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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Les Chefs Royaux Nkoya et l'Association Culturelle Kazanga dans la Zambie du Centre-ouest Aujourd'hui: Résiliation, Déclin ou Folklorisation de la Fonction du Chef Traditionnel? (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented (in absentia) at the Colloque sur Nouvelles Perspectives sur la Chefferie en Afrique, Paris, Centre de Recherches Africaines, 29 November 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Reconciliation: A Major African Social Technology of Shared and Recognised Humanity (Ubuntu) (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 'Seminar on Culture and Globalisation', Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, 21 April 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Janus Situation in Local-Level Development Organization in Africa: Some Reflections Inspired by the Situation in Kaoma District, Western Central Zambia (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Wageningen International Conference on 'Decision-Making in Local Management of Natural Resources', 22-24 September 1999.
Keywords: Africa, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Janus Situation in Local-Level Development Organization in Africa (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: P. Spliethof; R. de Hoogh; N. van Leeuwen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Decision-Making in Community Forestry, Proceedings of the seminar on 'Decision-Making in Natural Resources Management, with a Focus on Adaptive Management', 22-24 September 1999
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Theoretical and Experiential Dimensions in the Study of the Ancestral Cult among the Zambian Nkoya (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper for the Research Group on Spirituality, Dutch-Flemish Association for Intercultural Philosophy, Leiden, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 29 October 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Culturen bestaan niet: interculturaliteit die vanzelfsprekendheden openbreekt (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Wereld en zending
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'Culturen bestaan niet' : het onderzoek van interculturaliteit als een openbreken van vanzelfsprekendheden (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

In deze inaugurele rede schetst de auteur hoezeer het begrip 'cultuur' zich als sleutelbegrip in onze hedendaagse maatschappelijke ervaring en in de filosofie heeft genesteld. Juist daarom, betoogt hij, is het van groot belang om vanzelfsprekendheden ten aanzien van...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, philosophy, world
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Enige filosofische aspecten van culturele globalisering: Met bijzondere verwijzing naar Malls interculturele hermeneutiek (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: J. Baars; E. Starmans
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Het eigene en het ander : Filosofie en globalisering: Acta van de 21 Nederlands-Vlaamse Filosofiedag, 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'Cultures do not exist': Exploding self-evidences in the investigation of interculturality (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Culturen bestaan niet: interculturaliteit die vanzelfsprekendheden openbreekt (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in western central Zambia today : resilience, decline, or folklorisation? (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape

The author first traces the successive approaches to African chieftaincy in the course of the 20th century, contrasting the dualistic and the transactionalist models. He then examines the thesis of the resilient chief by considering a case from western central Zambia. He...

Keywords: chieftaincy, NGO, Nkoya, political change, politics, Subsaharan Africa, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Mary's room : a case study on becoming a consumer in Francistown, Botswana (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond

This chapter presents an extended case study of the personal experiences of a young Kalanga woman in Francistown, Botswana, as she moves from village girlhood to incipient urban consumerism. After describing the urban setting of Francistown and the expansion of the town'...

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, consumption, identity, rural-urban relations, urban women
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

La chambre de Mary : ou comment devenir consommatrice à Francistown, Botswana (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: C. Zabus; D. de Lame
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Changements au féminin en Afrique noire : anthropologie et littérature

Cet article est fondé sur un travail de terrain ethnographique réalisé sur une durée de cinq années d'observation participante entrecoupée de pauses dans la ville de Francistown au Botswana à partir de 1988. Il s'agit d'une étude de cas longitudinale, où est...

Keywords: Botswana, consumption, rural-urban relations, urban women
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Tweesporenbeleid bij ontwikkeling Afrikaanse curricula: Afrika-Studiecentrum reageert op Peter Crossman (1999)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Transfer
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Participation et Gestion Locale de Ressources Naturelles (1999)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'La Partipation Introuvable'
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The 'anglophone problem' and chieftaincy in anglophone Cameroon (1999)
P.J.J. Konings
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape

The root of the 'anglophone problem' in Cameroon may be traced back to 1961, when the political elites of two territories with different colonial legacies - one French and the other British - agreed on the formation of a federal State. This federalism proved to be...

Keywords: Cameroon
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Anglophone struggle for federalism in Cameroon (1999)
P.J.J. Konings
Editors: L.R. Bastia; J. Ibrahim
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Federalism and decentralization in Africa: the multicultural challenge
Keywords: Africa, Cameroon
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Construction and deconstruction: anglophones or autochtones? (1999)
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the African Studies Association conference, panel: 'Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging: Democratization and Issues of Autochtony', Philadelphia, 10-15 November 1999
Keywords: African studies, democratization
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Women's issues in Decentralisation Policy: An illustration of practices in Senegal (1999)
M.M.A. Kaag
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 9th general conference of the EADI, Paris, 22-25 September 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The implementation of environmental policies in Africa: an example from Senegal (1999)
M.M.A. Kaag
Editors: H.van den Breemer; L.B. Venema
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Towards negiotated co-management of natural resources in Africa
Keywords: 1997, Africa, conference papers (form), environmental policy, natural resource management
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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