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African Studies Abstracts Online: Number 5, 2004 Boin, M.; Eijkman, E.M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A African Studies Abstracts Online: number 5, 2004 Boin, M.; Eijkman, E.M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A. van Citation Boin, M., Eijkman, E. M., Polman, K., Sommeling, C. M., & Doorn, M. C. A. van. (2004). African Studies Abstracts Online: number 5, 2004. Leiden: African Studies Centre. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/476 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) License: Leiden University Non-exclusive license Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/476 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE ISSN 1570-937X African Studies Abstracts Online is published four times a year on the journal´s website http://asc.leidenuniv.nl/library/abstracts/asa-online/ where it can be consulted free of charge. Editorial correspondence to: Afrika-Studiecentrum PO Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden Tel.: +31-(0)71-527 3354 E-mail: [email protected] Library address for visitors: Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, The Netherlands © 2003-2004 Stichting Afrika-Studiecentrum AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 5, 2004 Contents Editorial policy................................................................................................... iii Geographical index........................................................................................... 1 Subject index .................................................................................................... 3 Author index...................................................................................................... 7 Books abstracted in this issue........................................................................... 13 Periodicals abstracted in this issue................................................................... 14 Abstracts........................................................................................................... 17 Abstracts produced by Michèle Boin, Elvire Eijkman, Katrien Polman, Tineke Sommeling, Marlene C.A. Van Doorn ii EDITORIAL POLICY African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the African Studies Centre library. Coverage African Studies Abstracts Online covers all the leading journals in the field of African studies, together with a number of journals dealing with third world countries and development studies in general. Some 240 journals are systematically scanned. Just over half of these are English-language journals, just under a quarter are French, and most of the rest are German. A few Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese-language journals are also covered. Some 40 per cent of all the journals are published in Africa. Newspapers and weeklies, popular magazines and current affairs bulletins, statistical digests, directories, annual reports and newsletters are, with rare exceptions, not scanned. In principle all articles dealing with Africa, with the exception of North Africa (Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara), are selected for inclusion in African Studies Abstracts Online. However, an article must be at least two to three pages long, and have been published within the past two years (though some allowance is made for journals which have fallen behind on publication schedules or which, for whatever reason, have taken a long time to arrive). In a few specific cases, an article may be excluded on the grounds of subject. In particular, articles in the field of linguistics and those in the field of literature and dealing with only one work are normally not included. This also applies to purely descriptive articles covering current political events or economic developments, which could be expected to become quickly outdated, though this rule is applied less rigorously in the case of a country about which very little is otherwise published. Review articles and book reviews are not covered. Similar criteria apply in the case of edited works. Those whose individual chapters cover a range of subjects and countries are selected for abstracting and indexing on a chapter-by- chapter basis. Edited works dealing with one theme as it relates to various countries, or with various aspects of the situation in one single country, are abstracted and indexed on a monograph basis. Up to 20 edited works will be included in each issue of African Studies Abstracts Online, of which some 5 are abstracted and indexed on a chapter-by-chapter basis. iii Contents and arrangement African Studies Abstracts Online is to be published four times a year. Each issue contains up to 450 titles with abstracts of collective volumes, journal articles and chapters from edited works. Items are numbered sequentially and arranged geographically according to the broad regions of Africa. There is a preliminary general section for entries whose scope extends beyond Africa, followed by a separate section for entries dealing with the continent as a whole. There is also a section for entries dealing with sub-Saharan Africa. Within the broad geographical regions of Northeast, West, West Central, East, Southeast Central and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, 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 the conventional bibliographical information together with an abstract written in the language of the original document. The abstract covers the essentials of the publication in 10-20 lines. It includes a description of subject and purpose, disciplinary approach and nature of the research, and source materials (fieldwork, archives, oral traditions, etc.) and, where applicable, an indication of the time period, as well as specific geographical information such as the names of towns and villages or districts, and the names of persons, languages and ethnic groups. Abstracts of collective volumes detail the subject and author(s) of individual chapters insofar as possible and can often be likened to a table of contents. Indexes and list of sources Each issue of African Studies Abstracts Online contains a geographical index, a subject index, and an author index, all referring to abstract number. The geographical index is at a region and country level. It refers to both abstract and page number, and for some may serve as a surrogate table of contents. The subject index is self-devised and is intended as a first and global indication of subjects. It follows roughly the main classes of the UDC, 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. Each category is further subdivided into a number of subcategories. Abstracts of items included under more than one country heading are indexed in the geographical index under each country. In the subject and author indexes they are indexed only once; the reference is always to the first time an entry appears. iv In addition, each issue of African Studies Abstracts Online contains a list of sources covered in that specific issue. The list of books abstracted provides complete bibliographical information on all edited works abstracted and indexed on a chapter-by-chapter basis. The list of periodicals abstracted provides information on title, corporate responsibility, publisher, place of publication and ISSN of all periodicals from which articles have been selected, as well as indicating which issues of the periodical in question have been covered. The list also provides information on current corporate responsibility, publisher and place of publication if these have changed since the journal was first published. A complete list of all periodicals regularly scanned for abstracting is included in the first issue of each volume. As always, comments or suggestions are very welcome. v GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number page INTERNATIONAL General 1 17 AFRICA General 2-57 18 NORTHEAST AFRICA Ethiopia 58-84 47 Horn of Africa 85 60 Somalia 86-89 61 Sudan 90-96 63 Eritrea 97-101 67 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 102-128 69 WEST AFRICA General 129-136 85 Benin 137-140 90 Burkina Faso 141-144 92 Ghana 145-158 94 Guinea 159 102 Guinea-Bissau 160 102 Ivory Coast 161-179 103 Liberia 180 113 Mali 181-185 114 Mauritania 186-190 117 Niger 191-193 120 Nigeria 194-245 121 Senegal 246-255 146 Sierra Leone 256-257 152 Togo 258-259 153 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number page WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 260-261 154 Angola 262 155 Cameroon 263-277 156 Central African Republic 278-280 164 Congo (Brazzaville) 281 166 Congo (Kinshasa) 282-296 166 EAST AFRICA General 297-302 175 Burundi 303-304 178 Kenya 305-314 179 Rwanda 315 184 Tanzania 316-326 184 Uganda 327-334 190 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 335-340 194 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Mozambique 341-344 197 Zambia 345-349 199 Zimbabwe 350-357 201 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 358-359 205 Botswana 360-362 206 Lesotho 363-364 208 Namibia 365-371 209 South Africa 372-403 213 ISLANDS General 404 229 Comoros 405 230 Madagascar 406-407 231 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 58, 82, 100, 381, 396 scientific research; African studies 33, 58, 79, 366 information science; press & communications
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