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.

Unfortunately we no longer accept publications for our book series.

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L. Mann
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of modern African studies

The family firm, DAL Group, is Sudan's largest and most diversified company. Its growth has concentrated on consumer goods, rather than on state concessions or exports. It has developed its own training programmes, construction units, transportation networks and market...

Keywords: business organization, labour recruitment, private enterprises, Sudan
Added to database: 12 March 2015
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

Bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble? Een collectie van een 17e-eeuwse Grote Nederlander en een Amerikaanse toekomstvisie op bibliotheken hebben op het eerste gezicht weinig met elkaar te maken. Maar voor bibliotheken zijn speciale collecties net zo belangrijk...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

De overheid bezuinigt op bibliotheken. Openbare bibliotheken vangen dat op door filialen te sluiten en met uitleenautomaten en minder mensen hetzelfde te doen als vroeger. Bij wetenschappelijke bibliotheken verdwijnt alle franje en worden facultaire bibliotheken gesloten.

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

In de achtste aflevering van een serie combinatiebesprekingen (digitaal & speciaal) schenkt Jos Damen aandacht aan een onderzoek naar big data van bibliotheekcatalogi en een catalogus van het werk van het Nederlandse genie Christiaan Huygens.

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

Nederlandse bibliotheken zijn te bescheiden. Ze spelen een belangrijke rol in de Nederlandse maatschappij, maar scheppen daar nauwelijks over op, vindt Jos Damen. De onlangs verschenen boeken over de geschiedenis van de universiteitsbibliotheken in Groningen en Leiden maken...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014
M. Spierenburg; H. Wels
Editors: F. Hendricks; L. Ntsebeza; K. Helliker
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The promise of land: undoing a century of dispossession in South Africa
Keywords: agriculture, Netherlands
Added to database: 09 July 2014
H. Wels
Editors: B. Musschenga; A. van Harskamp
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: What makes us moral?: on the capacities and conditions for being moral

According to world famous primatologist Frans de Waal we live in 'the age of empathy'. De Waal is part of a long tradition of biologists who have argued for recognizing individual emotions, altruism and morality in human and non-human animals alike. This is an intellectual...

Added to database: 09 July 2014
E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Culture, health and sexuality
Keywords: Africa, counselling, sexuality
Added to database: 06 June 2014
Editors: A. Bochow; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

In many African societies today Christian churches, in particular Pentecostal churches, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body and health. This is motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but is also related to globally circulating...

Keywords: gender relations, marriage, Pentecostalism, sexuality, Sub-Sahara Afrika, women
Added to database: 06 June 2014
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Culture, health and sexuality

In African societies where HIV and AIDS are widespread, counselling is being used in an attempt to control people's sexual relationships and has become an important
industry. Counselling is centrally placed in many AIDS-related policies in Botswana and is sponsored by...

Keywords: Botswana, counselling, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 06 June 2014
Editors: E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

This special issue is dedicated to examining practices of counselling as one of the most important social forms in which the dialectics of revelation and concealment play out. The special issue breaks new ground since it is the first collection of social science papers...

Keywords: Africa, counselling, sexuality
Added to database: 06 June 2014
M. Bryant; G.J. Abbink
Editors: G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia)
Keywords: Ethiopia, Suri
Added to database: 28 April 2014
G.J. Abbink
Editors: G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia)
Keywords: Ethiopia, history, Suri
Added to database: 28 April 2014
G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ethiopia, oral traditions, Suri, Suri language
Added to database: 28 April 2014
H. Smits
Editors: T.C. Schadeberg; R.M. Blench
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Nuba mountain language studies
Keywords: indigenous languages, Sudan
Added to database: 28 April 2014
A. Amha
Editors: M.C. Simeone-Senelle; M. Vanhove
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic languages, Paris, 16-18 April 2008
Keywords: Ethiopia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 18 March 2014
M. Bøås; M.E. de Bruijn; L. Gayer; M. Debos
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Politique africaine
Keywords: Chad
Added to database: 07 March 2014
M.M. A. Kaag
Editors: K. Fleet
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The encyclopaedia of Islam
Added to database: 06 March 2014
J. Grunau
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Togo
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 26 February 2014
E. Guene
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 26 February 2014

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