Microsoft Office 2000 or Perspectives on Africa

Microsoft Office 2000: Introductory Course

Author: William R Pasewark

This comprehensive book covers the introductory concepts of Office 2000. Step-by-step instructions, screen illustrations, tips, notes, summaries, and simulations allow users to hone their critical thinking skills.

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This textbook consists of 31 lessons that introduce the basics of using the Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and FrontPage programs. Spiral binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation

Author: Roy Grinker

Perspectives on Africa brings 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.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Africa in Perspective
1	The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups	11
2	The Nuer: Time and Space	24
3	The Illusion of Tribe	38
4	Ethnicity in Southern African History	52
5	Of Totemism and Ethnicity: Consciousness, Practice and the Signs of Inequality	69
6	Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong	101
7	Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv	119
8	Research on an African Mode of Production	129
9	Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana	142
10	Bitter Money: Forbidden Exchange in East Africa	163
11	The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer	190
12	The Lesson of the Pygmies	218
13	Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire	228
14	Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion	246
15	Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History	269
16	Conversations on Rain-making	299
17	The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events	303
18	Understanding a Primitive Society	312
19	African Traditional Thought and Western Science	327
20	Kinship, Witchcraft and the Market	340
21	Conversations with Ogotemmeli	366
22	African Philosophy, Myth and Reality	379
23	How Man Makes God in West Africa: Yoruba Attitudes Towards the Orisa	392
24	Ancestors as Elders in Africa	412
25	Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among Afikpo Ibo	433
26	Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics	450
27	The Cycle and Stagnation of Smells: Pastoralists-Fishermen Relationships in an East African Society	461
28	In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre	482
29	The Economics of Polygamy	506
30	Women and Men, Cloth and Colonization: The Transformation of Production-Distribution Relations among the Baule (Ivory Coast)	518
31	"Sitting on a Man": Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women	536
32	Body Politics: Sexuality, Gender, and Domestic Service in Zambia	550
33	The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races	574
34	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa	585
35	The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa	597
36	Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary	613
37	Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century	629
38	On National Culture	637
39	Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau	653
40	The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Cote d'Ivoire	671
41	Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination	689
42	Ethnography of Africa: The Usefulness of the Useless	704
43	The Meaning of Our Work	724
44	Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism	728
	Resource Guide: I Journals	732
	Resource Guide: II Bibliographies	733