Johan Pottier

Mark Leopold: Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation of an African Frontier . (World Anthropology.) x, 180 pp. Oxford, Santa Fe and Kampala: James Currey, School of American Research Press and Fountain Publishers, 2005. £16.95. ISBN 1 930618 65 4.

JAN VANSINA: Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom. xvii, 354 pp. Oxford: James Currey; Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2005. £15.95.

Muneera Salem-Murdock and Michael M. Horowitz with Monica Sella (ed.): Anthropology and development in North Africa and the Middle East. (IDA Monographs in Development Anthropology.) [xi], 360 pp. Boulder, CO. and Summertown, Oxford: Westview Press, 1991. £27.

Neil G. Kotler (ed.): Sharing innovation: global perspectives on food, agriculture, and rural development . (Papers and proceedings of a colloquium organized by the Smithsonian Institution.) [xv], 265 pp. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1990.

Jonathan Barker: Rural communities under stress: peasant farmers and the state in Africa. (African Society Today.) xi, 228 pp. Cambridge ,etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £25,

44.50 (paper £8.95,

13.95).

A. F. Robertson: The dynamics of productive relationships: African share contracts in comparative perspective . xx, 321 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £25,

44.50.

J. Henderink and J. J. Sterkenburg: Agricultural commercialization and government policy in Africa . (Monographs from the Africa Studies Centre, Leiden.) xii, 328 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1987. £30.