The Culture Corner

Life of The Mind 2004: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The following titles have been selected for the Fall 2004 Culture Corner. The selected resources relate to Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, and other themes found in the 2004 Life of the Mind Book: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith. The selected resources on Africa offer an introduction to the history, geography, architecture, literature, and people of that continent, and illustrate the diversity that exists in Africa as a whole. Themes featured from the Life of the Mind book include private investigation, domestic violence, and grief.

The following list is divided into seven main categories with twenty-one sub-categories. Books are listed in call number order within each category. ALL BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CHECK-OUT.

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African Culture

Art
Cultures & Ethnicity in Africa
Literature
Religion

The African Continent

Botswana & Sub-Saharan Africa
Comprehensive Resources
History of Africa

Physical Environment

Architecture
Climate & Nature

Private Investigation

African Economy

Class Systems
General Economy
Measures of Wealth

Also by the Author

Social Issues in Africa

AIDS
Domestic Violence
Education
Family
Gender
Grief (Loss of a Child)
Agrarian and Urban Lifestyles

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*African Culture*
Call Number	Title	Author
Art
GN 645.C34 1996	Isn't S/he a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture	Cameron, Elisabeth Lynn
GN 645.S39 1976	Masks of Black Africa	Segy, Ladislas
GV 1705.A47 1996	African Dance: An Artistic, Historical, and Philosophical Inquiry	Asante, Kariamu Welsh (ed.)
N 7380.B32 1998	The Tribal Arts of Africa	Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste
N 7380.H54 2001	A History of Art in Africa	Visona, Monica Blackmun, etal. (eds.)
N 7391.65.C66 1996	Contemporary Art of Africa	Magnin, Andre and Jacques Soulillou (eds.)
N 7391.65.M28 2002	Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back	McClusky, Pamela
N 7391.65.P48	South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art	Petridis, Constantine
N 7392.A741 1990	Art from South Africa	Museum of Modern Art
Cultures & Ethnicity in Africa
DT 4.5.M37 2000	Africa, Africa	Schetar, Daniela
DT 14.M39 1986	The Africans: A Triple Heritage	Mazrui, Ali A.
DT 14.P68 2003	The Power of African Cultures	Falola, Toyin
DT 15.R54 1996	African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology	Rigby, Peter
DT 30.5.H34 1997	Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa	Hameso, Seyoum Y.
DT 352.42.E86	Ethnicity in Modern Africa	du Toit, Brian M. (ed.)
DT 737.T9	Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa	Tyrrell, Barbara
DT 1058.K83 U35 1993	The Kua: Life and Soul of the Central Kalahari Bushmen	Valiente-Noailles, Carlos
DT 1058.S36B37 1992	Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples	Barnard, Alan
DT 1768.S36K34 1999	Profiles of Healing: Kalahari Bushmen Healers	Keeney, Bradford (ed.)
GN 496.K65 2003	Negative Ethnicity: From Bias to Genocide	Wamwere, Koigi wa
GN 645.B43 2000	Passages: Photographs in Africa	Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher
GN 645.C345 1997	Western Primitivism: African Ethnicity - A Study in Cultural Relations	Campbell, Aidan
GN 645.M85 1996	Gathering Under the Mango Tree: Values in Traditional Culture in Africa	Mungazi, Dickson A.
GN 656.M34 1998	Vanishing Cultures of South Africa: Changing Customs in a Changing World	Magubane, Peter
GN 657.Z32D38 1997	Gender, Lineage, and Ethnicity in Southern Africa	Davison, Jean
GR 358.Q47 2000	The Quest for Fruition through NGOMA: Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa	van Dijk, Rijk, Ria Reis, and Marja Spierenburg
Literature
GR 350.C67 1996	A Treasury of African Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Myths, Legends, Epics, Tales, Recollections, Wisdom, Sayings, and Humor of Africa	Courlander, Harold
GR 358.2.B83 L48 1997	Why Ostriches Don't Fly and Other Tales from the African Bush	Lewis, I. Murphy
GR 358.2.L49 2000	Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of Southern Africa	Lewis-Williams, David
GR 358.82 .J83B53 1993	Women Like Meat	Biesele, Megan
GR 359.O73 1999	Oral Literature & Performance in Southern Africa	Brown, Duncan
GR 359.S337 2002	The Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry & Narrative	Scheub, Harold
GR 359.S34 1996	The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storyteller and Apartheid	Scheub, Harold
GR 360.B3S3 1962	Basuto Fireside Tales	Savory, Phyllis
PL 8011.U7 1997	Under African Skies: Modern African Stories	Larson, Charles R.
PL 8013.E5O8 1914	Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-lore Tales	Metelerkamp, Sanni
PL 8013.E5T7 cop. 2	Classic Black African Poems	Trask, Willard R.
PR 9344.O8 1995	African Children's and Youth Literature	Osa, Osayimwense
PR 9345.N49 1996	New Writing from Southern Africa: Authors Who Have Become Prominent Since 1980	Ngara, Emmanuel (ed.)
PR 9345.W66 2003	Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region	Daymond, M. J., etal. (eds.)
PR 9347.M63 2002	Modern African Drama: Backgrounds and Criticism	Jeyifo, Biodun
PR 9358.2.B57W38 1989b	Black Writers from South Africa: Towards a Discourse of Liberation	Watts, Jane
PR 9361.2.K78 1999	The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910	Kruger, Loren
Religion
BL 2400.F67 1999	The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa	Ford, Clyde W.
BL 2400.S24 2000	A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller	Scheub, Harold
BL 2462.5.M34 1997	African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life	Magesa, Laurenti
BL 2480.S24G84	Tricksters and Trancers: Bushman Religion and Society	Guenther, Mathias
BP 64.A1B69 1983	African Islam	Bravmann, Rene A.
BR 1360.A54 1995	An African Prayer Book	Tutu, Desmond
BR 1360.B38 1998	2000 Years of Christianity in Africa: An African Church History	Baur, John
BR 1360.O38	Biblical Christianity in Modern Africa	O'Donovan, Bill
OVERSIZE GN 645.B4 1999 v. 1	African Ceremonies	Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher
OVERSIZE GN 645.B4 1999 v. 2	African Ceremonies	Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher
GN 657.M15M67 1998	The Power of Animals: An Ethnography	Morris, Brian
GN 657.M15M67 2000	Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography	Morris, Brian
HT 919.A98 2001	The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue	Azumah, John Alembillah
N 72.R4H25 1996	Art and Religion in Africa	Hackett, Rosalind I. J.

