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Revised version of a book first published in 1982 in Dutch entitled "Oude produktiewijzen en binnendringend kapitalisme" by the Free University, Amsterdam, in association with the African Studies Centre, Leiden. The modern history of Africa can be seen in Marxist...

Contents: 1. Introduction (is there a case for a Marxist approach in anthropological fieldwork - the structure of our argument). 2. The level of production as a problem in anthropological fieldwork (data on production - the concept of 'mode of production' -...

The author argues that Zambian rural anthropology is on the decline, and that this decline is related to the reliance, among anthropologists, on the tribe and ethnic group as the basic unit of study in the past; that the one way to escape from the tribal model on the...

The myth, the author focus upon, is that of Sidi Mhammad, a local saint venerated in N.W. Tunisia. After presenting the myth and briefly indicating the relatively ahistorical elements, the author builds up a framework which opens out the historical content for analysis. This...

L'ouvrage traite de la réception du droit constitutionnel français par le Sénégal. "Réception" s'entend comme le processus de transfert d'éléments de droit entre des systèmes de droit nationaux séparés entre eux dans l'espace ou dans le temps....

Description of the rising of the menalamba, the Red Shawls, against colonial rule after the conquest of Madagascar by the French in 1895. The menalamba were those who resisted France in the name of the kingdom of Madagascar or the kingdom of Imerina, a central kingdom on the...

Ondanks een hongersnood van zeer dramatische omvang, interne politieke onrust, aanhoudende burgeroorlog en economische problemen lijkt het door militairen geleide bewind in Ethiopië stevig in het zadel te blijven zitten en de 'revolutie van bovenaf' voortgang te...

The Kano Plain in Kisumu District today provides examples of both small-scale individual and large-scale organized rice irrigation activities. The area has a rather uniform ecology and is largely inhabited by a single ethnic group, the Luo. This report provides background...