Publications

De auteurs geven een praktijkvoorbeeld van verzoening als omgang met het kwaad. Het speelt in de academische wereld van Zuid-Afrika, die de apartheid maar moeizaam van zich af blijkt te schudden. Jonathan Jansen, de eerste zwarte rector van de Universiteit van de Vrijstaat,...

Waiting is a common feature of everyday encounters between individuals and organisations. Government officials and private sector workers make us wait for decisions, wait for services and times, simply wait our turn. Yet, little attention has beendevoted to theorising and...

The papers in this special issue were first presented at a workshop at Stellenbosch University in October 2009. The theme of the workshop was the concept of liminality, denoting the middle phase of any ritual process, as developed by Victor Turner (1920-1983), as well as its...

The Great Limpopo is one of the largest Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in the world, encompassing vast areas in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The TFCA concept is embraced by practically all (international) conservation agencies. The rationale for the...

The article investigates the increasingly important connections between the private sector and nature conservation agencies. It looks specifically at the connections between two important philanthropists, the late Anton Rupert, a South African business tycoon, and the late...

Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the...

Africa has a wide array of polities that are characterized by extremely diverging leadership styles. How can the same continent house a Mugabe and a Bokassa, but also a Nyerere and a Mandela? Based on the Bourdieu notion of types of capital as thebasis for inequality in...

Een antropologisch verhaal start vaak vanuit een dorp; hier is dat Tireli, een dorp van 3000 mensen, gelegen aan de voet van de Falaise van Bandiagara, een klif van 200 meter hoog en 150 kilometer lang. Deze klif is gezichtsbepalend voor dit gebied en vormt de majestueuze...

This book discusses the consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell the Cameroonian agro-industrial sector in the 1980s, using as a case study the plantation economy of the anglophone region of Cameroon. Two agro-industrial enterprises have dominated the...

Our intention with this brochure is to illustrate the kind of research we do at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, as well as how we work and what inspires us.