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Rated Requiem voor een pitbull 6/10

Wants to read Augustine the African

Wants to read The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Rated Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany 8/10

Rated El vigilante de sala. The Museum Guard 6/10

Wants to read The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

Rated Pelgrim 6/10

Wants to read African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

Wants to read Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

Rated All Fours 8/10

Rated Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 6/10

Finished reading De omweg naar Santiago

Rated The Bible: A Very Short Introduction 2/10

Very poor compared to the standard of the other VSI's I have read so far. The other books in the series did a great job in providing a very concise overview of a vast subject. Written by experts yet quite accessible to those unfamiliar with the topic at hand.<br/><br/>John Riches starts rather conventional, outlining the Bible's origins and canonization but one third in slips into a sloppy kind of 'social life of the Bible'. From there on he seems to be cherrypicking from his favourite parts of his own lectures, seemingly unaware he is not writing for theology students. It all lacks both focus and overview. What should have been examples ('Jewish and Christian readings of the Binding of Isaac', 'Galatians through history') are promoted to entire chapters. <br/><br/>His main point: people have read the texts of the Bible in very different ways. His main concern: how to keep people reading the Bible.<br/><br/>Awful read. To be avoided if you don't know much but are curious about the famed book. This doesn't teach you anything you couldn't have figured out yourself ('people have read the texts of the Bible in very different ways').

Rated A Question of Power 8/10

Rated What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky 8/10

Rated De regenvogel 10/10

Rated Hedonia 6/10

Wants to read Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850

Rated GraceLand 8/10

Rated Le pain nu 8/10

Rated Nigeriaanse toestanden 6/10

Rated Voorbedachte daden 2/10

Wants to read The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

Rated Measuring Time 8/10

Rated Sprekend ik: Eenentwintig vertellingen 6/10