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.
If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Dr. Klaas van Walraven (k.van.walraven@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture in the seminar 'Geneeskunde en magie', Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 13 Maart 1996
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture in the Ph.D. conference 'Stromingen en scholen in de moderne godsdienstwetenschap', Werkgemeenschap Theologie en Godsdienstwetenschap, Den Haag, 28 Maart 1996
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper to be read at the one-day conference on: Black Athena: Africa's contribution to global systems of knowledge', Leiden, 28 June, 1996
Keywords: Africa, history
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper to be read at the monthly seminar of the WOTRO research programme 'Globalisation and the construction of communal identities', Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Municipal University Amsterdam, Oude Zijds Achterburgwal 185, 6 May, 1996
Keywords: Africa, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Co-referent's paper read at the Conference at the Occasion of the Retirement of Ineke van Wetering, Department of Cultural Anthropology/Sociology of Development, Free University, Amsterdam, 12 April 1996
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture, national graduate course on African anthropology, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Instituut voor Culturele Antropologie, 10 April 1996
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the international conference 'Black Athena: Africa's contribution to global systems of knowledge', Leiden, ASC, 28 June 1996
Keywords: Africa, Netherlands
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at 'The SSIPS [ Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science ] / SAGP [ Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy ] 1996, 15th Annual Conference: ''Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Social Thought:
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Promovendi-seminar, Departement Sociale en Culturele Antropologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1996
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Openbaar seminar, Departement Sociale en Culturele Antropologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1996
Keywords: Africa, history
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of religion in Africa

This paper examines a system of divination which is widespread in the Francistown area of Botswana and which features conspicuously in the area's various noncosmopolitan medical systems. The system involves the manipulation of four small rectangular or triangular tablets...

Keywords: Africa, Arabs, Botswana, divination, Shona
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy

Martin Bernal's 'Black Athena' has evoked three kinds of reaction: scholarly evaluation of the historical evidence for Bernal's claims, both of Ancient Europe's indebtedness to West Asia and Northeast Africa, and of the construction in recent...

Keywords: Africa, Antiquity, cultural history, Greece, history, identity, politics
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Constitutionalism in Africa: a quest for autochthonous principles
Keywords: Africa, land law, Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Mali, natural resource management, privatization
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.M.A. Kaag
Editors: D.L. Meijers
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Ware fictie, Een experiment in antropologie en literatuur
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: D. Barreteau; C. Baroin; Ch. Graffenried
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Mort et Rites Funéraires dans le Bassin du Lac Tchad
Keywords: 1990, Cameroon, conference papers (form), death rites, funerals, Kapsiki, Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: A. Droogers
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Boodschap uit het Mysterie. Reacties op de visie van J. van Baal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at 'Indigene afrikanische Ethnographien', symposium, University of Cologne, Germany, 14-16 June, 1996
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book

This book discusses the manner in which the Herero transformed and moulded their society between 1890, when Maharero Tjamuaha, the chieftain of Okahandja, died, and 1923, when his son, Samuel Maharero, died. Between 1904 and 1908, the Herero were devastated in a genocidal...

Keywords: Herero, history, Namibia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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