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Number 43, 2013 Number 43, 2013 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 43, 2013 Contents Editorial policy .......................................................................................................... iii Geographical index.................................................................................................... 1 Subject index ............................................................................................................. 3 Author index .............................................................................................................. 6 Periodicals abstracted in this issue .......................................................................... 11 Abstracts ................................................................................................................. 14 Abstracts produced by Katrien Polman, Angela Robson, Germa Seuren, Heleen Smits, 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 (subject to access restrictions) Another new feature is the inclusion of descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus for each entry. Each descriptor is linked to a search query in the online catalogue of 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://opc-ascl.oclc.org/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 dealing with only one work are normally not selected. This also applies to purely descriptive articles iii EDITORIAL POLICY 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 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 1-2 AFRICA General 3-33 NORTH AFRICA General 34 NORTHEAST AFRICA Eritrea 35 Ethiopia 36-42 Horn of Africa 43 Somalia 44 South Sudan 45-46 Sudan 47 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 48-71 WEST AFRICA General 72-73 Burkina Faso 74-76 Ghana 77-90 Ivory Coast 91-93 Liberia 94 Mali 95-99 Nigeria 100-137 Senegal 138-139 Sierra Leone 140-141 Togo 142-145 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 146 Cameroon 147-170 Congo (Brazzaville) 171 Congo (Kinshasa) 172-173 Gabon 174-175 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX EAST AFRICA General 176-178 Burundi 179-191 Kenya 192-201 Rwanda 202 Tanzania 203-210 Uganda 211-216 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 217 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 218-220 Mozambique 221 Zambia 222 Zimbabwe 223-228 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 229 Botswana 230 Namibia 231-236 South Africa 237-293 ISLANDS Comoros 294-296 Mauritius 297 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 275 scientific research; African studies 1, 14, 28, 31, 33, 70, 71, 184, 270 information science; press & communications 11, 12, 96, 205, 212, 217, 221, 257, 263 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 5, 13, 14, 37, 41, 54, 78, 87, 105, 107, 108, 114, 117, 124, 125, 126, 127, 156, 159, 234, 239, 242, 282 philosophy; world view; ideology 15, 18, 119 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 22, 34, 61, 72, 89, 102, 132, 136, 140, 168, 195, 197, 206, 219, 251, 266, 268, 274, 285, 289, 291 social organization & structure; group & class formation 73, 179, 213, 272, 276, 286, 296 minority groups; refugees 241, 243 women's studies 53, 54, 104, 105, 112, 163, 222, 287 rural & urban sociology 100, 157 migration; urbanization 2, 44, 225 demography; population policy; family planning 222 household & family 193 D. Politics general 9, 11, 23, 27, 43, 47, 49, 61, 63, 66, 119, 128, 148, 153, 155, 173, 195, 197, 218, 228, 257, 263, 279 3 SUBJECT INDEX domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 36, 45, 46, 51, 72, 82, 91, 94, 96, 97, 99, 104, 113, 117, 125, 126, 130, 138, 182, 190, 201, 205, 207, 211, 217, 227, 229, 233, 234, 240, 252, 253, 255, 258, 265, 268, 269, 270, 273, 277, 278, 281, 286, 297 foreign affairs; foreign policy 4, 65 international affairs; international organizations 20, 21, 30, 48, 58, 68, 176, 177, 212, 232, 267 E. Economics economic conditions; economic planning; infrastructure; energy 9, 21, 24, 57, 69, 115, 141, 143, 165, 166, 171, 172, 176, 177, 185, 188, 213, 220, 224, 228, 233, 238, 245, 254, 271, 280, 285, 292 foreign investment; development aid 19 finance; banking; monetary policy; public finance 141, 181, 183, 186, 189, 255, 296 labour; labour market; labour migration; trade unions 106, 224 agriculture; animal husbandry; fishery; hunting; forestry 81, 84, 86, 133, 134, 185, 226, 264, 280 handicraft; industry; mining; oil 121, 122, 165, 166 trade; transport; tourism 47, 109, 133, 162, 170, 188, 231, 266 industrial organization; cooperatives; management 101 F. Law general 8, 50, 52, 60, 66, 67, 75, 76, 95, 142, 158, 161, 196, 242, 249, 252, 283, 284, 290, 294 international law 7, 26, 52, 55, 59, 62, 76, 92, 146 customary law 196 G. Education/Socialization/Psychology education 150, 151, 237, 260 4 SUBJECT INDEX psychology; social psychology 131 H. Anthropology general 74, 103, 108, 111, 116, 155, 159, 230 I. Medical Care and Health Services/Nutrition health services; medicine; hospitals 2, 187, 191, 203, 215 psychiatry 136 food & nutrition 39 J. Rural and Urban
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