Introduction: A transcontinental career: Essays in honour of Wim van Binsbergen
by Pius M. Mosima...................................................................................................... 7
Van Binsbergen’s ‘Cultures do not exist’ revisited
by Pieter Boele van Hensbroek............................................................................... 21
Les défies de la participation africaine au monde africaniste occidental
par Julie Ndaya Tshiteku.......................................................................................... 33
The Belly Open: Fieldwork, Defecation and Literature with a Capital L
by Sjaak van der Geest.............................................................................................. 51
Becoming Chinese Indonesians: An affirmative approach to social identity
by Stephanus Djunatan............................................................................................. 61
Facets of the Egyptian Ennead in Relation to a Posited Indo-European and Chinese Ten-God System
by Emily Lyle............................................................................................................. 87
The traditions of Gulfeil: Projection of Israelite-Assyrian history on the local conditions
by Dierk Lange.......................................................................................................... 95
Sacred deer in Japan
by Kazuo Matsumura............................................................................................... 127
Urban female initiation rites in globalised Christian Zambia: An example of virtuality?
by Thera Rasing........................................................................................................ 137
Recurrent Indo-European ethnonyms
by Fred C. Woudhuizen.......................................................................................... 175
Our Lodge of Being: Language
by Bongasu Tanla Kishani...................................................................................... 193
Protohistory, Presocratics, and philosophy
by Sanya Osha.......................................................................................................... 197
Kobia’s Clash: Ubuntu and international management within the World Council of Churches
by Frans Dokman.................................................................................................... 229
The Graeco-Egyptian origins of Western myths and philosophy, and a note
on the magnificence of the creative mind
by Louise Muller...................................................................................................... 251
An African itinerary towards intercultural philosophy: A conversation with Wim van Binsbergen
by Pius M. Mosima.................................................................................................. 281
Notes on contributors............................................................................................. 303
Books / independent publications by Wim van Binsbergen (literary work not included).................................................................................................................. 307