Pamela Reynolds
A graduate of Cape Town, Delhi, and Harvard universities, Dr. Reynolds has been a Research Fellow at the Universities of Zimbabwe and Cape Town. She is the author of several children’s books and of Growing up in a Divided Society: The Contexts of Childhood in South Africa and Children in Crossroads: Cognition and Society in South Africa.
Author of…
Dance Civet Cat
Tonga Children and Labour in the Zambezi Valley
In this, the first comprehensive study of the Tonga people in Zimbabwe, Pamela Reynolds focuses on children’s work in a subsistence agricultural system, assessing how much work they do, the value of their work to their families and how it both limits their opportunities and fosters their personal growth and knowledge.…
Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe
Based on the author’s fieldwork among the people of Zezuru, this study focuses on children as clients and as healers in training. In Reynolds’s ethnographic investigation of possession and healing, she pays particular attention to the way healers are identified and authenticated in communities, and how they are socialized in the use of medicinal plants, dreams, and ritual healing practices.…
- Remco Raben
Senior researcher in Asian history at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam and teaches history at Utrecht University… - Liliane Ramarosoa
On the faculty at the Université d’Antananarivo… - Mamphela Ramphele
- Dale B. J. Randall
Author of numerous essays and books… - Richard Rathbone
Professor of modern African history at University of London… - Frank T. Read
Currently a professor of law… - Nancy A. Recchie
Historic preservation consultant who lives in Columbus, Ohio… - Sean Redding
Professor of history at Amherst College… - Brian G. Redmond
John Otis Hower Chair and Curator of Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History… - John Robert Reed
Professor of English at Wayne State University… - Richard Reid
Lecturer in history at the University of Durham… - Richard J. Reid
- Ria Reiss
- Jack Reynolds
Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania… - Margaret Reynolds
- Pamela Reynolds
- Nancy L. Rhoades
Author of Croquet, a history of the game… - David A. J. Richards
Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University… - Paul Richards
Professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a professor of anthropology at University College, London… - Conrad Richter
Born in Pennsylvania… - Stephen Riggs
- June Carver Roberts
- Steven L. Robins
Associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa… - Blake Robinson
Translator from French and Italian… - David Robinson
University Distinguished Professor of History and African Studies at Michigan State University… - William H. Robinson
- Thomas Rodney
- Raúl Rojas
Guatemalan writer and doctor currently doing his residency in Houston, Texas… - Catherine M. Rokicky
Assistant professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College… - Eva Evers Rosander
Senior research fellow in social anthropology at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden… - Jennifer Rose
Author of The Old Direction of Heaven(2000) and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Poetry Society of America, among others… - Peter I. Rose
Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College… - R. S. Rose
Visiting professor in history at the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil… - Steven M. Rosen
Emeritus professor of psychology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York… - David M. E. Roskies
- Barry Roth
Professor of English at Ohio University, in Athens, where he lives with his wife and son on thirty wooded acres, listens to Mozart, and reads Jane Austen… - Patrick Royer
- Jacqueline Jones Royster
- Carol Rubenstein
American poet with a background of studies in anthropology and mythology… - Steven C. Rubert
- Paul D. Ruffin
- Kumar Rupesinghe
Senior research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)… - Peggy A. Russo
Assistant professor of English at the Mont Alto campus of Pennsylvania State University… - Elissa Minor Rust
