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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G.S.C.M. Hesseling; S. van der Geest
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Aspecten van staat en maatschappij in Afrika : recent Dutch and Belgian research on the African state / onder red. van Wim van Binsbergen en Gerti Hesseling. - Leiden : African Studies Centre: (1984), p. 367-389 : fig., krt

Present-day Senegal has two land law systems: a variety of land tenure systems at the local level, and a national land law system based on modern concepts, laid down by the State in the 1964 Act concerning Public Land (Loi sur le Domaine national). The author examines in what...

Keywords: African studies, conflict of laws, land law, land tenure, Senegal, urban areas
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book

Recurring theme of the work is the process of formation and perception of social and ethnic identity within the framework of the assimilation effort. A form of ethnic group formation and of emphasizing ethnic distinctiveness is emerging among the Falashas mainly as a...

Keywords: Ethiopia, Falashas, fieldwork, group formation, identity, migration
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer; W. van Steenbergen
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: child nutrition, children, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A study on Food Policy Formulation and Implementation in Kenya, Mali, Rwanda and Zambia
Keywords: Country, Kenya, Mali, policy, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Nieuwsbrief van Nederlandstalige Rechtssociologen, Rechtsantropologen

In a critical overview of the anthropology of law in the Netherlands in the 1970s (NNR, 4 (1983), 2, p.132/140) Griffiths levels a very specific and violent attack on research and research policy at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. This article is a reply to what he says...

Keywords: African studies, legal anthropology, Netherlands, policy
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Aspecten van staat en maatschappij in Afrika : recent Dutch and Belgian research on the African state

Deze bundel, een weerslag van een tweedaagse workshop over staat en maatschappij in Afrika, gehouden medio december 1981 te Leiden, bevat naast een inleidend hoofdstuk van beide redacteurs, acht theoretisch-vergelijkende studies en elf case-studies. Gezamenlijk geven ze een...

Keywords: 1981, Africa, conference papers (form), political systems
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling; M.R. Doornbos
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Aspecten van staat en maatschappij in Afrika : recent Dutch and Belgian research on the African state

After constructing a working definition of constitutional preambles, the authors examine the variations in form and content of the preambles of independence or post-independence constitutions of five francophone states in Black Africa; Niger (1960) Cameroon (1972), Senegal (...

Keywords: Africa, Cameroon, constitutions, French-speaking Africa, Mali, Senegal, Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Antropologische verkenningen

Case study of the position and religious activities of Manjak labour migrants from the administrative divisions of Calequisse and Caió in the Cacheu region, who spend a substantial portion of their lives in urban centers in Senegal and France while maintaining close ritual...

Keywords: African religions, Guinea-Bissau, Mandjak, migration, modes of production, religious rituals, Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Workshop on State penetration at the local level in Africa', Antwerp, 20-21 December 1984, 14 pp
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Vier verhalen over Afrikaanse vrouwen

Keywords: novels (form), Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book

Deze bundel, een weerslag van een tweedaagse workshop over staat en maatschappij in Afrika, gehouden medio december 1981 te Leiden, bevat naast een inleidend hoofdstuk van beide redacteurs, acht theoretisch-vergelijkende studies en elf case-studies. Gezamenlijk geven ze een...

Keywords: 1981, Africa, conference papers (form), political systems
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Aspecten van staat en maatschappij in Afrika : recent Dutch and Belgian research on the African state

Underlying Pierre Philippe Rey's specific theoretical contributions on the articulation of modes of production is a more general conception of the nature and project of anthropology and of the political role of the anthropologist in the class struggle of Third World...

Keywords: Africa, anthropology, fieldwork, Marxism, social scientists
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Tribaal
Keywords: Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: The journal of African history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: The journal of African history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Review
In: Sociologia
Added to database: 03 April 2012
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Rural communities : first part : societies without writing (Africa - America - Europe)

Nkoya is an ethnic and linguistic label applying to about 50,000 people inhabiting the wooded plateau of Central Western Zambia. The author discusses the valley as the effective rural community and the villages as the main constituent social units within the valley and...

Keywords: Africa, Nkoya, Rural, rural society, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Senegal
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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