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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Sponsoring nature: environmental philanthropy for conservation (2011)
Editors: M. Ramutsidela; M. Spierenburg; H. Wels
Type of publication: Book

Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the...

Added to database: 09 July 2014

Foreword two: Business anthropology is a growing field of study (2011)
H. Wels
Editors: R. Tian; D. Zhou; A.H. van Marrewijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Advanced readings in business anthropology
Keywords: anthropology, business
Added to database: 09 July 2014

Lumun noun classes and number (2011)
H. Smits
Editors: B. Kramer; H. Tröbs; R. Kastenholz
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus: linguistische Beiträge zum 19. Afrikanistentag, Mainz, 8. - 10. April 2010
Added to database: 06 March 2014

De destructieve aantrekkingskracht van de Blauwe Paradijsvogel (2011)
M. van den Bergh
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Geografie
Keywords: birds, Papua New Guine
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 13 January 2014

Fear and faith : uncertainty, misfortune and spiritual insecurity in Calabar, Nigeria (2011)
L.C.G.J. ligtvoet
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 05 December 2013

Cultural models of power in Africa (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: G.J. Abbink; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Land, law and politics in Africa: mediating conflict and reshaping the state

Africa has a wide array of polities that are characterized by extremely diverging leadership styles. How can the same continent house a Mugabe and a Bokassa, but also a Nyerere and a Mandela? Based on the Bourdieu notion of types of capital as thebasis for inequality in...

Added to database: 04 December 2013

Forever liminal: twins among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: Ph. M. Beek
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Twins in African and diaspora cultures: double trouble or twice blessed
Keywords: Cameroon, Kapsiki, Nigeria, twins
Added to database: 04 December 2013

The infallibility trap: the sacralisation of religious authority (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: International Journal of Mormon Studies
Added to database: 04 December 2013

Medicinal knowledge and healing practices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
Keywords: Cameroon, Kapsiki, medical anthropology, Nigeria
Added to database: 04 December 2013

Ritueel als arena: Dogon-maskers en hun strijd (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Jaarboek voor Liturgieonderzoek

Een antropologisch verhaal start vaak vanuit een dorp; hier is dat Tireli, een dorp van 3000 mensen, gelegen aan de voet van de Falaise van Bandiagara, een klif van 200 meter hoog en 150 kilometer lang. Deze klif is gezichtsbepalend voor dit gebied en vormt de majestueuze...

Keywords: Dogon, Mali
Added to database: 04 December 2013

Divination: du bon sens dans le chaos (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek; P.M. Peek
Editors: P. Matharan
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Arts d'Afrique: voir l'invisible
Added to database: 04 December 2013

The gender of beer: beer symbolism among the Kapsiki/Higi and the Dogon (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: W. Schiefenhövel; H. Macbeth
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Liquid bread: beer and brewing in cross-cultural perspective
Keywords: beer, Cameroon, Dogon, Nigeria
Added to database: 04 December 2013

Crisis and neoliberal reforms in Africa : civil society and agro-industry in anglophone Cameroon's plantation economy (2011)
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book

This book discusses the consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell the Cameroonian agro-industrial sector in the 1980s, using as a case study the plantation economy of the anglophone region of Cameroon. Two agro-industrial enterprises have dominated the...

Keywords: agroindustry, Cameroon, civil society, privatization
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 18 November 2013

Inzicht in Afrika = Understanding Africa (2011)
Type of publication: Book

Our intention with this brochure is to illustrate the kind of research we do at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, as well as how we work and what inspires us.

Keywords: African studies, Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 16 July 2013

'Message in a mobile' : mixed-messages, tales of missing and mobile communities at the University of Khartoum (2011)
S. Lamoureaux
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: codeswitching, identity, language usage, mobile telephone, sociolinguistics, students, Sudan, theses (form)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 April 2013

'Land to the foreigners': economic, legal, and socio-cultural aspects of new land acquisition schemes in Ethiopia (2011)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of contemporary African studies

The Ethiopian government is an active partner in the general trend in Africa to hand out large tracts of land to foreign companies and governments for commercial farming, which is defined as investment for national development. By 2009, there were 406 foreign large-scale land...

Keywords: Ethiopia, foreign investments, government policy, land acquisition
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 28 March 2013

Dutch letters from Ghana: literature and society in the 17th and 18th centuries, with special reference to Willem van Focquenbroch (1640-1670) and Jacobus Capitein (1717-1747) (2011)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 2011 Dutch Studies Conference on Colonial and Post-Colonial Connections in Dutch Literature, 15-17 Sept. 2011, UC Berkeley
Added to database: 27 February 2013

Land conflicts in Senegal revisited: continuities and emergent dynamics (2011)
M.M. A. Kaag; Y. Gaye; M. Kruis
Editors: G.J. Abbink; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Land, law and politics in Africa : mediating conflict and reshaping the state
Added to database: 06 February 2013

Contextualizing Zimbabwe's land reform: long term observations from the first generation (2011)
M. Dekker; B. Kinsey
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: The journal of peasant studies
Added to database: 17 January 2013

Improving school feeding through school farming: the case of Nakuru town, Kenya (2011)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 19 July 2012

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