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Presentation at the congress '100 jaar antropologie in Nederland' (1998)
M.M. A. Kaag
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Amsterdam 12 December 1998
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The dance of the Dogon masks (1998)
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Traditions
Keywords: Dogon
Open access: Full text
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"We will go to the Jews": The re-introduction of circumcision, polygamy and ritual mutilation, and the redefinition of gender relations in central Namibian Herero society, 1920-1940 (1998)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the forty-first annual meeting of the African Studies association, Chicago, 29 October-1 November, 1998
Keywords: African studies, gender
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Football, fanfares and funerals: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (1998)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at 'Everyday Life in Colonial Africa', symposium held at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany, 6-7 October, 1998
Keywords: Africa, African studies
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Heaven on earth: Herero conceptualisation of land 1920-1940 (1998)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at 'Landnahme: Zur Historischen und Symbolischen Aneigung Lokaler Räume', symposium held at the University of Cologne, Germany, 16-18 October, 1998
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Herero annual parades: commemorating to create (1998)
J.B. Gewald
Editors: H. Behrend; T. Geider
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen

Herero society in Namibia continually draws from a bundle of loose characteristics - related to behaviour, clothing, ritual, food, or other things - which are combined in various ways to form stereotypes of what is considered to be 'Herero'. One of the occasions...

Keywords: 1991, commemorations, Herero, history, Namibia
Open access: Full text
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Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s (1998)
J.B. Gewald
Editors: W. Hartmann; P. Hayes; J. Silvester
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history
Keywords: Herero, history, images
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Does access to land have a positive impact on the food situation of the urban poor? : a case study in Nairobi (1998)
D.W.J. Foeken; A. Mboganie-Mwangi
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Eastern Africa social science research review : a publication of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa

In order to make ends meet, many poor urban households in sub-Saharan Africa fall back on farming activities, either within the city boundaries or in the rural areas from which they come. The central question raised in this article is whether access to farmland influences a...

Keywords: Africa, agricultural land, agriculture, food, Kenya, Rural, urban households
Open access: Full text
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Coping with urban poverty in Sub-Sahara Africa, with special emphasis on urban agriculture (1998)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the International Symposium on the Development Perspective of Africa towards the 21st Century, Beijing, 21-24 October 1998
Keywords: Africa, agriculture
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Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Werbner
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power

In various parts of Africa, Pentecostalism underscores the necessity for its members to make a complete break with the past. Although Pentecostalism speaks a language of modernity in which there is a past-inferior versus a present-superior dichotomy whereby the believer is...

Keywords: Africa, Baptist Church, Church, Country, Malawi, Pentecostalism, society
Open access: Full text
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Chieftaincy in West Africa: an extended proposal of an international colloquium (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, development cooperation
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Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Elias; R. Reis
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Getuigen ondanks zichzelf. Voor Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers bij zijn zeventigste verjaardag
Keywords: Africa, anthropology, festschrifts (form)
Open access: Full text
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Charismatic Pentecostalism in Africa: a comparison of cases from Malawi and Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the CEDLA/Zocalo conference on 'Churches, Popular Religion and Charismatic Pentecostalism: Latin America compared', panel 'It ain't necessarily so', CEDLA, Amsterdam, 6 April 1998
Keywords: Africa, Ghana, Pentecostalism
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Fine young cannibal (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: A critique of four papers presented at the panel 'Terror and Political Fantasies' of the conference 'Fantasy Spaces. The Power of Images in a Globalizing World', University of of Amsterdam, 26-28 August, 1998
Keywords: images
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Ghanaian Pentecostalism in The Hague and the national order of things (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the WOTRO-NEDA Conference 'Globalization and Cultural Diversity: research perspectives', The Hague, 8 May 1998
Keywords: Pentecostalism
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Modalities of fundamentalism in Malawi (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at study day on 'Islam as a Globalizing Project: African Perspectives', ASC, Leiden, 29 April 1998
Keywords: Islam
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Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: ambivalences of modernity in Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'The Quran and the Bible as Political Models in Africa and the Middle East', University of Copenhagen, 25-27 November 1998
Keywords: Africa, Ghana, Pentecostalism
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Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the XIV Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester University 19-22 April 1998
Keywords: diaspora
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Religion and strangerhood; the globalizing potential of Ghanaian Pentecostalism in the diaspora (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the General Assembly/Scientific Conference 'The Social Sciences in Africa', CODESRIA, Dakar, 14-18 December 1998
Keywords: Africa, diaspora, Pentecostalism, social sciences
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The alternative economy of pentecostal churches in Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Advanced African lectures Series, African Studies Centre, Copenhagen, 24 November, 1998
Keywords: African studies, Ghana
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