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Nkoya
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publication
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Intercultural
encounters
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general philosophical discussion of
the problem of intercultural knowledge production, contains many Nkoya
examples, and several chapters are entirely devoted to Nkoya case
studies (also see below) |
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Wim
van Binsbergen, 2003, Intercultural
encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a
philosophy of interculturality,
Berlin/Muenster: LIT, 610 pp. |
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 The dynamics of power and the rule of
law
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a general discussion of
African chieftainship in precolonial, colonial and postcolonial times;
contains an important chapter on kingship in Western Zambia (including
Nkoya) in the 19th century |
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Wim
van Binsbergen, (ed.)
in collaboration with Riekje
Pelgrim
The dynamics of power and the rule of
law: Essays on Africa and beyond: in honour of Emile Adriaan van
Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Berlin/Muenster: LIT for African Studies Centre,
Leiden, 337 pp., bibliographies, index of proper names, author
index
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original
Dutch version
English
version in Quest:
An African Journal of Philosophy,
final
English version in Intercultural
encounters (2003)
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the author's professorial
inaugural lecture in the chair of intercultural philosophy, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1999; contains many references to
Nkoya life |
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Wim
van Binsbergen, 1999, 'Culturen bestaan
niet': Het onderzoek van interculturaliteit als een openbreken
van vanzelfsprekendheden,
oratie 'grondslagen van interculturele filosofie', Rotterdam:
Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam,
Rotterdamse Filosofische Studies XXIV, 1999, 48 pp (inaugural
lecture, Rotterdam)
English version greatly revised and
expanded version published in Quest:
An African Journal of Philosophy, xiii
(1999),
and subsequently incorporated in Wim
van Binsbergen's book Intercultural
encounters (2003)
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Kazanga festival: Ethnicity as cultural mediation and transformation in
central western Zambia |
the author's professorial inaugural
lecture in the chair of the anthropology of ethnicity, Free University,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992; contains a detailed study of the
articulation of ethnic identity through the Kazanga Cultural Association
and its annual festival |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1992, Kazanga: Etniciteit
in Afrika tussen staat en traditie, oratie (inaugural lecture),
Amsterdam: Free University;
shortened French version: ‘Kazanga:
Ethnicite en Afrique entre Etat et tradition’, in: Binsbergen, W.M.J.
van, & Schilder, K., red., Perspectives on Ethnicity in Africa,
special issue ‘Ethnicity’, Afrika Focus, Gent (Belgie),
1993, 1: 9-40;
English version with postscript: van Binsbergen,
W.M.J., 1994, ‘The Kazanga festival: Ethnicity as cultural mediation
and transformation in central western Zambia’, African Studies,
53, 2, 1994, pp 92-125.
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| From
tribe to ethnicity in Western Zambia |
detailed study of Nkoya identity and
history in confrontation with the Lozi (Luyi) and the national state up
to the early 1980s |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1985, ‘From tribe to
ethnicity in western Zambia: The unit of study as an ideological
problem’, in: W.M.J. van Binsbergen & P. Geschiere, eds., Old
modes of production and capitalist encroachment: Anthropological
explorations in Africa, London: Kegan Paul International, pp.
181-234. |
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De
chaos getemd? Samenwonen en zingeving in modern Afrika
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investigates the conditions for
community life and reconciliation among the rural Nkoya in comparison
with urban Botswana |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1991, ‘De chaos getemd?
Samenwonen en zingeving in modern Afrika’, in: H.J.M. Claessen red., De
chaos getemd?, Leiden: Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen,
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1991, pp. 31-47. |
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Law
in the context of Nkoya society, Western Zambia, 1970s
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detailed discussion of Nkoya
customary law especially family and marriage law |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1977, ‘Law in the context of
Nkoya society’, in: S. Roberts, ed., Law and the family in Africa,
The Hague/Paris: Mouton, pp. 39-68. |
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Globalization
and virtuality: Analytical problems posed by the contemporary
transformation of African societies
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aspects of the globalisation of
African culture today, discussed by reference to Nkoya examples such as
female puberty ceremonies and the Kazanga Annual Festival |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1998, ‘Globalization and
virtuality: Analytical problems posed by the contemporary transformation
of African societies’, in: Meyer, B., & Geschiere, P., eds., Globalization
and idenity: Dialectics of flow and closure, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.
