Publications

The African Studies Centre Leiden currently publishes eight different series. Books published in the ASCL Collection Series and Occasional Publications Series can be ordered from the Webshop or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long they are in stock. Book series published by Brill can be ordered directly from the publisher, or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long as they are in stock.
If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Mrs. Maaike Westra (m.a.westra@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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Discourses of transubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Pentecostalism at Home and Abroad conference, Manchester, 11 April 1997
Keywords: diaspora, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper persented at the International Conference on Globalisation, Development and the Making of Consumers: What Are Collective Identities For?' The Hague, 13-16 March 1997
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 13th Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester, 19-22 April 1997
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Religion: the City and Beyond conference organised by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), Toulouse, 7-11 July 1997
Keywords: diaspora
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Fulbe "shaykh"and the Bambara "pagans": contemporary campaigns to spread Islam in Mali (1997)
B.F. Soares
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Peuls et Mandingues : dialectique des constructions identitaires

This chapter looks at a high-profile Fulbe Muslim religious leader from Mali and explores his relations with the people of the Mande. This Muslim religious leader, El-Hadj Cheikh Sidy Modibo Kane Diallo of Dilly, in the circle of Nara, is perhaps one of the most influential...

Keywords: Bambara, biographies (form), Country, Fulani, Islam, Islamization, Mali, Rural
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Nigeria's economic crisis: bibliographic sources to 1996 (1997)
B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Other

This bibliography developed in conjunction with the research project "Money morals: the decline of the naira in the social life and popular culture of Nigeria, 1985-1995", undertaken by Jane Guyer and LaRay Denzer (Northwestern University). It covers material on...

Keywords: banking, Bibliographies (form), credit, economic policy, economic recession, inflation, Nigeria
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Land reform in Africa : lessons from Kenya (1997)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Editors: A.L. Naerssen; M.M.E.M. Rutten; A. Zoomers
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The diversity of development : essays in honour of Jan Kleinpenning

Access to land is increasingly becoming a problem in Africa as a result both of population growth and tenure reforms. The standard argument for tenure reform centres on the role of uncertainty in discouraging investment on land held without long-term security. The rationale...

Keywords: Africa, colonialism, farmers, history, Kenya, land reform, policy, South Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Van Eratosthenes tot Jan Kleinpenning. Verleden en toekomst van het geografisch onderzoek aan de KUN, in het bijzonder met betrekking tot Afrika (1997)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Editors: A.J. Dietz; J.M.G. Kleinpenning; A.L. van Naerssen; M.M.E.M. Rutten; J.G. Smit
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: SGO in Reünie
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ecotoerisme in Kenia: een praktijkvoorbeeld (1997)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Onderwijs wereldreis - Derde Wereld, vrede, milieu en mensenrechten
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Africa's food problematics and the world economy: proposed external remedies (1997)
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at a seminar of the Wageningen Agricultural University, Department of Human Nutrition, 24 November 1997
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Alternative models of intercontinental interaction towards the earliest Cretan script (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Black Athena : Ten years After, special issue

On June 28, 1996, a conference was held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, on controversies originating from Martin Bernal's study 'Black Athena: the Afro-Asiatic roots of classical civilization' (1987, 1991). Papers were presented by Wim van Binsbergen,...

Keywords: 1991, 1996, Africa, African studies, Antiquity, conference papers (form), cultural history, Greece
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ethnicity and identity in Central Africa (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Introductory address to the international identity in Africa conference, CNWS/CA, 1997.
Keywords: Africa, ethnicity, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Globalization, consumption, development (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Keynote address to the international conference of EIDOS (European Inter-university Development Opportunities Study-group) and WOTRO, Globalisation and the construction of communual identities, African Studies Centre, 13-16 March 1997
Keywords: African studies, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Rethinking Africa's contribution to global cultural history: lessons from a comparative historical analysis of mankala board-games and geomantic divination (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Black Athena: Ten years After, special issue

On June 28, 1996, a conference was held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, on controversies originating from Martin Bernal's study 'Black Athena: the Afro-Asiatic roots of classical civilization' (1987, 1991). Papers were presented by Wim van Binsbergen,...

Keywords: 1991, Africa, African studies, history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Anna's room: A case study on becoming a consumer in Francistown, Botswana (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the International Conference on African Women and Globalisation, Université Catholique Louvain-la-Neuve and Belgian Association of Africanists, 12-13 December; also at the International Conference on Globalisation, Consumption and Deve
Keywords: Botswana, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Reconciliation: perspectives from cultural anthropology (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Reconciliation study day, Centre for Spiritual Resourcing, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 9 October 1997
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Sensus communis as a desperate struggle for identity: lessons from the production of nostalgic political and artistic forms in rural Zambia today (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented before the Dutch-Flemish Association for Intercultural Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 19 September 1997
Keywords: identity, Rural, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Sensus communis or sensus dissensionis? A critique of Kant's concept inspired by a social science approach to expressive symbolic production (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Common Sense (Sensus Communis) in Arts and Politics in Western and Non-Western Philosophies conference, organised by the Dutch-Flemish Association for Intercultural Philosophy and the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotter
Keywords: politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Black Athena : ten years after : towards a constructive re-assessment (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Black Athena : Ten years After, special issue

On June 28, 1996, a conference was held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, on controversies originating from Martin Bernal's study 'Black Athena: the Afro-Asiatic roots of classical civilization' (1987, 1991). Papers were presented by Wim van Binsbergen,...

Keywords: 1991, 1996, Africa, African studies, Antiquity, conference papers (form), cultural history, Greece
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Virtuality as a key concept in the study of globalisation : aspects of the symbolic transformation of contemporary Africa (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

The author concentrates on virtuality, which he has come to regard as one of the key concepts for characterizing and understanding the forms of globalization in Africa. Chapters 1 and 2 define virtuality and globalization and provisionally indicate their theoretical...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, globalization, Malawi, Rural, social change, witchcraft, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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