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Islam as a constitutive factor in so-called African traditional religion and culture: The evidence from geomantic divination, mankala board games, ecstatic religion, and musical instruments (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper for the conference 'Transformation Processes and Islam in Africa', African Studies Centre and Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, 15 October 1999
Keywords: Africa, African studies, Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Les Chefs Royaux Nkoya et l'Association Culturelle Kazanga dans la Zambie du Centre-ouest Aujourd'hui: Résiliation, Déclin ou Folklorisation de la Fonction du Chef Traditionnel? (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented (in absentia) at the Colloque sur Nouvelles Perspectives sur la Chefferie en Afrique, Paris, Centre de Recherches Africaines, 29 November 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Reconciliation: A Major African Social Technology of Shared and Recognised Humanity (Ubuntu) (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 'Seminar on Culture and Globalisation', Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, 21 April 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Janus Situation in Local-Level Development Organization in Africa: Some Reflections Inspired by the Situation in Kaoma District, Western Central Zambia (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Wageningen International Conference on 'Decision-Making in Local Management of Natural Resources', 22-24 September 1999.
Keywords: Africa, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Janus Situation in Local-Level Development Organization in Africa (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: P. Spliethof; R. de Hoogh; N. van Leeuwen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Decision-Making in Community Forestry, Proceedings of the seminar on 'Decision-Making in Natural Resources Management, with a Focus on Adaptive Management', 22-24 September 1999
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Theoretical and Experiential Dimensions in the Study of the Ancestral Cult among the Zambian Nkoya (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper for the Research Group on Spirituality, Dutch-Flemish Association for Intercultural Philosophy, Leiden, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 29 October 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Culturen bestaan niet: interculturaliteit die vanzelfsprekendheden openbreekt (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Wereld en zending
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'Culturen bestaan niet' : het onderzoek van interculturaliteit als een openbreken van vanzelfsprekendheden (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

In deze inaugurele rede schetst de auteur hoezeer het begrip 'cultuur' zich als sleutelbegrip in onze hedendaagse maatschappelijke ervaring en in de filosofie heeft genesteld. Juist daarom, betoogt hij, is het van groot belang om vanzelfsprekendheden ten aanzien van...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, philosophy, world
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Enige filosofische aspecten van culturele globalisering: Met bijzondere verwijzing naar Malls interculturele hermeneutiek (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: J. Baars; E. Starmans
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Het eigene en het ander : Filosofie en globalisering: Acta van de 21 Nederlands-Vlaamse Filosofiedag, 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'Cultures do not exist': Exploding self-evidences in the investigation of interculturality (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy
Open access: Full text
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Culturen bestaan niet: interculturaliteit die vanzelfsprekendheden openbreekt (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in western central Zambia today : resilience, decline, or folklorisation? (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape

The author first traces the successive approaches to African chieftaincy in the course of the 20th century, contrasting the dualistic and the transactionalist models. He then examines the thesis of the resilient chief by considering a case from western central Zambia. He...

Keywords: chieftaincy, NGO, Nkoya, political change, politics, Subsaharan Africa, Zambia
Open access: Full text
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Mary's room : a case study on becoming a consumer in Francistown, Botswana (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond

This chapter presents an extended case study of the personal experiences of a young Kalanga woman in Francistown, Botswana, as she moves from village girlhood to incipient urban consumerism. After describing the urban setting of Francistown and the expansion of the town'...

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, consumption, identity, rural-urban relations, urban women
Open access: Full text
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La chambre de Mary : ou comment devenir consommatrice à Francistown, Botswana (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: C. Zabus; D. de Lame
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Changements au féminin en Afrique noire : anthropologie et littérature

Cet article est fondé sur un travail de terrain ethnographique réalisé sur une durée de cinq années d'observation participante entrecoupée de pauses dans la ville de Francistown au Botswana à partir de 1988. Il s'agit d'une étude de cas longitudinale, où est...

Keywords: Botswana, consumption, rural-urban relations, urban women
Open access: Full text
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Tweesporenbeleid bij ontwikkeling Afrikaanse curricula: Afrika-Studiecentrum reageert op Peter Crossman (1999)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Transfer
Open access: Full text
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Participation et Gestion Locale de Ressources Naturelles (1999)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'La Partipation Introuvable'
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Insecurity and pastoral development in the Sahel (1999)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Development and change

The authors argue that conventional agroecological and organizational concepts used in pastoral development are strongly biased towards the formulation and enforcement of norms. This leads development experts to attempts to control pastoralists and their herds. The policies...

Keywords: 1991, agricultural policy, Fulani, Mali, pastoralists, policy, Sahel
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Introduction : Changing Frontiers (1999)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Mande studies
Keywords: Manding, social sciences, West Africa
Open access: Full text
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The pastoral poor : hazard, crisis and insecurity in Fulbe society in Central Mali (1999)
M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: V. Azarya; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Pastoralists under pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa
Keywords: animal husbandry, Fulani, Mali, social change, West Africa
Open access: Full text
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The Netherlands and Liberia : Dutch policies and interventions with respect to the Liberian civil war (1999)
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book

This study analyses Dutch foreign policy towards Liberia during the civil war between 1990 and 1997 with the aim of identifying policy options for the improvement of the Dutch contribution to international interventions in violent conflicts in Third World countries. An...

Keywords: civil wars, Country, foreign policy, Liberia, Netherlands, policy
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