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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Virtuality as a key concept in the study of globalisation : aspects of the symbolic transformation of contemporary Africa (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

The author concentrates on virtuality, which he has come to regard as one of the key concepts for characterizing and understanding the forms of globalization in Africa. Chapters 1 and 2 define virtuality and globalization and provisionally indicate their theoretical...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, globalization, Malawi, Rural, social change, witchcraft, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Verzoening : perspectieven vanuit de culturele antropologie van Afrika (1997)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: In de marge

In dit artikel geeft de auteur een antropologische reflectie op verzoening, gebaseerd op zijn onderzoekservaring in Afrika. Hij begint met de voorwaarden voor en kenmerken van verzoening en de betekenis van de tijdsdimensie daarin. Daarna beschrijft hij de problematiek van...

Keywords: Africa, arbitration, conflict resolution, customary law
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

La gestion des bas-fonds (1997)
M.M.A. Kaag
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Presentation held at the NIRP restitution seminar, Senegal June 1997
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Implementation of Environmental Policies in Africa: an example from Senegal (1997)
M.M.A. Kaag
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'The Implementation of Environmental Policy in Africa', Amsterdam, 17 -18 April 1997
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Trust, Mistrust and Co-operation in a Senegalese Rural Community (1997)
M.M.A. Kaag
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'Trust and Co-operation', Amsterdam, 7 November 1997
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Henk van Dijk en de antropologie; een persoonlijke herinnering (1997)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: P. Koningsbruggen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Alle Tijd om te Vertellen
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The paradoxical world of sport (1997)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: A. Dorgelo; W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The fascinating world of draughts : 50 years World Draughts Federation (FMJD)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920's (1997)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at Colloquium Africanum, University of Cologne, Germany, 9 January, 1997
Added to database: 23 December 2011

"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (1997)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at 'People, Cattle and Land: A symposium on the culture, history and economy of Otjiherero speaking people', Michaelsberg, Siegburg, Germany, 14-17 September, 1997
Keywords: Germany, Herero, history, Namibia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Risk and agro-pastoral decision-making and natural resource management in Fulbe Society, Central Mali (1997)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Nomadic peoples

Risk and uncertainty dominate life in the semiarid tropics where most of the world's pastoralists live. Scientific approaches to risk in semiarid zones have been dominated by agroecology and agroeconomics. Within these paradigms risk is treated as a stochastic occurrence...

Keywords: agropastoralism, fieldwork, Fulani, Mali, natural resource management
Open access: Full text
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Urban trajectories in rural livelihood strategies : household employment patterns in Kenya's Coast Province (1997)
D.W.J. Foeken
Editors: D.F. Bryceson; V. Vali Jamal
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Farewell to farms : de-agrarianisation and employment in Africa

This chapter deals with household employment patterns in Kenya's Coast Province, an economically backward area in the Kenyan economy. Current research reveals that economic diversification rather than specialization is crucial to the pursuit of household livelihood....

Keywords: Africa, education, gender, Kenya, Rural
Added to database: 23 December 2011

From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of religion in Africa

This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are engaged in intercontinental diasporic movement, starting from R.P. Werbner's notion that religion and strangerhood transform together. In particular, the author examines...

Keywords: Baptist Church, diaspora, emigrants, Ghana, identity, Netherlands, Pentecostalism
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Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Working papers on globalisation and the construction of communal identity no. 2 1997
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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
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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
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