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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J.C. Hoorweg
Editors: B.B. Wolman
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: International Encyclopaedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeyer
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C. Hoorweg; E. Githinji; R. Niemeijer
Type of publication: Book

English-Kikuyu and Kikuyu-English list of names of food and drinks commonly used among the Kikuyu in rural areas of Kenya

Keywords: food, Kenya, Kikuyu, plant names, Rural
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: P. Newman
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Paper in Chadic Linguistics
Keywords: Kapsiki
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink
Editors: H. Derks
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Milieu en Maatschappij
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Reacts upon Robert H. Bates' Rural responses to industrialization : a study of village Zambia' (London, 1976), which is an attempt to account for the transformation of Zambian society. Argues that most of Bates' answers are wrong

Keywords: Rural, social change, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the international seminar on "Migration and rural development in tropical Africa", org. by the Afrika-Studie centrum, Leiden, 21-25 November 1977

Reacts upon Robert H. Bates' Rural responses to industrialization : a study of village Zambia' (London, 1976), which is an attempt to account for the transformation of Zambian society. Argues that most of Bates' answers are wrong

Keywords: Rural, social change, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: R. Werbner
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Regional cults

A generic relation holds between two types of cult of affliction in formerly Barotseland. Cults of one type, the non-regional, form a substratum out of which cults of the other type, the regional, may spring forth under certain conditions, and into which they submerge again...

Keywords: African religions, cults, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Cultures et developpement

Review of Robert H. Bates, Rural Responses to Industrialization: A Study of Village Zambia, New Haven & London, 1976. Even though this book is important because it is a major step towards asking the right questions concerning the transformation of Central-African society...

Keywords: industrial development, Rural, rural areas, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: S. Roberts
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Law and the family in Africa

States that formal Local Courts did exist all right, but they were peripheral rather than central to the judicial process, and to the conflict-regulatory process in general, and such conflictws as most deeply concerned and aroused local communities, were hardly subject to...

Keywords: Africa, customary law, Nkoya, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L. Kapteijns
Type of publication: Book

In the first part of this essay the development of the study of African history is sketched, and the historical studies written by professional African historians from 1955 to 1972-3 are analysed. Special attention is paid to the manisfestoes of the 1960s, programmatical...

Keywords: bibliography, historiography, Nigeria, Subsaharan Africa, theses (form)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
F.G. Snyder; M.A. Savané
Type of publication: Book

This preliminary survey provides, in a reference format, a compendium of legislation potentially affecting the growth, distribution and composition of thepopulation in Senegal. It starts with an introduction to the characteristics ofthe population and then centres itself on...

Keywords: law, medical sciences, population, Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.M. Newman
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: 1976, Cameroon, Chad, Chadic languages, conference papers (form), Niger, Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
I. McDowell; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ecology of food and nutrition
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book

Doel van de studie is: 1. enerzijds de invloed na te gaan van de ontwikkelingsstrategie van de overheid op de vakbeweging (met name politiek bewustzijn en politieke aktie), en anderzijds de ontwikkeling van de vakbeweging en haar terugwerking op de overheid; 2. een exposé te...

Keywords: Ghana
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ghana
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Review
In: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Review
In: De Economist
Keywords: Country, developing countries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Type of publication: Book

Deze verhandeling beoogt een vergelijking tussen twee soorten rechtspraak in Noord-Togo, het westers georiënteerd recht en een verscheidenheid van plaatselijk verschillend volksrecht. De rechtspraak vormt een duidelijk spanningsveld tussen een van "boven af" of...

Keywords: conflict of laws, customary law, dissertations (form), family law, marriage law, Togo
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ufahamu
Keywords: Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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