The study of emotions can hardly be reduced to the question of individual brain states and bodily responses. In a broader perspective, individuals’ embodied experiences are located in different cultural settings, and, consequently, the notion of ‘emotions’ is interpreted with reference to their
The idea for this book emerged as a result of the conference “African studies in the contemporary world”, hosted at the University of Warsaw on 14th October 2014, where some attitudes and methodologies representative for the topics undertaken by scholars dealing with present-day Africa were
The volume presents the current stage of research on Hausa, with particular reference to its cultural background which is readable from the Hausa vocabulary, phraseological expressions and pragmatic aspects of the language structures in the process of communication. It is very valuable monograph