*The African Continent*
Call Number	Title	Author
Botswana & Sub-Saharan Africa
DT 4.5.M35 2000	Mon Afrique: Photographs of Sub-Saharan Africa by Pascal Maitre	Maitre, Pascal and Jean-Claude Nouveliere
DT 352.A37 2002	Africa South of the Sahara 2002	Europa Publications
DT 1166.U53 2000	The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa	Bradshaw, York and Stephen N. Ndegwa (eds.)
DT 2452.S844 2002	A Bagful of Locusts and the Baboon Woman: Constructions of Gender, Change, and Continuity in Botswana	Suggs, David N.
DT 2458.S26 S28 2001	The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote Area Development in Botswana, Donor Assistance, and the First People of the Kalahari	Saugestad, Sidsel
DT 2458.T93M67 2002	Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana	Motzafi-Haller, Pnina
DT 2496.D35 1995	Botswana's Search for Autonomy in Southern Africa	Dale, Richard
HC 517.B6P3	Papers on the Economy of Botswana	Harvey, Charles
HC 930.Z9E57 1996	Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Botswana	Perrings, Charles
HD 996.Z63S87 1994	Sustainable Development in Botswana: An Analysis of Resource Management in Three Communal Development Areas	Barnhoorn, F., etal. (eds.)
HN 800.Z9C68 1977	Botswana: Rural Development in the Shadow of Apartheid	Vengroff, Richard
HT 384.A356U73 1992	Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africa	Drakakis-Smith, David (ed.)
Comprehensive Resources
DT 6.7.R43 2001	Africa	Reader, John
DT 14.G385 1999	Wonders of the African World	Gates Jr., Henry Louis
DT 20.O386 2000	The African Experience: From Olduvai Gorge to the 21st Century	Oliver, Roland
DT 31.S37 2000	African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation	Schraeder, Peter J.
GN 645.P47 1997	Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation	Grinker, Roy Richard and Christopher B. Steiner
HC 800.C67513 1988	Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara	Coqery-Vidrovitch, Catherine
History of Africa
DT 19.A344 2001	African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History	White, Luise, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen (eds.)
DT 20.F33 2002	A History of Africa	Fage, J. D. and William Tordoff
DT 25.D29	African Kingdoms	Davidson, Basil
DT 352.3.C66 2001	African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective	Connah, Graham

