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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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...

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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The myth of Tishana "kingship": ideological reflections of socio-economic change (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthropos
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Violence, ritual, and reproduction : Surma ceremonial dueling as a construction of sociality and sexuality (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: K. Fukui; E. Kurimoto; M. Shigeta
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Ethiopia in Broader Perspective
Keywords: Ethiopia, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Staatsomvorming in Afrika (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator

In deze bijdrage wordt in enkele algemene lijnen geponeerd dat de noodzaak tot staatsomvorming in Afrika voor het komende decennium prioriteit nummer één is. De rol van buitenlandse mogendheden en organisaties kan daarbij belangrijk zijn, maar moet niet worden overschat....

Keywords: Africa, political change, state
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Ethnicity and constitutionalism in contemporary Ethiopia (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of African law

According to the policy of the government of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), ethnic identity is the ideological basis of Ethiopia's political organization and administration and as such has been enshrined in the Federal Constitution of...

Keywords: 1994, constitutions, Ethiopia, ethnicity, identity, policy, politics
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De ingebeelde EU - vorm als inhoud van de Europese Unie (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Facta
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Visuele etnografie - theorie, methoden en mogelijkheden (1997)
G.J. Abbink; D. Nijland
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Facta
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Authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia) (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica

This article examines recent developments of local authority and 'leadership' among the Surma of southern Ethiopia, where the author carried out field research over the years 1990-1995. The intention is to analyse the nature of 'authority' in a non-State...

Keywords: chieftaincy, Ethiopia, southern ethiopia, Suri
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