Publications

Reacts upon Robert H. Bates' Rural responses to industrialization : a study of village Zambia' (London, 1976), which is an attempt to account for the transformation of Zambian society. Argues that most of Bates' answers are wrong

A generic relation holds between two types of cult of affliction in formerly Barotseland. Cults of one type, the non-regional, form a substratum out of which cults of the other type, the regional, may spring forth under certain conditions, and into which they submerge again...

Review of Robert H. Bates, Rural Responses to Industrialization: A Study of Village Zambia, New Haven & London, 1976. Even though this book is important because it is a major step towards asking the right questions concerning the transformation of Central-African society...

States that formal Local Courts did exist all right, but they were peripheral rather than central to the judicial process, and to the conflict-regulatory process in general, and such conflictws as most deeply concerned and aroused local communities, were hardly subject to...

This article explores the deeper structural implications of the Lumpa rising in 1964, in the context of religious innovation, class formation, and the state in Zambia. After having mentioned the specific problems raised by Lumpa, the A. first discusses the background of...

V.W. Turner's theory of ritual symbolism among the Ndembu Lunda (1958) is analysed with regard to its applicability to urban ritual. Main purpose in this paper is not to provide a thorough summary and evaluation of Turner's work, but to consider only one limited...

Brief elucidation of the diverse contributions to a special issue of "African Perspectives" concerning religious innovation in modern African society. Ref

Abridged sum.: Three groups of Ugandan children who had been admitted to hospital for treatment of protein energy malnutrition between the ages of eight to 27 months, and one comparison group of children who had not been clinically malnourished throughout the whole period up...

This study is concerned with the relation between protein-energy malnutrition and the intellectual abilities of children in Uganda. The findings are based on the investigation of a group of 60 Ugandan boys and girls who became severely malnourished during the first 27 months...

This review of the development and current status of psychology in Africa focuses on Africa south of the Sahara, excluding South Africa. The author discusses the research topics which have attracted the attention of psychologists in Africa, including perception (illusions,...

Deze verhandeling beoogt een vergelijking tussen twee soorten rechtspraak in Noord-Togo, het westers georiënteerd recht en een verscheidenheid van plaatselijk verschillend volksrecht. De rechtspraak vormt een duidelijk spanningsveld tussen een van "boven af" of...

After an introductory chapter on the assumptions and methods of the study, which was carried out in Sierra Leone in 1971, this report contains chapters on marriage, divorce, property rights of women, maintenance responsibilities, rights over children and adoption under...

Focuses upon social interaction patterns in the Housing Estate of Kitale (Kenya). The inhabitants of this low income Housing Estate are sensitive to the same kind of spatial characteristics of housing as are people living under similar conditions in other societies. Both...