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A.J. Dietz; F. Obeng; K.van der Geest
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ghana
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A.J. Dietz; F. Obeng; K.van der Geest
Type of publication: Book
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; F. Obeng; K.van der Geest
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ghana
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; F. Obeng; K.van der Geest
Type of publication: Book
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A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ghana
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A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book
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A. de Bruijne; A.J. Dietz; W. van Sprengen
Editors: H. Knippenberg; M. van Schendelen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Alles heeft zijn plaats : 125 jaar Geografie en Planologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam,1877-2002
Keywords: Geografie
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M. Kurian; A.J. Dietz; K.S. Murali
Type of publication: Book
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M. Snel; M. Baumeister; A.J. Dietz; K. Kusters; H. Pronk; W. Rijssenbeek; J. de Winter
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Rural
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A.J. Dietz; W. Yabann
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Educational assistance, Environmental studies, Kenya, MOI-University,Kenya
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A.J. Dietz; W. Yabann
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Educational assistance, Environmental studies, Kenya, MOI-University,Kenya
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Editors: M. Mohogu
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, directories (form), Netherlands, organizations
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M.C.A. van Doorn
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: SCOLMA's 40th anniversary conference

Almost ten years ago to the day I gave a talk at SCOLMA's 1992 annual general meeting on African documentation in the Netherlands, and possibilities for European cooperation. My talk focused on the Afrika-Studiecentrum (ASC) in Leiden and the work of the Library and...

Keywords: Africa, African studies collections, Netherlands
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T. van der Werf-Davelaar; R.J. Driessen
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: environment
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S. Ellis; D. Killingray
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society
Keywords: Africa
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S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: The journal of African history

This essay argues that historians need to engage with the history of contemporary Africa both as a way of throwing new light on Africa's more remote past and as a way of understanding the present. It considers how a new generation of works on Africa's contemporary...

Keywords: Africa, historiography, history
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S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Past and present

This article concerns an extended campaign of witch-hunting in Madagascar. For the purpose of the article, the suppression of alleged witches - that is, people accused of being the human agents of a mystical force that the persecutors suppose to exist - is analysed as a form...

Keywords: Madagascar, Merina polity, witch-hunting, witchcraft
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G.J. Abbink
Editors: J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Remapping Ethiopia : socialism & after

This chapter discusses the dynamics of interaction between the Ethiopan political centre and the Surma or Suri people, a small group of independent agro-pastoralists located in the Maji border area of South-West Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1998. In this period the Suri provide an...

Keywords: Ethiopia, Ethnic groups, ethnic identity, history, Suri
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G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere : Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik

This article summarizes some findings of research on plant names and plant use of the Suri people (more widely known by outsiders as "Surma"), a relatively isolated group of agro-pastoralists in the border area of Southwest Ethiopia and Sudan. The research was...

Keywords: Ethiopia, folk medicine, medicinal plants, southern ethiopia, Sudan, Suri
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G.J. Abbink
Editors: D.F. Bryceson
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics

Alcohol can be used as a theme to belittle, patronize and differentiate people. This happens especially when different kinds of beverages are accorded a different status across social and ethnic groups in society. The case study presented in this chapter highlights cultural...

Keywords: Africa, alcoholic beverages, drinking customs, Ethiopia, Ethnic groups, ethnicity, fieldwork, history, Me'en, politics, social inequality, southern ethiopia, Suri
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