Publications

This paper examines how the labour migration of Swazi homestead members to South Africa affects the homestead as a solidarity group. After an introduction in which he discusses the conditions which make a group a solidarity group and their applicability to the Swazi homestead...

Deze studie beschrijft een politiek-historisch proces en vormt een bijdrage aan de systematische studie van internationale territoriale conflicten vanuit het gezichtspunt van de politieke geografie. Tevens worden aspecten van het Europese imperialisme van de late 19e eeuw...

This report is the first in a series dealing with food supply and nutrition among labourers on large farms in Trans Nzoia District, Kenya. It examines two important aspects of the labourers' food and nutritional situation, i.e. the incomes they earn from their labour on...

This report, the second in a series of three dealing with food supply and nutrition among labourers on large farms in Trans Nzoia District, Kenya, examines the living conditions, household resources, food consumption and nutritional situation in the labourers' households...

Motivated by an interest in shifts in the social construction of authority and the inversion of established religious and moral power, the author carried out an anthropological study in Blantyre in 1988-1989 of a group of young Malawian preachers who proclaim Christian...

During the early 1970s Blantyre, Malawi's main urban centre, witnessed the emergence of a new religious phenomenon. Young boys and girls, referring to themselves as 'aliliki' (preachers), began to attract crowds by conducting large revival meetings. Today,...

In een gerontocratie controleert men de jongeren door het in eigen hand houden van de controle van productie- en reproductiemiddelen, en het onderhouden van contacten met het bovennatuurlijke. Jongeren kunnen zich daarom moeilijk aan de invloed van de ouderen onttrekken. De...

This thesis gives an overview of the Maasai livestock economy as it has developed between 1890 and 1990. Particularly, it analyses the processes and policies of land use and landownership of the Maasai pastoral areas in Kajiado district, Kenya, from the arrival of the...

Etniciteit is bij uitstek geschikt om in veranderingsprocessen te bemiddelen tussen fundamenteel verschillend gestructureerde sociale verbanden, en met name tussen het plaatselijk niveau enerzijds, de staat en wijde economische structuren anderzijds. Om deze stelling te...