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.

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Grenzen en wereldbeschouwingen: Waarom wereldburgerschap ook heden een moeilijke opgave is (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Wereldburger tussen culturen in conflict: Symposium gehouden op vrijdag 11 april 2003 te Utrecht
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Introduction (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Intercultural encounters : African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality

This volume brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Published between 1969 and 2002, the essays operate at the borderline between anthropology and intercultural philosophy. Ethnographic data are derived from field research carried out in...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, Botswana, collected works (form), cultural philosophy, fieldwork, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'Cultures do not exist': Exploding self-evidences in the investigation of interculturality (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Intercultural encounters : African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality

This volume brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Published between 1969 and 2002, the essays operate at the borderline between anthropology and intercultural philosophy. Ethnographic data are derived from field research carried out in...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, Botswana, collected works (form), cultural philosophy, fieldwork, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Espiritualidad africana: Un enfoque desde la filosofía intercultural (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Polylog: Internet Journal for Intercultural Philosophizing
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The dynamics of power and the rule of law : essays on Africa and beyond, in honour of Emile Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal (2003)
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R. Pelgrim
Type of publication: Book

This collection of essays is a Festschrift honouring Emile Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal on the occasion of his retirement from academic life. In the study of the role of African traditional leaders, the work of van Rouveroy has made a major impact from the 1980s...

Keywords: Africa, African studies, Botswana, Cameroon, festschrifts (form), Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, traditional rulers, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Intercultural encounters : African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

This volume brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Published between 1969 and 2002, the essays operate at the borderline between anthropology and intercultural philosophy. Ethnographic data are derived from field research carried out in...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, Botswana, collected works (form), cultural philosophy, fieldwork, Tunisia, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Manchester as a birth place of agency (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the International Workshop 'Agency: An new, an old issue', convenors Van Binsbergen, W.M.J., RIjk van Dijk & Wouter van Beek, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, chair of intercultural philosophy, and African Studies Centre, theme group on Agency
Keywords: Africa, African studies
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Mi-figues, Mi-raisins: L'oscillation des Africaines éduquées entre les desseins féminins traditionnels et cosmopolites (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Joint seminar by Julie Duran-Ndaya Tshiteku (African Studies Centre, Leiden/Erasmus University Rotterdam), Cécile Dolisane-Ebossé Nyambé (Université de Toulouse), and Van Binsbergen, W.M.J. (African Studies Centre, Leiden/Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Keywords: African studies
Added to database: 23 December 2011

African Spirits op het spreekuur: winti, voodoo & witchcraft (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Bijdrage aan gelijknamig symposium, Calypso, Mauritsweg 5, Rotterdam, organised by Studium Generale, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR), Presentator: dr. Otmar Buyne (psychiatrist); 9 October 2003
Keywords: witchcraft
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Improvising away from fixed verbal formulae in the four-tablet oracle of sangomas in contemporary Botswana (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the session 'Het discours van de expert, orale traditie tussen formule en uitvoering' ('the expert's discourse: oral tradition between formula and performance'), Convenor: Jan Jansen, Netherlands Association of African Studies, 2003 Con
Keywords: Africa, African studies, Botswana, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden in de dialoog over waarden (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Key note op de conferentie 'Normen van waarde in onderwijs en opvoeding: Interreligieuze conferentie van het Christelijk College Henegouwen, het Melanchthon College en het Rotterdamse Studentenpastoraat (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) over waarden en nor
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The leopard's unchanging spots: Long-range comparitive research as a possible clue to enduring patterns of African agency (simplified version) (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: PowerPoint-based lunch seminar, theme group on Agency in Africa, African Studies Centre, Leiden, 2 December 2003
Keywords: Africa, African studies
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The translation of Southern African sangoma divination towards a global format, and the validity of the knowledge it produces (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the symposium 'World views, Science and Us', Brussels, Centre Leo Apostel, Free University Brussels, Belgium, 10 June 2003
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Rupture and fusion in the approach to myth (Situating myth analysis between philosophy, poetics, and long-range historical reconstruction, with an application to the ancient and world-wide mythical complex of leopard-skin symbolism) (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper to be read at the International Conference 'Myth: Theory and the Disciplines', 12 December 2003, University of Leiden: Research School CNWS (School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies), IIAS (The International Institute for Asian Studies); and
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Introduction: The dynamics of power and the rule of law in Africa and beyond: Theoretical perspectives on chiefs, the state, agency, customary law, and violence (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R. Pelgrim
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The dynamics of power and the rule of law : essays on Africa and beyond, in honour of Emile Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the extent to which violence can be said to underlie any form of Stae formation in precolonial Africa. This is done by examining the role of violence in State formation in west central Zambia from the 17th century onwards. The chapter...

Keywords: Africa, festschrifts (form), traditional rulers, violence, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'Then give him to the crocodiles' : violence, State formation, and cultural discontinuity in west central Zambia, 1600-2000 (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The dynamics of power and the rule of law : essays on Africa and beyond, in honour of Emile Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the extent to which violence can be said to underlie any form of Stae formation in precolonial Africa. This is done by examining the role of violence in State formation in west central Zambia from the 17th century onwards. The chapter...

Keywords: Africa, history, Lozi polity, state, traditional polities, violence, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Les chefs royaux nkoya et l'association culturelle Kazanga en Zambie : résistance, déclin ou folklorisation de la fonction du chef traditionnel? (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: C.H. Perrot; F.X. Fauvelle-Aymar
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Le retour des rois : les autorités traditionnelles et l'État en Afrique contemporaine

Après avoir passé en revue les diverses approches qui proposent des interprétations de la situation des chefs traditionnels en Afrique, cet article examine le cas des chefs dans la Zambie du centre-ouest. Il en fait l'historique à partir des années 1850, décrit la base...

Keywords: Africa, traditional rulers
Open access: Full text
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Sangoma en filosoof: eenheid in de praktijk, dilemma in de theorie (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: I.N. Bulhof; M. Poorthuis; V. Bhagwandin
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Mijn plaats is geen plaats: ontmoetingen tussen wereldbeschouwingen
Open access: Full text
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Sangoma en filosoof: eenheid in de praktijk, dilemma in de theorie (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Humanisme en Spiritualiteit, special edition of Antenne
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

African Spirituality (2003)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Polylog: Internet Journal for Intercultural Philosophizing
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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