Publications

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

If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Mrs. Maaike Westra (m.a.westra@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

Browse our publications and those by our staff members using the simple search form below to look for a keyword in the title.

 

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Les Kapsiki (1981)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: C. Tardits
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Contribution de la recherche ethnologique à l'histoire des civilisations du Cameroun

Dans cette esquisse le groupement kapsiki du Nord Cameroun et le groupement higi du Nigéria ont été considérés comme une seule ethnie. Leur histoire ne peut être qu'une synthèse des histoires villageoises, en l'absence d'une tradition générale pour toute l...

Keywords: Cameroon, Kapsiki, migration, Northern Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Kenya
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Aim of this paper is not to present a full description of ancestor veneration among the Nkoya. It concerns the extent to which an analytical theory of Afrian religious change is capable of explaining contemporary plurality of religious forms in selected areas of Africa as the...

Keywords: Africa, ancestor worship, Nkoya, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Okot p'Bitek: Lied van Lawino en lied van Ocol
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Okot p'Bitek: Lied van Lawino en lied van Ocol
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Agence de Coopération culturelle et technique
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Newsletter on African Studies in the Netherlands
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the symposium on Plurality in Religion, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Intercongress, Amsterdam, 22-25 April, 1981, 22 pp, 1981
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Aim of this volume, which brings together seven studies of religious change in Zambia, is to describe the processes of religious change in this country during the last few centuries. These studies are: 1) Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa. 2) Possession...

Keywords: Africa, African religions, African studies, Country, history, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Religious change in Zambia: Exploratory studies

Aim of this volume, which brings together seven studies of religious change in Zambia, is to describe the processes of religious change in this country during the last few centuries. These studies are: 1) Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa. 2) Possession...

Keywords: Africa, African religions, Country, history, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African studies

The alternative proposed here for the tribal model as a unit of study is not another, better unit of study (e.g. a mode of production, an expanding social formation, or a well-defined spatio-temporal portion of reality), but a growing awareness of possible problems and...

Keywords: ethnicity, historiography, history, Nkoya, Rural, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: P. Kloos; H.J.M. Claessen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Current issues in anthropology, the Netherlands

Aim of this chapter is to present a picture of anthropological work on sub-saharan Africa as undertaken in the Netherlands during the 1970s. After the introduction follows, in section 2, a discussion of the discipline and its predicaments. In section 3 the author discusses...

Keywords: Africa, African studies, Bibliographies (form), Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: De Journalist
Keywords: Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; J. Koninx
Type of publication: Review
In: Antropologie en Marxisme
Added to database: 03 April 2012
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: The journal of African history
Keywords: history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
Type of publication: Book

Investigates the direct effects of modern transport on advance into the interior, structure and organization, and withdrawal from the interior in the 1950s and 1960s of these firms. A revised edition of this article in: Cahiers d'études africaines, 21 (1981), 84, p. 547-...

Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012
K. de Jonge
Type of publication: Book

A partir d'une "étude de cas" au niveau micro, cet article se propose de montrer la nature des relations qui existent entre, d'une part, les paysans (notammant ceux de Birkama, village balante de Casamance, Sud-Sénégal), d'autre part, le capitalisme...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012
O.P. Bitek; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; A. van Rijsewijk
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: poetry (form), Uganda
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book

A study based on fieldwork undertaken in 1975. Conclusion: Whilst an incipient working-class consiousness exists amongst the Ashanti Goldfield Corporation miners, the cumulative effect of the co-existence of various modes of production, the constant confrontation of miners...

Keywords: class consciousness, fieldwork, Ghana, miners
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings of the International Oral History Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 October 1980
Keywords: history
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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