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; P.L. Geschiere
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; P.L. Geschiere
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Old modes of production and capitalist encroachment : anthropological explorations in Africa

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' -...

Keywords: Africa, anthropological research, Cameroon, fieldwork, Marxism, politics
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; P.L. Geschiere
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Old modes of production and capitalist encroachment : anthropological explorations in Africa

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...

Keywords: Africa, African studies, ethnicity, historiography, Nkoya, Rural, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; J.M. Schoffeleers
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Theoretical explorations in Africa religion

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myth and briefly indicating the relatively ahistorical elements, the author builds up a framework which opens out the historical content for analysis.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...

Keywords: Africa, Islam, marabouts, myths (form), Tunisia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Urban Anthropology
Keywords: Senegal
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; B. Sall
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Netherlands, private aid, rural development, Senegal
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; C. Miginiac
Type of publication: Book

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....

Keywords: political conditions, public law, Senegal
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.F.M. Zaal; I. van Tienhoven; M. Schomaker; R. Andiema; A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Kenya, Regional development, West-Pokot
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; A. van Haastrecht; M. Schomaker; B. Vermaat; M. Schomaker; R.P. Chizupo; R. Andiema; S. Lopeyok; A.F.M. Zaal; I. van Tienhoven
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: agriculture, Kenya, living conditions, Rural population, Semi-arid areas, West-Pokot
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; A. van Haastrecht; M. Schomaker; B. Vermaat; M. Schomaker; R.P. Chizupo; R. Andiema; S. Lopeyok; A.F.M. Zaal; I. van Tienhoven
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: agriculture, Kenya, living conditions, Rural population, Semi-arid areas, West-Pokot
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; A. Owiti; J. Kipkan
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Netherlands, West-Pokot
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Book

Description of the rising of the menalamba, the Red Shawls, against colonial rule after the conquest of Madagascar by the French in 1895. The menalamba were those who resisted France in the name of the kingdom of Madagascar or the kingdom of Imerina, a central kingdom on the...

Keywords: African studies, anticolonialism, civil war, Country, history, Madagascar, Menalamba revolt, Merina polity
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator

Ondanks een hongersnood van zeer dramatische omvang, interne politieke onrust, aanhoudende burgeroorlog en economische problemen lijkt het door militairen geleide bewind in Ethiopië stevig in het zadel te blijven zitten en de 'revolutie van bovenaf' voortgang te...

Keywords: Ethiopia, foreign policy, military regimes, nation building
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: anthropology, Bibliographies (form), Ethiopia, Ethnic groups
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Methodology and Science
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
T. Kliest
Type of publication: Book

The Kano Plain in Kisumu District today provides examples of both small-scale individual and large-scale organized rice irrigation activities. The area has a rather uniform ecology and is largely inhabited by a single ethnic group, the Luo. This report provides background...

Keywords: agricultural ecology, agricultural land, Kenya, land use
Added to database: 27 June 2012
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Review
In: Geografisch Tijdschrift
Keywords: poverty
Added to database: 03 April 2012
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Review
In: NRC/Handelsblad
Added to database: 03 April 2012
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; S. van der Geest
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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