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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Popular culture, the dynamics of African cultural and ethnic identity in a context of globalization (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Particularly as elites mediating between local communities and the outside world, actors in contemporary southern African societies have talked about culture. Paradoxically, the term 'culture' rarely appeared in scholarly discourse on these same societies. Until...

Keywords: Africa, African culture, ethnicity, identity, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Popular culture: The dynamics of African cultural and ethnic identity in a context of globalization (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: J. van der Klei
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Popular culture: Africa, Asia and Europe, Proceedings of Summer School 1994
Keywords: Africa, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Divination and board-games: Exploring the links between geomantic divination and mancala board-games in Africa and Asia (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the international colloquium 1995: Board-games in Academia', Leiden, 9-13 April 1995
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Anthropological appropriation (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the Table ronde sur 'Colonialisme et anthropologie', Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Parijs, Université Paris VI, 19-22 februari 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The anthropology of the post-colonial subject in Botswana (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the seminar 'The anthropology of the (post-)colonial in Southern Africa: A seminar with Jean Comaroff and Wim van Binsbergen', Leiden University, International Centre/CNWS/ASC, 17 March 1995.
Keywords: Africa, Botswana
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Theorie als totem: Een etnografisch pleidooi (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Formal lecture in the seminar 'Westerse modellen en niet-westerse werkelijkheid', CERES/CNWS, Leiden, 25 January 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Tambiah's approach to magic against the background of developments in the anthropology of religion since the late 19th century (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Voordracht, Theme group on Magic and religion in the Ancient Near East, NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, 8 februari 1995.
Keywords: social sciences
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Globalisation avant la lettre? The case of Islamic geomancy and its world-wide spread, ca. 900-1995 CE (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the conference on: 'The global oikumene and the spread of knowledge', organised by the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, on behalf of the Netherlands/Stockholm/Chicago network on globalisation, Sigtuna (Sweden), 9-1
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Cultuur als stokpaard? naar aanleiding van Frits Seliers stuk ''Het antropologisch cultuurbegrip: Enkele opvattingen'' (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the departmental symposium 'Hedendaagse opvattingen over het antropologisch cultuurbegrip', department of cultural anthropology/sociology of development, Free University, 15 December 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Globalisation and decivilisation in urban Botswana: Towards a transcultural aesthetics? (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the EIDOS (European Interuniversity Development Opportunity Studies network) Conference on globalisation and decivilisation, Agricultural University Wageningen, The Netherlands, 14-16 December 1995.
Keywords: Botswana
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Professor en toverdokter (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Performance at the Rotterdam Festival, [ performance on the author's combined identity of professor and African spirit medium ] state room of the Rotterdam Town Hall, 16 September 1995.
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Divinatie antropologisch bezien (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture in the course 'Divinatie en macht' for post-graduate students reading Ancient History, Assyriologie, Classical Languages etc, Free University Amsterdam & Municipal University Amsterdam, 11 October 1995.
Keywords: history
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Antropologie en geschiedenis: paradigma's en ambachtelijkheid (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Lecture delivered before the Ph.D. candidate's seminar, Department of Cultural Anthropology/Sociology of Development, Free University, Amsterdam, 1 December 1995.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Four-tablet divination as trans-regional medical technology in southern Africa (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of religion in Africa

The forms of African divination which revolve around the use of a material apparatus, whose construction and application are more or less institutionalized and professionalized, constitute an important field of medical technology. This paper examines a system of divination...

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, divination, fieldwork, Zimbabwe
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Aspects of democracy and democratisation in Zambia and Botswana : exploring African political culture at the grassroots (1995)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of contemporary African studies

The current discussion on democratization in Africa tends towards Eurocentrism in that it pays insufficient attention to the analytical and methodological implications of cultural imperialism, localization, wrongly claimed universality, and the social price of relativism....

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, democracy, democratization, fieldwork, Kalanga, Nkoya, Tswana, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Towards local management of natural resources in Senegal (1995)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; J.P.M. van den Breemer; R.R. Bergh
Editors: J.P.M. van den Breemer; C.A. Drijver; L.B. Venema
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Local resources management in Africa
Keywords: Africa, Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Passing on the rites of passage : girls' initiation rites in the context of an urban Roman Catholic community on the Zambian Copperbelt (1995)
T. Rasing
Type of publication: Book

For nearly a century, girls' initiation rites in Zambia have been banned by Roman Catholic missionaries, who considered the rites pagan and immoral. However, initiation rites persisted, secretly and in curtailed form. Today the church has changed its point of view and...

Keywords: Catholic Church, girls' initiation, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The role of urban agriculture for food security in low income areas in Nairobi (1995)
A.M. Mwangi
Type of publication: Book

This paper, which is based on research carried out among 210 households in Nairobi (Kenya) in 1994, examines the role of urban agriculture in household food security among low-income urban households. It determines the different strategies the low-income population of Nairobi...

Keywords: food policy, Kenya, urban agriculture, urban households
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Food and nutrition surveillance and planning in Kilifi District, Kenya : a model for district based multi-sectoral policy formulation and planning (1995)
J.O. Owuor; W. Okello
Type of publication: Book

Chronic malnutrition has been consistently high in Kilifi District, Kenya, despite efforts to improve nutrition. This report presents an alternative approach to nutrition planning in Kilifi District, taking into account the multidimensional and multidisciplinary nature of...

Keywords: food, food policy, Kenya, malnutrition
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

A la recherche de l'agriculture durable au Bénin (1995)
Editors: P. Ton; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book

Compte-rendu d'un séminaire sur les recherches pour le développement d'une agriculture durable au Bénin qui s'est tenu le 9 septembre 1993 à Amsterdam, cet ouvrage comprend les textes de contributions répartis en quatre chapitres: 1) Sur la dégradation physique...

Keywords: 1993, agricultural land, Benin, conference papers (form), land law, land use, soil fertility
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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