Tag Archives: Africa

Review of Colonial Transactions by Florence Bernault

“Colonial Transactions expands our knowledge and refines our understanding of the two themes that stand at its center – witchcraft and colonialism. The book historicizes witchcraft, arguing that history can enhance our understanding of the obsessions and modes of power of modern witchcraft in Africa. It brings closer the allegedly contradictory ideas of the European colonizers and the colonized Africans and discusses them in the same realm.”

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The Sahara Desert, Semester at Sea — The North Star Project, Summer Report Number Thirty-Nine — The Middle Ground Journal

The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief summary, please see a recent

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Book Review Working Group Innovative Student Internship Program Middle Ground Journal A Scholarly Teaching Journal

The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of ten undergraduate and graduate student

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REVIEW OF THE SAHARA: A CULTURAL HISTORY BY EAMONN GEARON Oxford University Press

The Sahara: A Cultural History. Eamonn Gearon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780199861958 For teachers and scholars of world history, the Sahara offers an exciting locale to explore connections between societies. Eamonn Gearon’s The Sahara: A Cultural History offers an introduction to the region’s history as well as its attraction to a wide range of European artists, writers, and

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