Africa -- Social life and customs
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The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)- What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), ed. by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (originally published 1798), by Venture Smith (Gutenberg text)
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America: Related by Himself (New London, CT: Printed by C. Holt, 1798), by Venture Smith
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (Middletown, CT: J. S. Stewart, 1897), by Venture Smith, ed. by H. M. Selden (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Story of an African Chief (New York: C. Scribner and Sons, 1935), by Akiki K. Nyabongo, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps, illust. by Eleanor Maroney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
- Dreams, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
- Egyptian Tales, Translated From the Papyri, ed. by W. M. Flinders Petrie
- A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1898), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Sidney Paget
- Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa (A Convert to Christianity); With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants (Detroit: G.. E. Pomeroy and Co., 1854), by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, ed. by Samuel Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- On the Trail of the Pigmies: An Anthropological Exploration Under the Cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo (ca. 1917), by William H. Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Trail of the Pigmies: An Anthropological Exploration Under the Cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations Among the Mombasa Swahili (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marc J. Swartz (HTML at UC Press)
- Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by J. Terrence McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE (c2008), by Rhonda M. Gonzales (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
- Call Mama Doctor: African Notes of a Young Woman Doctor (1979), by Louise Jilek-Aall (illustrated HTML at mentalhealth.com)
- The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Tale, by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by Arthur Twidle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Captives: By James Leander Cathcart, Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers (LaPorte, IN: Herald print, c1899), by James L. Cathcart, ed. by Jane Bancker Cathcart Newkirk (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara (London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1895), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- De Batna à Tuggurt et au Souf (in French; Paris: Librairie Militaire, 1865), by J. Zaccone
- Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond, by Budgett Meakin
- Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Budgett Meakin (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Life Story (London: E. Arnold, 1912), by Emily Keene Shareefa of Wazan, ed. by S. L. Bensusan, contrib. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Winter in Morocco (London: H.S. King, 1873), by Amelia Perrier
- The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors (London: T. F. Unwin, 1890), by Thomas Pellow, ed. by Robert Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Les Archives Berbères (partial serial archives)
- Tribes of the Rif (Harvard African Studies #9; Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Harvard University, 1931), by Carleton S. Coon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Coos-Coo-Soo: or, Letters From Tangier, in Africa (Philadelphia: J. S. M'Calla, 1859), by G. Fort
- Tunis: The Land and the People (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., ca. 1882), by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
- Among the Huts in Egypt: Scenes from Real Life (London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1871), by M. L. Whately
- Harem Life in Egypt and Constantinople: The English Governess in Egypt (fourth edition, 1 volume; London: R. Bentley, 1867), by Emmeline Lott
- Harem Life in Egypt and Constantinople: The Governess in Egypt (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1865), by Emmeline Lott
- The Leisure of an Egyptian Official (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1921), by Edward Cecil
- Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home (London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1879), by M. L. Whately
- Upper Egypt: Its People and its Products (London: Blackie and Son; et al., 1878), by C. B. Klunzinger, contrib. by Georg August Schweinfurth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Upper Egypt: Its People and its Products (New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1878), by C. B. Klunzinger, contrib. by Georg August Schweinfurth
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Arabian Days and Nights: or, Rays From the East (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1863), by Marguerite A. Power
- Modern Sons of the Pharaohs (London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1918), by S. H. Leeder
- Things Seen in Egypt (London: Seeley and Co., 1910), by E. L. Butcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Things Seen in Egypt (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1911), by E. L. Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Women of Egypt (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1914), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Women of Egypt (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1914), by Elizabeth Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ragged Life in Egypt (London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1863), by M. L. Whately
- Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam (1913), by S. H. Leeder (multiple formats at TIMEA)
- Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by James Morris Morgan
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