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.
If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Dr. Klaas van Walraven (k.van.walraven@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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Christian fundamentalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Alcohol in Africa seminar, ASC, Leiden, 13 June 1997
Keywords: Africa, alcohol, Malawi
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Discourses of transubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Pentecostalism at Home and Abroad conference, Manchester, 11 April 1997
Keywords: diaspora, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper persented at the International Conference on Globalisation, Development and the Making of Consumers: What Are Collective Identities For?' The Hague, 13-16 March 1997
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 13th Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester, 19-22 April 1997
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Religion: the City and Beyond conference organised by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), Toulouse, 7-11 July 1997
Keywords: diaspora
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Femmes, pouvoir, sociétés (1997)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; T. Locoh
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Politique africaine

Au détour des années 90 les femmes, en Afrique, sont au-devant de la scène. Les tentatives démocratiques ont été l'occasion pour les femmes de prendre conscience de leur rôle en tant que citoyennes. Quant à leur accès aux moyens de production, leurs droits sont toujours...

Keywords: Africa, feminism, women
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Le commerce international informel en Afrique sub-saharienne: quelques problèmes méthodologiques et conceptuels (1997)
S. Ellis; J. MacGaffey
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Cahiers d'études africaines

L'économie informelle africaine a pris une telle ampleur qu'il est devenu impossible de la considérer comme une forme annexe de l'économie formelle ou comme un facteur d'importance strictement locale. En outre, le qualificatif «informel» n'est que l...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Criminal and political violence in South Africa (1997)
S. Ellis
Editors: B. de Gaay Fortman; M. Veldhuis
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Internal Conflicts, Security and Development
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Réalités et incertitudes intérieures en République Sud-Africaine (1997)
S. Ellis
Editors: J.P. Doumenge; J.-F. Lionnet
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Regards sur l'Afrique (1996-7)
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Nieuwe machtspatronen in Afrika : de betrekkelijkheid van politieke grenzen (1997)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator

Een politieke kaart van het huidige Afrika dekt vaak niet de politieke werkelijkheid. Krachtige regeringen oefenen in een informeel machtspatroon feitelijke invloed uit in gebieden in buurlanden. Informele economieën en politieke structuren zijn vaak belangrijker dan de...

Keywords: Africa, power, state
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Religion and politics in Africa (1997)
S. Ellis; G. ter Haar
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Afrika Zamani : revue annuelle d'histoire africaine

All religion is based on a belief in the existence of invisible forces which influence human destiny. So important is belief of this sort in contemporary thought, the authors argue, that many Africans appear to believe that the widely attested malaise of their public life may...

Keywords: Africa, African Independent Churches, Church and State, politics
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Competing practices of drinking and power: alcoholic hegemonism in southern Ethiopia (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Alcohol in Africa seminar, African Studies Centre, Leiden, 13 June 1997
Keywords: Africa, African studies, Ethiopia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Studying conflict and violence in Africa: some notes from an anthropological perspective (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the seminar Methodological Approaches to the Study of Conflict in Africa, African Studies Centre, Leiden, 24 September 1997
Keywords: Africa, African studies, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The production of "primitiveness" and identity: Surma - tourist interactions (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Globalisation, Development and the Making of Consumers conference, The Hague, 13-15 March 1997
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Violence and culture: anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on Surma society (Ethiopia) (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the World Congress on Violence and Human Co-Existence, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 12-17 August 1997
Keywords: Ethiopia, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Competing practices of drinking and power : alcoholic 'hegemonism'in southern Ethiopia (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Northeast African Studies

This paper focuses on problems and dilemmas of changing alcohol use among the Surma, a group of lowland agropastoralists in Maji, southern Ethiopia. The area under discussion is inhabited by indigenous agriculturalists, descendants of northern immigrants of mixed origin, and...

Keywords: alcoholic beverages, Ethiopia, Me'en, social conflicts, Suri
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Added to database: 23 December 2011

Het Surma stokduel : sport en ritueel geweld (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: De Baboab

De 'nationale sport' onder de Surma in zuidwestelijk Ethiopië is het stokduel tussen jonge, ongetrouwde mannen. De wedstrijden worden gehouden gedurende 4 à 6 weken in een rustige periode na de oogst. De deelnemende vechters zijn afkomstig uit de verschillende...

Keywords: Ethiopia, games, sports, Suri
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The shrinking cultural and political space of East African pastoral societies (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Nordic journal of African studies

The relation of pastoral societies with the 'outside world' has proved to be one of structural deterioration. This poses questions as to the political space remaining for these societies within the State arenas to which they nominally belong and the nature of their...

Keywords: Africa, Boran, Ethiopia, identity, Kenya, mobility, Nuer, pastoralists, social structure, southern ethiopia, Sudan, Suri
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Territory, space and state among the Suri: changes in an Ethiopian periphery, 1977-1997 (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: F. Fukui; E. Kurimoto; M. Shigeta
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Ethiopia in Broader Perspective
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The myth of Tishana "kingship": ideological reflections of socio-economic change (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthropos
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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