Publications

This collection of papers on theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of African religion is the outcome of a conference held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in 1979. It reviews the major classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to African...

Revised version of a book first published in 1982 in Dutch entitled "Oude produktiewijzen en binnendringend kapitalisme" by the Free University, Amsterdam, in association with the African Studies Centre, Leiden. The modern history of Africa can be seen in Marxist...

Contents: 1. Introduction (is there a case for a Marxist approach in anthropological fieldwork - the structure of our argument). 2. The level of production as a problem in anthropological fieldwork (data on production - the concept of 'mode of production' -...

The author argues that Zambian rural anthropology is on the decline, and that this decline is related to the reliance, among anthropologists, on the tribe and ethnic group as the basic unit of study in the past; that the one way to escape from the tribal model on the...

The myth, the author focus upon, is that of Sidi Mhammad, a local saint venerated in N.W. Tunisia. After presenting the myth and briefly indicating the relatively ahistorical elements, the author builds up a framework which opens out the historical content for analysis. This...

L'ouvrage traite de la réception du droit constitutionnel français par le Sénégal. "Réception" s'entend comme le processus de transfert d'éléments de droit entre des systèmes de droit nationaux séparés entre eux dans l'espace ou dans le temps....

From the 1850's to mid 1890's Africans were employed in top positions in the embryonic West African colonial services. This book contains the biographies of three of them: Ferguson on the Gold Coast, Lawson in Sierra Leone and Payne in Nigeria. All three had in...

Literatuuronderzoek over politieke ontwikkelingen in dit land. Er werd gekozen voor een beperkt aantal cruciale staatsinstanties, gegeven het historische feit dat bij het ontstaan en de verdere ontwikkeling van de staat Guiné-Bissau de politieke partij PAIGC een dominerende...

Summ.: An inventory of government-regulated producer prices in tropical Africa for the period 1960-1980. Statistical data are presented for 29 countries and 11 major crops (seven export crops and four food crops). A review of price movements indicate that: there has been a...

An account of the events leading up to independence in Mwase Lundazi, a chieftainship in the eastern province of Zambia, based on research carried out in 1977-1978, including 19 interviews with politicians or people with a history in politics in the area. The case of Mwase...

Through his own work in Mwasi Lundazi, the author discovered the relevance of the studies produced by social scientists working at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Lusaka for an understanding of contemporary Zambia. Although the fieldwork was done and written up in the...

The main manifest function of Chama Cha Mapundizi (CCM), Tanzania's one party, is political recruitment. It is an institution to generate candidates for public office. Anybody who aspires towards a political position must seek support in the party. With this in mind, the...