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African Studies Abstracts Online: Number 29, 2010 Boin, M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A African Studies Abstracts Online: number 29, 2010 Boin, M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A. van Citation Boin, M., Polman, K., Sommeling, C. M., & Doorn, M. C. A. van. (2010). African Studies Abstracts Online: number 29, 2010. Leiden: African Studies Centre. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14553 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) License: Leiden University Non-exclusive license Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14553 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). Number 29, 2010 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 29, 2010 Contents Editorial policy .............................................................................................................iii Geographical index .....................................................................................................1 Subject index...............................................................................................................3 Author index ................................................................................................................7 Periodicals abstracted in this issue ...........................................................................14 Abstracts ...................................................................................................................18 Abstracts produced by Michèle Boin, Katrien Polman, Tineke Sommeling, Marlene C.A. Van Doorn i ii EDITORIAL POLICY EDITORIAL POLICY African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on sub-Saharan Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. New features Following recommendations from a survey among subscribers to the ASA Online mailing list in 2008/09, various improvements have been made to ASA Online. The navigation and search facilities have been enhanced and a link to full text has been included when available. It is now possible to navigate within ASA Online directly - from the table of contents to the corresponding page - from an entry number in the subject and author indexes to the page where the bibliographic description and abstract can be found - from the country name in the geographical index to the corresponding section of the abstracts and from the entry number to the page containing the bibliographic description and abstract - from the bibliographic description via the ASCLink to the full text of an article or publication if available (and where institutional or personal subscription allows) Another new feature is the inclusion of descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus for each entry. A link from each descriptor to the online catalogue produces a list of all titles on that topic in the ASC library. Coverage ASA Online covers edited works (up to 60 in each issue) and journals in the field of African studies. Some 240 journals are systematically scanned. Just over half are English-language journals, just under a quarter are French, and the rest are German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. Some 40 percent of the journals are published in Africa. Newspapers and weeklies, popular magazines, current affairs bulletins, statistical digests, directories, annual reports and newsletters are not scanned. Articles from journals published in Africa and from leading Africanist journals published outside the continent are provided with abstracts. Articles from other journals, including journals on North Africa, are catalogued and indexed without abstracts. All articles are included in the online catalogue of the ASC Library at http://opc4-ascl.pica.nl/DB=3/LNG=EN/ To be selected for abstracting/indexing an article must be at least three to four pages long and have been published in the past two years. In a few cases, an article may be excluded on the grounds of subject if this is marginal to the ASC library's collection profile. Articles in the field of literature iii EDITORIAL POLICY dealing with only one work are normally not selected. This also applies to purely descriptive articles covering current political/economic developments, which could be expected to become quickly outdated. Review articles and book reviews are not covered. Contents and arrangement ASA Online is published four times a year. Each issue contains up to 400 entries, numbered sequentially and arranged geographically according to the broad regions of Africa: Northeast, West, West Central, East, Southeast Central and Southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands. There is also a general section for entries whose scope extends beyond Africa, as well as sections dealing with Africa and with sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Within the regional sections, entries are arranged by country, and within each country, alphabetically according to author. Entries covering two countries appear twice, once under each country heading. Entries covering three or more countries are generally classified under the relevant regional heading. Each entry provides a bibliographic description together with English-language descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus and an abstract in the language of the original document. The abstract covers the essentials of the publication, generally including a description of subject and purpose, disciplinary approach, nature of the research and source materials. Where applicable an indication of the time period, specific geographical information, as well as the names of persons, languages and ethnic groups, are included. Indexes and list of sources Each issue of ASA Online contains a geographical index, a subject index, and an author index, all referring to entry number. The subject index is self-devised and is intended as a first and global indication of subjects with categories for general, religion and philosophy, culture and society, politics, economics, law, education, anthropology, medical care and health services, rural and urban planning and geography, language and literature, and history and biography. Entries included under more than one country heading are listed in the geographical index under each country. The subject and author indexes list the entry only once, the first time it appears. In addition, each issue of ASA Online contains a list of periodicals abstracted, indicating the issues which have been covered. A list of all periodicals regularly scanned for abstracting or indexing is available on the ASC website at: http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Abstracts/ Comments or suggestions can be sent to the editors at [email protected] iv GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number INTERNATIONAL General 1-3 AFRICA General 4-70 NORTHEAST AFRICA General 71 Eritrea 72-73 Ethiopia 74-82 Somalia 83-85 Sudan 86 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 87-105 WEST AFRICA General 106-110 Benin 111 Burkina Faso 112-114 Cape Verde 115 The Gambia 116-117 Ghana 118-133 Guinea 134 Liberia 135-137 Mali 138-141 Mauritania 142-143 Niger 144-148 Nigeria 149-178 Senegal 179-189 Sierra Leone 190-192 Togo 193 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 194 Angola 195-197 Cameroon 198-202 Central African Republic 203 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX Chad 204-206 Congo (Brazzaville) 207-212 Congo (Kinshasa) 213-224 Gabon 225-228 EAST AFRICA General 229-233 Burundi 234 Kenya 235-261 Rwanda 262-268 Tanzania 269-274 Uganda 275-286 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 287-289 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 290-291 Mozambique 292-295 Zambia 296-297 Zimbabwe 298-305 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 306-308 Botswana 309-312 Lesotho 313 Namibia 314-326 South Africa 327-412 Swaziland 413 ISLANDS Comoros 414 Madagascar 415-427 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 39, 135, 252, 273, 290, 320 scientific research; African studies 7, 47, 49, 338, 372 information science; press & communications 117, 158, 269, 278, 285, 378, 395 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 3, 22, 29, 30, 34, 50, 55, 100, 103, 104, 116, 153, 157, 160, 175, 196, 224, 231, 271, 292, 308, 312, 364, 381, 392, 397, 399, 403, 411 philosophy; world view; ideology 9, 16, 34, 46, 55, 161, 177, 241 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 17, 43, 53, 74, 102, 150, 173, 177, 208, 210, 239, 243, 254, 255, 275, 276, 286, 291, 293, 330, 331, 332, 333, 343, 348, 352, 354, 355, 362, 379, 383, 401 social organization & structure; group & class formation 20, 180, 202, 327 minority groups; refugees 195, 381 women's studies 10, 19, 46, 61, 125, 128, 131, 132, 136, 235, 246, 254, 259, 271, 277, 351, 392 rural & urban sociology 16, 26, 38, 427 migration; urbanization 85, 118, 123, 128, 180, 239, 287, 294, 295, 307, 329, 377 demography; population policy; family planning 279 household & family 283 D. Politics general 1, 5, 11, 22, 32, 41, 71, 78, 89, 115, 143, 149, 158, 168, 169, 198, 220, 227, 233, 237, 256, 269, 285, 338, 341, 346, 353, 364, 372 3 SUBJECT INDEX domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 73, 83, 84, 86, 93, 94, 105, 106, 113, 119, 122, 124, 126, 136, 137, 152, 153, 156, 159, 160, 166, 171, 193, 195, 197, 203, 204, 214, 222, 238, 245, 247, 260, 261, 263, 264, 270, 280, 286, 291, 292, 299, 303, 310, 313, 335, 368, 387, 393, 395, 399, 407 foreign affairs; foreign policy 12, 14, 42, 60, 77, 169, 245, 300, 306, 328, 347 international affairs; international organizations 2, 4, 37, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 91, 205, 206, 288, 289, 349, 361 E. Economics economic conditions; economic planning; infrastructure; energy 4, 12, 15, 23, 40, 42, 43,
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