*Physical Environment*
Call Number	Title	Author
Architecture
GN 645.D444 1978	African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective	Denyer, Susan
GT 373.O4 1971b	Shelter in Africa	Oliver, Paul (ed.)
GT 373.W34	African Village	Walton, James
GT 377.W4G3713	Indigenous African Architecture	Gardi, Rene
NA 1580.E44 1997	African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation	Elleh, Nnamdi
NA 1592.P53	Victorian Buildings in South Africa	Picton-Seymour, Desiree
NA 1597.6.K4A5	African Traditional Architecture: A Study of the Housing and Settlement Patterns of Rural Kenya	Andersen, Kaj Blegvad
NA 1598.B68 1996	Drawn From African Dwellings	Bourdier, Jean-Paul and Trinh T. Minh-ha
Climate & Nature
DT 12.25.M3713 2000	The Deserts of Africa	Martin, Michael
QC 991.A1C4	Climates of Africa	Griffiths, J. F. (ed.)
QC 991.S7P73 1988	The Atmosphere and Weather of Southern Africa	Preston-Whyte, R. A. and P. D. Tyson
QK 396.E45	Discovering Wild Flowers in Southern Africa	Eliovson, Ezra
QK 396.R5	Families of Flowering Plants of Southern Africa	Riley, Herbet Parkes
QL 692.A356 S563 2003	Birds of Africa: South of the Sahara	Sinclair, Ian and Peter Ryan
QL 692.A435N47 1996	Newman's Birds of Southern Africa: The Green Edition	Newman, Kenneth
QL 692.S66N48	Birdlife in Southern Africa	Newman, Kenneth (ed).

*Private Investigation*
Call Number	Title	Author
HV 7911.P4675M33 1997	Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye	Mackay, James
HV 8073.C595 2002	Encyclopedia of Forensic Science: A Compendium of Detective Fact and Fiction	Conklin, Barbara Garnder, Robert Gardner and Dennis Shortelle
HV 8073.G889 2003	The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook	Gudjonsson, Gisli H.
HV 8073.K39 1995	Science and the Detective: Selected Reading in Forensic Science	Kaye, Brian H.
HV 8073.K4744 1994	Practical Investigation Techniques	Kinnee, Kevin B.
HV 8083.G74A3 1988	Finder: The True Story of a Private Investigator	Greene, Marilyn and Gary Provost
HV 8088.P66 1998	Bounty Hunters, Marshals, and Sheriffs: Forward to the Past	Pope, Jacqueline
HV 8093.M36 2001	Practical Handbook for Private Investigators	McMahon, Rory J.
J 28.24/3:C 86/6	Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement	Technical Working Group on Crime Scene Investigation
KF 9660.P87 1989	Psychological Methods in Criminal Investigation and Evidence	Raskin, David C. (ed.)
PN 4781.R38 1996	The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques	Weinberg, Steve

