This volume discusses 332 articles referring to 'Africans' published between 1770 and 1800 in German periodicals. It analyses them with particular reference to skin colour ('race'), ethnography and the Atlantic slave trade, demonstrating some of the contradictions which characterised images of Africans in this period. / Dieser Band erörtert 332 Artikel bezogen auf 'Afrikaner', die zwischen 1770 und 1800 in deutschen Zeitschriften veröffentlicht wurden. Er analysiert sie mit besonderem Bezug auf die Hautfarbe ('Rasse'), Ethnographie und den atlantischen Sklavenhandel, wobei die Widersprüche demonstriert werden, welche für die Darstellung von Afrikanern/Afrikanerinnen in dieser Zeit charakteristisch waren.

This volume is a study based on archival sources concerning a firm based in Leipzig which acquired land in German East Africa (near the coast of what is today Tanzania) in 1907 for the purpose of growing cotton. When the cotton crop was destroyed by leaf curl, the firm turned to sisal as an alternative crop. / Dieser Band ist eine auf Archivquellen basierende Studie bezüglich einer Firma aus Leipzig, die 1907 Land in Ostafrika (nah an der Küste, im heutigen Tansania) erlangte, um Baumwolle zu pflanzen. Als die Baumwoll-Ernte durch die Kräuselkrankheit zerstört wurde, wandte sich die Firma dem Sisal als alternative Nutzpflanze zu.

This volume deals with the relationship between German Protestant missionary societies and African initiation rites in what is now South Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses upon the Moravian Church, the Berlin Mission and the Hermannsburg Mission, drawing upon the periodicals which these missionary societies published. It is shown that initiation rites in many cases constituted a major arena of conflict.

This volume examines the relationship between female beauty ideals and concepts of femininity in different ethnic groups. Understanding the body as a carrier of social and cultural signs, it attempts to connect the direct and indirect implications of specific techniques of body modification with the social roles of women within their respective ethnic groups.

This volume looks at the conflicts, innovations and structural changes that HIV / AIDS has brought to institutions of southwestern Tanzania with regard to moral and social order. It describes existing religious and biomedical strategies to deal with the crisis.

This volume deals with the exchange of spatial knowledge that accompanied the nineteenth-century European exploration of what are today eastern Senegambia and southwestern Mali. The travelogues of Raffenel and Gallieni are analysed with regard to how spatial information was negotiated, under what conditions it was transmitted and what problems arose. The dependence of the two Frenchmen on African informants is demonstrated, and in some cases it can be shown that they incorporated African spatial knowledge into their monographs and maps.

The city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is still influenced by its colonial structure. This is particularly apparent in the former 'European quarter' Oyster Bay and its perception by the inhabitants of other parts of the city. On the basis of aerial photographs and interviews with people who lived in the city under British colonial rule as well as younger inhabitants this study analyses the extent to which Oyster Bay can be seen as 'heterotopia' in Foucault's sense. The focus is upon the social function of Oyster Bay as an 'other place' for the rest of the city.

This volume is devoted to the contemporary Nigerian prophet T. B. Joshua, whose healings and prophecies are famous far beyond the borders of Nigeria. The study analyses the impact of his use of the media upon the development of healing and prophecy. It deals with globalisation on the one hand and growing intimacy on the other, as well as with new forms of healing.

In the eastern half of Germany migrants remain a small minority and find themselves surrounded by a predominantly secular society. In examining how Christian migrants from Africa achieve social integration within Leipzig, this study focuses on the relationship between integration and identity. Paradoxically, an African identity can promote integration where the structure of local parishes allows this.

This volume contains the text of the first systematic ethnographic survey of the 'Rivières du Sud' of coastal Guinea-Conakry, describing the 'Mandingo', Susu, Baga, Nalu, and Landuma peoples. Butscher's manuscript, here published for the first time, has been annotated and supplemented with an introduction and the text of a brief anonymous study of the Mandingo. The edition also includes two maps and a detailed index to the original report.