 UCP
• The HIV and AIDS Bible - Selected Essays, Musa W. Dube, 2006 Distributed for the University of Scranton Press

Music and Ethnomusicology

• Askew, Kelly: Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania, 2002
  
• Berliner, Paul F.: The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe, 1978
  
• Charry, Eric: Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa, 2000
  
• Chernoff, John Miller: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms, 1979
  
• Coplan, David B.: In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition, 2008
  
• Friedson, M. Steven : Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing, 1996
  
• Friedson, M. Steven : Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land, 2008
  
• Klein, L. Debra: Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans, 2007
  
• Muller, Carol Ann: Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa, 1999
  
• Turino, Thomas: Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe, 2000
  
• Waterman, Christopher Alan: Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music, 1990