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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Reviewing reality : dynamics of African divination (2013)
Editors: W.E.A. van Beek; P.M. Peek
Type of publication: Book

This collection reveals the diversity and complexity of African divination systems, focusing on (self-)knowledge and healing (section 1), social reality (section 2), and intercultural and historical relations (section 3). Contributions: Of divinatory 'co-naissance' among the...

Keywords: Africa, Anufo, Anyi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, divination, Kapsiki, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Uduk, Xhosa, Yaka, yélé, Yoruba
Added to database: 08 December 2015

Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Nigeria (2013)
A. Akinyoade; A.J. Dietz; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015

Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Tanzania (2013)
A.H.M. Leliveld; A.J. Dietz; W. Klaver; B. Kilama; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Tanzania
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015

Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Uganda (2013)
A.H.M. Leliveld; A.J. Dietz; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Uganda
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015

A half century of abstracting at the African Studies Centre Leiden (2013)
M.C.A. van Doorn
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African Research & Documentation

The article discusses the history of the abstracts and indexing journal originally known as 'Documentatieblad,' which was renamed to 'African Studies Abstracts (ASA)' and later to 'African Studies Abstracts Online' (ASAO), published by the African...

Keywords: Africa, African Studies centres, documentation centres, information services, Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2015

Imagining a Silicon Valley : technological and conceptual connectivity in Kenya's BPO and software development sectors (2013)
M. Graham; L. Mann
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Electronic journal of information systems in developing countries

This is a paper about expectations surrounding a potentially highly transformative moment in East Africa's history: the arrival of underwater fibre-optic broadband communications cables into the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. It combines a media content analysis with findings...

Keywords: information technology, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 12 March 2015

'We do our bit in our own space' : DAL Group and the development of a curiously Sudanese enclave economy (2013)
L. Mann
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of modern African studies

The family firm, DAL Group, is Sudan's largest and most diversified company. Its growth has concentrated on consumer goods, rather than on state concessions or exports. It has developed its own training programmes, construction units, transportation networks and market...

Keywords: business organization, labour recruitment, private enterprises, Sudan
Added to database: 12 March 2015

Constantijn Huygens en toekomstvisie op de bibliotheek (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

Bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble? Een collectie van een 17e-eeuwse Grote Nederlander en een Amerikaanse toekomstvisie op bibliotheken hebben op het eerste gezicht weinig met elkaar te maken. Maar voor bibliotheken zijn speciale collecties net zo belangrijk...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Bibliotheken worden kapot bezuinigd - en dat is deels hun eigen schuld (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

De overheid bezuinigt op bibliotheken. Openbare bibliotheken vangen dat op door filialen te sluiten en met uitleenautomaten en minder mensen hetzelfde te doen als vroeger. Bij wetenschappelijke bibliotheken verdwijnt alle franje en worden facultaire bibliotheken gesloten.

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Big data en handschriften van Christiaan Huygens (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

In de achtste aflevering van een serie combinatiebesprekingen (digitaal & speciaal) schenkt Jos Damen aandacht aan een onderzoek naar big data van bibliotheekcatalogi en een catalogus van het werk van het Nederlandse genie Christiaan Huygens.

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Geschiedschrijving of zelffelicitatie?: universiteitsbibliotheken van Leiden en Groningen geboekstaafd (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

Nederlandse bibliotheken zijn te bescheiden. Ze spelen een belangrijke rol in de Nederlandse maatschappij, maar scheppen daar nauwelijks over op, vindt Jos Damen. De onlangs verschenen boeken over de geschiedenis van de universiteitsbibliotheken in Groningen en Leiden maken...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Diversification strategies in the Netherlands agricultural sector (2013)
M. Spierenburg; H. Wels
Editors: F. Hendricks; L. Ntsebeza; K. Helliker
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The promise of land: undoing a century of dispossession in South Africa
Keywords: agriculture, Netherlands
Added to database: 09 July 2014

Whispering empathy: transdisciplinary reflections on research methodology (2013)
H. Wels
Editors: B. Musschenga; A. van Harskamp
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: What makes us moral?: on the capacities and conditions for being moral

According to world famous primatologist Frans de Waal we live in 'the age of empathy'. De Waal is part of a long tradition of biologists who have argued for recognizing individual emotions, altruism and morality in human and non-human animals alike. This is an intellectual...

Added to database: 09 July 2014

Editorial introduction: sexuality, intimacy and counselling: perspectives from Africa (2013)
E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Culture, health and sexuality
Keywords: Africa, counselling, sexuality
Added to database: 06 June 2014

Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia: a special issue (2013)
Editors: A. Bochow; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

In many African societies today Christian churches, in particular Pentecostal churches, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body and health. This is motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but is also related to globally circulating...

Keywords: gender relations, marriage, Pentecostalism, sexuality, Sub-Sahara Afrika, women
Added to database: 06 June 2014

Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana (2013)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Culture, health and sexuality

In African societies where HIV and AIDS are widespread, counselling is being used in an attempt to control people's sexual relationships and has become an important
industry. Counselling is centrally placed in many AIDS-related policies in Botswana and is sponsored by...

Keywords: Botswana, counselling, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 06 June 2014

Special issue: Counselling, sexuality and intimacy: perspectives from Africa (2013)
Editors: E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

This special issue is dedicated to examining practices of counselling as one of the most important social forms in which the dialectics of revelation and concealment play out. The special issue breaks new ground since it is the first collection of social science papers...

Keywords: Africa, counselling, sexuality
Added to database: 06 June 2014

From my perspective as a Suri - narratives on Suri life: introduction (2013)
M. Bryant; G.J. Abbink
Editors: G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia)
Keywords: Ethiopia, Suri
Added to database: 28 April 2014

Introduction to the society and history of the Suri people (2013)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia)
Keywords: Ethiopia, history, Suri
Added to database: 28 April 2014

Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia) (2013)
G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ethiopia, oral traditions, Suri, Suri language
Added to database: 28 April 2014

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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 12 September 2024