273-303; also published as: van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1998,
‘Globalization and virtuality: Analytical problems posed by the
contemporary transformation of African societies’, in: Meyer, B.,
& Geschiere, P., eds., Globalization and identity: Dialectics of
flows and closures, special issue, Development and Change,
29, 4, October 1998, pp. 873-903 |
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The
Janus situation: Development and the intercontinental circulation of
knowledge and ignorance
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provocative discussion of the role of
regional information brokers in Africa between the grassroots level and
international development agencies; case study of the Nkoya situation |
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| Minority
language and the state in Zambia and Botswana |
ethnic and language situation of the
Nkoya as compared to the Kalanga of Botswana and southwestern Zimbabwe |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1994, ‘Minority language,
ethnicity and the state in two African situations: the Nkoya of Zambia
and the Kalanga of Botswana’, in: Fardon, R. & Furniss, G., red., African
languages, development and the state, Londen etc.: Routledge, pp.
142-188. |
Democracy
and democratisation in Zambia and Botswana
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aspects of the Nkoya in national
politics as compared to Botswana
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van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1995, ‘Aspects of democracy and democratisation in Zambia and Botswana: Exploring political culture at the grassroots’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 13, 1: 3-33; reprinted in: Tom Young,. ed., 2004, Readings in African Politics, International Africa Institute in cooperation with Indiana University Press and James Currey, London etc., pp. 202-214
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| State
penetration and the Nkoya experience, western Zambia, 1800-1986 |
aspects of the Nkoya in national
politics |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1986, ‘The post-colonial
state, “state penetration” and the Nkoya experience in Central
Western Zambia’, in: W.M.J. van Binsbergen, F. Reijntjens &
G.S.C.M. Hesseling (eds), State and local community in Africa,
Brussels: Cahiers du CEDAF, pp.31-63. |
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Can
anthropology become the theory of peripheral class struggle?
Reflections on the work of Pierre-Philippe Rey
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Can a foreign researcher make a
positive contribution to the society she or he studies? Must such a
contribution be of a radical political nature? Can it be? Examples taken
from the author's Nkoya research |
| van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1984, ‘Can anthropology
become the theory of peripheral class struggle?: Reflexions on the
work of P.P. Rey’, in: Van Binsbergen, W.M.J., & G.S.C.M.
Hesseling, eds, Aspecten van staat en maatschappij in Afrika:
Recent Dutch and Belgian research on the African state,
Leiden: African Studies Centre, pp. 163-80; German version
published as: van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1984, ‘Kann die Ethnologie
zur Theorie des Klassenkampfes in der Peripherie werden?’, Osterreichische
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, 9, 4: 138-48; revised
version included as chapter 3 in: van
Binsbergen, W.M.J., Intercultural encounters:
African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of
interculturality, Berlin/Muenster: LIT |
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Labour
migration and the generation conflict
An essay on social change in central western Zambia
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aspects of Nkoya life in the middle
of the 20th century, with special emphasis on labour migration,
chieftainship and witchcraft |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1975, ‘Labour migration and
the generation conflict: Social change in Western Zambia’, paper read
at the 34th Annual Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology, Section:
Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Migration, Amsterdam,
19-22 March 1975. |
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Chiefs
and the state in independent Zambia
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general study of Zambian
chieftainship in the postcolonial period, inspired by the Nkoya
situation, which features in examples |
van Binsbergen W. M. J., 1987, ‘Chiefs and the State
in Independent Zambia : exploring the Zambian National Press’, in: J.
Griffiths & E. A. B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal (eds), Journal of
Legal Pluralism, special issue on chieftainship in Africa, n°
25-26, pp. 139-201. |
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Nkoya
royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in western central
Zambia today: Resilience, decline, or folklorisation?
