Papers in the African Humanities
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Papers in the African Humanities (originally titled Discussion Papers in the African Humanities) were first published under the auspices of a three-year collaborative research project at the African Studies Center entitled “African Expressions of the Colonial Experience,” organized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Humanities Papers series has continued since the project ended in 1990 and, as with almost all Center publications, these papers reflect work undertaken by scholars affiliated with the African Studies Center or presented at the Center. They are available in PDF format only.
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Who wears the pants? : Christian missions, migrant labor, and clothing in colonial western Kenya
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1992) -
Maybe heaven, maybe the sky, but definitely up: lingering over words in translating historical texts
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1991) -
Orality, state literacy, and political culture in Ethiopia: Translating the Ras Kassa registers
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1991) -
Principles and passion: capturing the legacy of João dos Santos Albasini
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1989) -
An annotated bibliography of Southern Bantu praise poetry
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1999) -
African traditional religion and earthkeeping in Zimbabwe
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1999) -
Colonialism and the individual: a Nigerian life history
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1992) -
Sittaat: Somali women's songs for "the mothers of the believers"
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 1995) -
Fashioning a modern identity in colonial western Kenya : struggles over clothing in the interwar period
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 2002) -
Ogres, monsters, and demons in the oral narratives of Africa: Dodo, the Hausa example
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 2017)