Oxford University Press

This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices        and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to        abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It        focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions....

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This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics. It deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages. Terry Crowley shows how to prepare for that task, and how to record, analyse, and describe languages in the filed. Mixing formal instruction and anecdote, the author shares his rich...

Konadu calls attention to the historic formation of Akan culture in West Africa and its reach into the Americas. He examines the Akan experience in Guyana, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, former Danish and Dutch colonies, and North America, and how those early experiences foreground the contemporary engagement and movement of diasporic Africans and...

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