*African Economy*
Call Number	Title	Author
Class Systems
DT 28.F73 1998	The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society Since 1800	Freund, Bill
GF 758.J33 2003	Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History	Jacobs, Nancy Joy
HC 800.Z9I5136 1988	Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants, and the Poor	Nafziger, E. Wayne
HN 773.C53 2002	Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa	Zeilig, Leo (ed.)
HN 773.S62	Social Stratification in Africa	Tuden, Arthur and Leonard Plotnicov (eds.)
HN 780.Z9S65	Class Struggle in Africa	Nkrumah, Kwame
JQ 1879.A15H34 2002	Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance	Harrison, Graham
P 40.5.S632N66 1990	Class, Language and Education: Class Struggle and Sociolinguistics in an African Situation	Newsum, H. E.
General Economy
HC 800.A1A373	African Economic Outlook 2002/2003	OECD
HC 800.H633 1991b	The Economies of Africa: Geography, Population, History, Stability, Structure, Performance Forecasts	Hodd, Michael
Measures of Wealth
DT 352.2.L43 2000	Mr. Bigstuff and the Goddess of Charm: Parties, Cars, Love & Ambition South of the Sahara	Ledger, Fiona Sax
GN 656.K86 1982	Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa	Kuper, Adam
GN 658.S64 1998	The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa	Spencer, Paul
HD 966.L34 1988	Land and Society in Contemporary Africa	Downs, R. E., and S. P. Reyna (eds.)
HD 969.S8P7	People and Land in Africa South of the Sahara: Readings in Social Geography	Prothero, R. Mansell (ed.)
HN 806.A8M783	Man and Cattle in Africa: A Study of Social Change in Pastoral Societies in Botswana	Mtetwa, Jonathan

*Also by the Author*
Call Number	Title	Author
K 4365.M47 2001	Errors, Medicine, and the Law	Merry, Alan and Alexander McCall Smith
K 5015.S56 2000	Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes: Balancing Legal, Psychological, and Moral Concerns	Shuman, Daniel W. and Alexander McCall Smith
PR 6063.C326 F85 2003	The Full Cupboard of Life	Smith, Alexander McCall
PR 6063.C326 H43 2003	Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations	Smith, Alexander McCall
PR 6063.C326 K35 2003	The Kalahari Typing School for Men	Smith, Alexander McCall
PR 6063.C326 M67 2002	Morality for Beautiful Girls	Smith, Alexander McCall
PR 6063.C326 S86 2004	The Sunday Philosophy Club	Smith, Alexander McCall
PR 6063.C326 T4 2001	Tears of the Giraffe	Smith, Alexander McCall

