Publications

The African Studies Centre Leiden currently publishes eight different series. Books published in the ASCL Collection Series and Occasional Publications Series can be ordered from the Webshop or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long they are in stock. Book series published by Brill can be ordered directly from the publisher, or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long as they are in stock.

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Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: H. Moore; T. Sanders
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa

From the mid-1970s, the younger generation in Malawi has largely supported the spread of a new kind of charismatic Pentecostalism. Small groups of itinerant preachers began moving around Malawi's urban areas. Their Christian fundamentalist message always touched on the...

Keywords: Africa, Baptist Church, Malawi, Pentecostalism, witchcraft
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Contesting silence : the ban on drumming and the musical politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ghana studies

During the Fourth Republic in Ghana there has been an unprecedented growth in Pentecostalism. The chief message of Pentecostalism is the contestation of tradition. It encourages members to abandon the past and traditions and to adopt a completely new way of life, unemcumbered...

Keywords: Baptist Church, diaspora, drumming, fieldwork, Ghana, Pentecostalism, traditional festivals, violence
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

African pentecostalism in the Netherlands (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: S.D. Glazier
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Encyclopedia of African & African-American religion
Keywords: Netherlands, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel (2001)
R.A. van Dijk; J. Nijboer; J. Vocks
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Tijdschrift voor criminologie
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

De smokkel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse sex-industrie en de betekenis van Afrikaanse religie (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the workshop 'Handel in AMA's', organized by C.R.D. and Politie & Analysecentrum Mensenhandel (I.A.M.), Zoetermeer, 19 January, 2001
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands: religion mediating a tense relationship (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference on 'Dutch-Ghanaian Relations: Past and Present', The Hague, 7 November, 2001
Keywords: Netherlands
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 'Conference on Pentecoastalism and Globalisation', Department of Religious Studies, University of Bayreuth, Sonderforschungsbereich 'Lokales Handeln in Afrika im Kontext Globaler Einflusse', Bayreuth 23-25 March, 2001
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Interrogating individuality in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at Ghana Studies Group, Leiden, 18 May, 2001
Keywords: diaspora, Ghana
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Negotiating modernity : Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Department of Sociology, University of Botswana Seminar Series, no. 21, Friday 23 February, 2001
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The disgust of absence: money and moral dilemmas in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches at home and abroad (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented in absentio at the panel on 'Transgression and Transcedence: anthropologies of disgust', for the AAA annual meeting, Washington DC, December 2, 2001
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The soul is the stranger. Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the contestation of 'flow' and 'individuality' in the diaspora (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Institut fur Etnologie-seminar series, University of Berlin, 18 June, 2001
Keywords: diaspora, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Amrouche, Marguerite-Taos (2001)
D. Merolla
Editors: S. Chaker
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Hommes et Femmes de Kabylie = Dictionnaire Biographique de la Kabylie (DBK)
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ouary, Malek (2001)
D. Merolla
Editors: S. Chaker
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Hommes et Femmes de Kabylie = Dictionnaire Biographique de la Kabylie (DBK)
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Opstand in Kabylië (2001)
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: soera
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Questioning Gender, Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Maghreb (2001)
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Race, Gender & Class
Keywords: ethnicity, gender
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Proprietà e parola femminile: i racconti orali e il cambiamento storico-sociale nel Maghreb berberfono (2001)
D. Merolla
Editors: A. Arru; L. Di Michele; M. Stella
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proprietarie
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Amrouche, Fadhma (2001)
D. Merolla
Editors: S. Chaker
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Hommes et Femmes de Kabylie = Dictionnaire Biographique de la Kabylie (DBK)
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The bargain sector : economic restructuring and the non-farm sector in the Nigerian savanna (2001)
K. Meagher
Type of publication: Book

The present study challenges some of the presuppositions and generalizations evident in current African non-farm literature relating to the association of non-farm participation with poverty, and the impact of structural adjustment, education, gender, and rural credit...

Keywords: Agricultural development, employment, Nigeria, rural areas, rural society, savannas
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Fulbe women's livelihood in the Borgu region of Benin (2001)
T. Djedjebi; L.J. de Haan
Editors: J.A. Andersson
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Kinship structures and enterprising actors : anthropological essays on development : liber amicorum Jan H.B. den Ouden
Keywords: agropastoralism, Benin, Fulani, livelihoods, women farmers
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Kenyan media in the 1997 general elections: a look at the watchdogs (2001)
J. Kadhi; M.M.E.M. Rutten
Editors: M.M.E.M. Rutten; A. Mazrui; F. Grignon
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Out for the count : the 1997 general elections and prospects for democracy in Kenya: (2001)

This chapter presents an overview of the media in Kenya as it stands today, focussing on the role of the media in the process of democratization. It first sketches the Kenyan media landscape as it developed since 1902, when the first newspaper was established in the then...

Keywords: 1997, Africa, democracy, democratization, elections, Kenya, mass communication
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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