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James Currey invites authors to submit proposals for the following series:
African Anthropology
Primary ethnographic research is the foundation for theoretical advance and comparative understanding in anthropology. This remains true today, despite challenges from recent refinements of self-critical awareness in the social sciences. African Anthropology offers original, in-depth, field-based studies from across the African continent, combining factual description with interpretation and reaffirming the continuing relevance of ethnography to the development of theory in social and cultural anthropology. Most titles are single-authored, but edited collections on well-defined topics or regions, with a clear foundation on field-based research, may be considered. The series offers:
- Studies set firmly in specific places, times and communities
- Explorations of the circumstances in which patterns of cultural life, social relations and human experience are formed and transformed
- Historical, regional and comparative dimensions in the interpretation of local phenomena
- Investigative research adding ethnographic depth to debates on pressing global issues
- An antidote to relativism, subjectivism and the treatment of 'cultures' in isolation
Send proposals using the proposal form on this website to djohnson@boydell.co.uk, or print and post it to Douglas H. Johnson, General Editor James Currey, Box 242, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DL, UK.
African issues
African Issues is a ground-breaking series that has opened up debate on many of the critical issues facing the continent. We are looking for the following:
- Short books that explore responses to the crisis in African development
- Brisk books which push forward important debates
- Engaged books which express strong opinions
- Informed books which use local reality to enlighten continent-wide issues
- Demanding books by leading social scientists which focus on complex political emergencies and social issues as they happen
- Contentious books to get students arguing
- Books of academic rigour which are relevant to African and international policy makers and development practitioners
- Books which tackle the pressing issues, such as:
- famine, refugees and other ‘disasters’
- social and political causes of environmental problems
- land and water issues
- the benefits of informal economies
- the pressures on urban and rural environments
- the role of NGOs and international organizations
- the social consequences of armed conflict
- the processes of local politics and 'civil society'
- gender debates
- the impact of globalization
Send proposals using the proposal form on this website to djohnson@boydell.co.uk, or print and post it to Douglas H. Johnson, General Editor James Currey, Box 242, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DL, UK.
African Literature Today (ALT) was founded in 1968 by Eldred and Marjorie Jones and continues to build on its well-established reputation in literary studies with a new team of editors. Each annual volume is based on a specific theme, announced in advance in preceding volumes. Articles should not exceed 5,000 words, and should be submitted double spaced, with two hard copies and a disk to Ernest N. Emenyonu, Dept. of African Studies, University of Michigan-Flint, 303 East Kearsley Street, Flint, MI 48502, USA (email: eernest@umflint.edu). Books for review and review material may be sent to James Gibbs, 8 Victoria Square, Bristol, BS8 4ET, UK (email: jamesgibbs@btinternet.com).
African Theatre
African Theatre (AT), an annual publication, provides a focus for research, critical discussion, information and creativity in the vigorous field of African theatre and performance. Each volume concentrates on a major topic announced in advance in preceding volumes. Through its resolutely Pan-African coverage and its accessible style, AT broadens the debates to all interested in drama and the many roles it plays in contemporary African life. AT also carries a book review section and the text of a previously unpublished play from an African writer. Articles should not exceed 5,000 words, and should be submitted double-spaced on hard copy plus a disk. Illustrations may also be submitted, if accompanied by full captions with any reproduction rights clearly indicated. Material should be sent for consideration to The Editors, African Theatre, 8 Victoria Square, Bristol BS8 4ET, UK. Books for review and review material should be sent to Jane Plastow, School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
The Eastern Africa series continues the multi-disciplinary tradition of the former Eastern African Studies series pioneered by James Currey Publishers and Ohio University Press. It offers a broad definition of the region, encompassing the Nile Valley, the Horn, the Great Lakes, and the countries of the Indian Ocean littoral. Manuscripts may be single-authored, multi-authored or edited collections; about single countries, multiple countries or sub-regions. Many titles are co-published with local publishers in the countries about which they are written. Send proposals using the proposal form on this website to djohnson@boydell.co.uk, or print and post it to Douglas H. Johnson, General Editor James Currey, Box 242, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DL, UK.
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