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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J.B. Gewald
Editors: H. Behrend; T. Geider
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen

Herero society in Namibia continually draws from a bundle of loose characteristics - related to behaviour, clothing, ritual, food, or other things - which are combined in various ways to form stereotypes of what is considered to be 'Herero'. One of the occasions...

Keywords: 1991, commemorations, Herero, history, Namibia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Editors: W. Hartmann; P. Hayes; J. Silvester
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history
Keywords: Herero, history, images
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; A. Mboganie-Mwangi
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Eastern Africa social science research review : a publication of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa

In order to make ends meet, many poor urban households in sub-Saharan Africa fall back on farming activities, either within the city boundaries or in the rural areas from which they come. The central question raised in this article is whether access to farmland influences a...

Keywords: Africa, agricultural land, agriculture, food, Kenya, Rural, urban households
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the International Symposium on the Development Perspective of Africa towards the 21st Century, Beijing, 21-24 October 1998
Keywords: Africa, agriculture
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Werbner
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power

In various parts of Africa, Pentecostalism underscores the necessity for its members to make a complete break with the past. Although Pentecostalism speaks a language of modernity in which there is a past-inferior versus a present-superior dichotomy whereby the believer is...

Keywords: Africa, Baptist Church, Church, Country, Malawi, Pentecostalism, society
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, development cooperation
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Elias; R. Reis
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Getuigen ondanks zichzelf. Voor Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers bij zijn zeventigste verjaardag
Keywords: Africa, anthropology, festschrifts (form)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the CEDLA/Zocalo conference on 'Churches, Popular Religion and Charismatic Pentecostalism: Latin America compared', panel 'It ain't necessarily so', CEDLA, Amsterdam, 6 April 1998
Keywords: Africa, Ghana, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: A critique of four papers presented at the panel 'Terror and Political Fantasies' of the conference 'Fantasy Spaces. The Power of Images in a Globalizing World', University of of Amsterdam, 26-28 August, 1998
Keywords: images
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the WOTRO-NEDA Conference 'Globalization and Cultural Diversity: research perspectives', The Hague, 8 May 1998
Keywords: Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at study day on 'Islam as a Globalizing Project: African Perspectives', ASC, Leiden, 29 April 1998
Keywords: Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'The Quran and the Bible as Political Models in Africa and the Middle East', University of Copenhagen, 25-27 November 1998
Keywords: Africa, Ghana, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the XIV Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester University 19-22 April 1998
Keywords: diaspora
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the General Assembly/Scientific Conference 'The Social Sciences in Africa', CODESRIA, Dakar, 14-18 December 1998
Keywords: Africa, diaspora, Pentecostalism, social sciences
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Advanced African lectures Series, African Studies Centre, Copenhagen, 24 November, 1998
Keywords: African studies, Ghana
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Takbaylit (1998)
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The encyclopaedia of Islam
Keywords: Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Cahiers de recherches des institutes néerlandais de langue et de littérature françaises
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Frame.Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Etnosistemi
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni
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Added to database: 23 December 2011

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