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here for French version
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Chieftainship is a time-honoured
idiom that does not follow the logic of the state and other modern
formal organisations; a voluntary association such as the Kazanga
Cultural Association comes much closer to that logic. How do
chieftainship and Kazanga interact among the Nkoya to effect a
transformation of chieftainship? |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1999, ‘Nkoya royal chiefs and
the Kazanga Cultural Association in western central Zambia today:
Resilience, decline, or folklorisation?’, in: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van
Nieuwaal & R. van Dijk, eds., African chieftaincy in a new
socio-political landscape, Hamburg/ Munster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 97-133 |
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Les
chefs royaux nkoya et l’Association culturelle Kazanga dans la Zambie
du centre-ouest aujourd’hui: Resiliation,
declin ou folklorisation de la fonction du chef traditionnel?
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here for English version
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previous article in French version |
Slightly compressed French version of: van Binsbergen,
W.M.J., 1999, ‘Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association
in western central Zambia today: Resilience, decline, or
folklorisation?’, in: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal & R. van
Dijk, eds., African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape,
Hamburg/ Munster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 97-133; French version now in the
press in: Perrot, C.-H., ed., Actes du colloque sur la chefferie en
Afrique (Paris 1999) |
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Mukanda:
Towards a history of circumcision rites in western Zambia, 18th-20th
century
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traces the history of male puberty
rites from from the last centuries before colonial rule, and assesses
its conjuncture as a marker, first of Nkoya identity, than of non-Nkoya
identity |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1993, ‘Mukanda: Towards a
history of circumcision rites in western Zambia, 18th-20th century’,
in: J.-P. Chretien, avec collaboration de C.-H.Perrot, G. Prunier &
D. Raison-Jourde, eds., L’invention religieuse en Afrique:
Histoire et religion en Afrique noire, Paris: Agence de Culture et
de Cooperation Technique/Karthala, pp. 49-103. |
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Violence,
state formation, and cultural discontinuity in west central Zambia,
1600-1996 (PDF)
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an important chapter on kingship in
Western Zambia (including Nkoya) in the 19th century; argues that
chieftainship became a central expression of ethnic identity in the
course of the 20th century, despite the fact that in the precolonial
period the royal court, with its violently exploitative power,
was essentially discontinuous vis-à-vis the culture of reconciliation
and non-violence that governed Nkoya villange life |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1996, ‘
‘‘Then give him to the crocodiles’’: Violence, state
formation, and cultural discontinuity in west central Zambia,
1600-1996’, in: van Binsbergen, W.M.J., ed., Anthropology on
violence: A one-day conference, Amsterdam: Department of Cultural
Anthropology/ Sociology of Development, Vrije Universiteit, pp.
75-91;
Dutch version: van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1993, ‘ ‘‘ Geef hem
dan maar aan de krokodillen’’: Staatsvorming, geweld en
culturele discontinuiteit in voor-koloniaal Zuidelijk Centraal
Afrika’, contribution to a special issue on state formation,
guest editors H. Dahles & A. Trouwborst, Antropologische
Verkenningen, 12, 4: 10-31, 1993;
final version published as: ‘Then give him to the
crocodiles’’: Violence, state formation, and cultural
discontinuity in west central Zambia, 1600-2000’, in: van
Binsbergen, W.M.J., in collaboration with Pelgrim, R., ed., The
dynamics of power and the rule of law: Essays on Africa and
beyond: in honour of Emile Adriaan van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal,
Berlin/Muenster: LIT for African Studies Centre, pp. 197-219. |
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| Class
formation, modes and branches of production, and the penetration of
capitalism in the Kaoma rural district, Zambia, 1800-1978 |
traces the history of modes of
production among the Nkoya from the 17th century onwards |
van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 1978, ‘Class formation and
the penetration of capitalism in a Zambian rural district’, paper read
at the seminar on Class Formation in Africa, 18-19 May, 1978, Leiden:
African Studies Centre |
