Product Description: "Black Paris" documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. Based on long-term ethnographic, archival, and historical research, the work is enriched by interviews with many writers of the new generation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Jules-Rosette, Bennetta

Product Description: This volume is an important and original collection of firsthand field reports and essays on contemporary African cults and churches. Using comprehensive ethnographic information, this volume focuses on the importance of religion as an agent and symbol of social change in emerging African nations, and the changing roles of gender in African society...read more

Product Description: Based on research in two African communities, this volume presents a new methodology for examining visual media--one that suggests a phenomenology of filmmaking and an ethnography of mediated communication. Comprehensively developed and discusses, this methodology can be used for analysis of any informant-made visual communication...read more

Product Description: Ritual and conversion in the church of John Maranke. dw, 1975, 302pp