Publications

This is a book about ethnicity among the Nkoya people in central western Zambia, and about the historical stuff out of which that ethnicity is made. It studies in detail the ways in which ethnicity both creates, and feeds upon, ethnohistory. At the same time it assesses the...

Dans cette étude l'auteur analyse les problèmes liés à l'application du droit foncier dans la ville de Ziguinchor, capitale de la région méridionale du Sénégal. Le titre de cet ouvrage évoque les pratiques foncières de tous les acteurs: l'État (composé de...

Deze studie beschrijft een politiek-historisch proces en vormt een bijdrage aan de systematische studie van internationale territoriale conflicten vanuit het gezichtspunt van de politieke geografie. Tevens worden aspecten van het Europese imperialisme van de late 19e eeuw...

This report is the first in a series dealing with food supply and nutrition among labourers on large farms in Trans Nzoia District, Kenya. It examines two important aspects of the labourers' food and nutritional situation, i.e. the incomes they earn from their labour on...

This report, the second in a series of three dealing with food supply and nutrition among labourers on large farms in Trans Nzoia District, Kenya, examines the living conditions, household resources, food consumption and nutritional situation in the labourers' households...

Motivated by an interest in shifts in the social construction of authority and the inversion of established religious and moral power, the author carried out an anthropological study in Blantyre in 1988-1989 of a group of young Malawian preachers who proclaim Christian...

During the early 1970s Blantyre, Malawi's main urban centre, witnessed the emergence of a new religious phenomenon. Young boys and girls, referring to themselves as 'aliliki' (preachers), began to attract crowds by conducting large revival meetings. Today,...

In een gerontocratie controleert men de jongeren door het in eigen hand houden van de controle van productie- en reproductiemiddelen, en het onderhouden van contacten met het bovennatuurlijke. Jongeren kunnen zich daarom moeilijk aan de invloed van de ouderen onttrekken. De...

This book is about the South African Communist Party (SACP) and how it took over the leadership of the ANC between 1960 and 1990, during the time when both organizations were banned in South Africa and forced to establish their headquarters in exile. It also concerns '...

Sum.: For 40 years (1950-1990) the South African Communist Party (SACP) was banned by a government that represented international communism as the source of all political evil. The conditions of exile go some way towards explaining the SACP's continuing attachment to...

Certains éléments des forces de sécurité sud-africaines ont mis en exploitation les ressources naturelles au profit de leurs stratégies de déstabilisation politique et d'enrichissement. Ils ont ainsi réussi à établir des réseaux très développés de contrebande de produits...

This paper describes the burial ceremony of the Surma-speaking Me'en of southwest Ethiopia as a collective ritual pervaded by cattle symbolism. The author discerns four basic elements in the ritual: cattle are the prime ritual medium because they are the epitome of Me...

This catalogue describes the principal items of the material culture of the Me'en or 'Tishana', an ethnic group or nationality living in Ethiopia, in the Southwestern Käfa Region. The first part discusses some general characteristics of Me'en habitat and...