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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The anthropology of the post-colonial subject in Botswana (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the seminar 'The anthropology of the (post-)colonial in Southern Africa: A seminar with Jean Comaroff and Wim van Binsbergen', Leiden University, International Centre/CNWS/ASC, 17 March 1995.
Keywords: Africa, Botswana
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Theorie als totem: Een etnografisch pleidooi (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Formal lecture in the seminar 'Westerse modellen en niet-westerse werkelijkheid', CERES/CNWS, Leiden, 25 January 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Tambiah's approach to magic against the background of developments in the anthropology of religion since the late 19th century (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Voordracht, Theme group on Magic and religion in the Ancient Near East, NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, 8 februari 1995.
Keywords: social sciences
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Globalisation avant la lettre? The case of Islamic geomancy and its world-wide spread, ca. 900-1995 CE (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the conference on: 'The global oikumene and the spread of knowledge', organised by the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, on behalf of the Netherlands/Stockholm/Chicago network on globalisation, Sigtuna (Sweden), 9-1
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Cultuur als stokpaard? naar aanleiding van Frits Seliers stuk ''Het antropologisch cultuurbegrip: Enkele opvattingen'' (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the departmental symposium 'Hedendaagse opvattingen over het antropologisch cultuurbegrip', department of cultural anthropology/sociology of development, Free University, 15 December 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Globalisation and decivilisation in urban Botswana: Towards a transcultural aesthetics? (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the EIDOS (European Interuniversity Development Opportunity Studies network) Conference on globalisation and decivilisation, Agricultural University Wageningen, The Netherlands, 14-16 December 1995.
Keywords: Botswana
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Professor en toverdokter (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Performance at the Rotterdam Festival, [ performance on the author's combined identity of professor and African spirit medium ] state room of the Rotterdam Town Hall, 16 September 1995.
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Divinatie antropologisch bezien (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture in the course 'Divinatie en macht' for post-graduate students reading Ancient History, Assyriologie, Classical Languages etc, Free University Amsterdam & Municipal University Amsterdam, 11 October 1995.
Keywords: history
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Antropologie en geschiedenis: paradigma's en ambachtelijkheid (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture delivered before the Ph.D. candidate's seminar, Department of Cultural Anthropology/Sociology of Development, Free University, Amsterdam, 1 December 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Four-tablet divination as trans-regional medical technology in southern Africa (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of religion in Africa

The forms of African divination which revolve around the use of a material apparatus, whose construction and application are more or less institutionalized and professionalized, constitute an important field of medical technology. This paper examines a system of divination...

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, divination, fieldwork, Zimbabwe
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Aspects of democracy and democratisation in Zambia and Botswana : exploring African political culture at the grassroots (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of contemporary African studies

The current discussion on democratization in Africa tends towards Eurocentrism in that it pays insufficient attention to the analytical and methodological implications of cultural imperialism, localization, wrongly claimed universality, and the social price of relativism....

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, democracy, democratization, fieldwork, Kalanga, Nkoya, Tswana, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Towards local management of natural resources in Senegal (1995)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; J.P.M. van den Breemer; R.R. Bergh
Editors: J.P.M. van den Breemer; C.A. Drijver; L.B. Venema
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Local resources management in Africa
Keywords: Africa, Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Les institutions et les pratiques locales (1995)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; B. Moussa Ba
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: La gestion des ressources naturelles au Mali
Keywords: Mali
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Entreprises et entrepreneurs africains (1995)
S.D.K. Ellis; Y.A. Fauré
Type of publication: Book

Les quarante-trois contributions qui composent cet ouvrage multidisciplinaire et qui couvrent toute l'Afrique subsaharienne veulent proposer une synthèse de l'univers entrepreneurial africain. Elles ont été regroupées en quatre parties: 1) Le fait entrepreneurial...

Keywords: entrepreneurs, private enterprises, Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Afrika nu : mensen, beleid en instellingen (1995)
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, policy
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Nigeria: een onmogelijke dictatuur (1995)
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator

De auteur behandelt een aantal van de problemen waarmee Nigeria momenteel te kampen heeft. Hij gaat eerst in op het probleem van de regionale machtsverdeling. De noordelijke politieke elites, die voortdurend met elkaar concurreren, kunnen alleen regeren door coalities te...

Keywords: Nigeria, political change, political conditions
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Liberia 1989-1994 : a study of ethnic and spiritual violence (1995)
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society

This article deals with the civil war which broke out in Liberia on 24 December 1989, when 100 or more fighters claiming allegiance to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), led by Charles Taylor, advanced over the border from Côte d'Ivoire to attack the town of...

Keywords: 1991, civil war, Liberia, peace, violence
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa : where did it come from? Can it be supported? (1995)
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Book

On the whole, the recent introduction or reintroduction of multiparty systems in Africa has not produced economic recovery and it may not have produced the purely political results which reformers had hoped for. Of paramount importance in Africa is the way in which foreign...

Keywords: Africa, Country, democracy, democratization, South Africa, Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ethiopie: le dilemme entre ethnicité et "démocratisation" (1995)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Politique africaine
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Medicinal and ritual plants of the Ethiopean southwest: an account of recent research (1995)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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