*Social Issues in Africa*
Call Number	Title	Author
AIDS
HV 1337.G84 2003	Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis	Guest, Emma
RA 643.86.A35 H554 2004	HIV & AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology	Kalipeni, Ezekiel, etal. (eds.)
RA 643.86.A35 H86 2003	Black Death: AIDS in Africa	Hunter, Susan S.
RA 643.86.A35 H862 2003	Who Cares? AIDS in Africa	Hunter, Susan S.
RA 643.86.S6 I464 2002	Impacts and Interventions: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Children of South Africa	Gow, Jeff and Chris Desmond
RA 644.A25A3435 1999	AIDS and Development in Africa: A Social Science Perspective	Hope, Kempe Ronald
Domestic Violence
HV 6250.4.W65G74 1999	Gender Violence in Africa: African Women's Responses	Green, December
HV 6250.4.W65S77 2000	States of Conflict: Gender, Violence, and Resistance	Jacobs, Susie, Ruth Jacobson, and Jen Marchbank (eds.)
HV 6626.D64 2002	Domestic Violence: A Global View	Summers, Randal W. and Allan M. Hoffman (eds.)
HV 6626.23.D44T6 1999	To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating	Counts, Dorothy Ayers, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell (eds.)
Education
LA 1501.A27 2003	Achieving Schooling for All in Africa: Costs, Commitment, and Gender	Colclough, Christopher, etal.
LA 1501.E367 2002	Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradigm Lost?	Moulton, Jeanne, etal.
LA 1501.M82 1997	Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa	Mungazi, Dickson A. and L. Kay Walker
LA 1501.S35 1998	Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa	Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski
LA 1501.T43 1995	Sankofa: African Thought and Education	Tedla, Elleni
LA 1503.A44 1996	The African Experience with Higher Education	Ajayi, J. F. Ade, Lameck K.H. Goma, and G. Ampah Johnson
LA 1503.H558 1987	Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa	Hinchliffe, Keith
LA 1536.E36 1982	Education, Race, and Social Change in South Africa	Marcum, John A. (ed.)
Family
GN 645.N82 1994	Nuptiality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives	Bledosoe, Caroline and Gilles Pison (eds.)
HQ 766.5.A33C35	Child-Spacing in Tropical Africa: Traditions and Change	Page, Hilary J. and Ron Lesthaeghe
HQ 766.5.A357F32 1993	Factors Affecting Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa	National Research Council
HQ 766.5.D44C75 1999	Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World	National Research Council
HQ 777.5B7 1993	Support Systems in the Life Situation of Children of Divorce	Braude, Diane, and Frieda H. Francisco-La Grange
HQ 1787.A3715 2001	African Women and Children: Crisis and Response	Rwomire, Apollo
RJ 387.A25 C485 2003	The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility	Singhal, Arvind and W. Stephen Howards (eds.)
Gender
DT 1948.M33 2004	Strike a Woman, Strike a Rock: Fighting for Freedom in South Africa	MacLean, Barbara Hutmacher
DT 2458.K84 G75 1997	In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community	Griffiths, Anne M. O.
GN 4.L6 no. 69	Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa	Moore, Henrietta L., Todd Sanders, and Bwire Kaare
GN 645.H43 1993	Iron, Gender and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies	Herbert, Eugenia W.
HQ 1240.5.A35 K48 2004	Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works	Kevane, Michael
HQ 1788.A57 1995	African Women South of the Sahara	Hay, Margaret Jean and Sharon Stichter (eds.)
HQ 1793.5.H28	Sisters Under the Sun: The Story of Sudanese Women	Hall, Marjorie and Bakhita Amin Ismail
HQ 1800.J63 1992	Women on the Frontline: Voices from Southern Africa	Johnson, Chris
HQ 1800.5.R67 1998	Profiles in Diversity: Women in the New South Africa	Romero, Patricia W.
N 7392.A77 1996	Women and Art in South Africa	Arnold, Marion
PR 9348.W66 1997	Women in Folktales and Short Stories of Africa: An Anthology	Liyong, Taban lo (ed.)
Grief (Loss of a Child)
BF 575.G5B47 1997	When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter	Bernstein, Judith R.
BF 575.G7E33 1984	Maternal Bereavement: Coping with the Unexpected Death of a Child	Edelstein, Linda
BF 575.G7F55 1996	After the Death of a Child: Living With Loss Through the Years	Finkbeiner, Ann K.
BF 575.G7J625 1987	After a Child Dies: Counseling Bereaved Families	Johnson, Sherry E.
BF 575.G7K6 1986	Beyond Endurance: When a Child Dies	Knapp, Ronald J.
BF 575.G7P365 1986	Parental Loss of a Child	Rando, Therese A.
BF 675.G7M87 2003	The Lively Shadow: Living with the Death of a Child	Murray, Donald M
Agrarian and Urban Lifestyles
DT 2458.H47 P46 1993	The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community: Demography, History, and Ecology of the Ngamiland Herero	Pennington, Renee and Henry Harpending
GN 645.H45 1991	Herders, Warriors, and Traders: Pastoralism in Africa	Galaty, John G. and Pierre Bonte
GN 645.S57 1992	Pastoralism in Africa: Origins and Development Ecology	Smith, Andrew B.
HD 2120.S8B37 1989	Rural Communities Under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa	Barker, Jonathan
HN 773.5.O26 1991	Poverty in Africa: A Geographical Approach	O'Connor, Anthony
HN 777.S63 2001	Social Problems in Africa: New Visions	Rwomire, Apollo
HN 792.A8F73 2000	Making a Living: Changing Livelihoods in Rural Africa	Francis, Elizabeth
HT 148.A357O25 1983b	The African City	O'Connor, Anthony
HT 148.S8P45 1984a	African Urban Society	Peil, Margaret and Pius O. Sada