Dr. José(pha) van Santen
José C.M. van Santen was Senior Lecturer and Researcher, she retired in 2014. She did her PhD research (1986-1988) on processes of Islamisation in West Africa in general and Cameroon in particular. She has followed the ongoing processes of fundamentalism and its implications for the construction of gender. Her research in the NWO project ‘Islam in Africa, moving frontiers’, examines the way Muslims, both leaders and followers, are engaged in the re-construction of their identities in the context of dissimilar forms of globalisation and modernisation.
José van Santen pays special attention to the process of re-construction of youth identities. Recent publications concern issues about the moral discourse and the construction of Islamic identities in local, national and transnational perspectives. Due to the link between Islam and the ethnic identity of the cattle-keeping Islamic Fulani (Fulbe) in Cameroon, she has been intrigued by the relationships and/or clashes (often related to access to resources) between agriculturalists and cattle-keepers/nomads in relation to religion and political processes.
José van Santen was previously joint director of CNWS (PhD school of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies); scientific Director at the Centre of Environment and Development of the University of Dschang, antenne de Maroua, in Cameroon and she remains involved in issues concerning ‘Developmentalism’ and the Environment.
With her NWO research on ‘Islam in Africa, moving frontiers’ (2006-2009) she initiated and was part of the NWO programme ‘The future of the religious past’. She was a NIAS/KNAW-fellow (Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences) from 2011 till 2012.
She still is in daily contact with her area of studies and the inhabitants of North Cameroon.
Publications and Academic work José C.M. van Santen
2024
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society. in: Ethnography, 2024, Vol. 0(0) 1–20
2022
‘Sans mon foulard je me sens nue’: Les opportunités que les écoles ‘islamiques’ offrent aux jeunes femmes nord-camerounaises. Paper , Colloque annuel de la chaire Yves Oltramare
« Religion et politique dans le monde contemporain » Femmes de pouvoir religieux, Genève, IHEID, 24 – 25 octobre 2022
2021
Articulation of Reproduction: Parents, Daughters and Education in North Cameroonian Society. Paper for the Congres in honorary of Peter Geschiere, June, 2021, Amsterdam University.
2018
2018. Bookreview. Barendregt, Bart and Rivke Jaffe (eds.) 2014. Green consumption. The global rise of eco‐chic. London: Bloomsbury. 199 PP. ISBN: 978‐0‐85785‐501‐5. in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
2018. Redactioneel. Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies TVGN 21 (2) 107 – 112. (DOI: 10.5117/TVGN2018.2.SANT).
2018. La Nation passe par la femme. Boko Haram, discours islamique et genre. Une causerie. May. À l’initiative du café Le Local et en partenariat avec les Rencontres de la Coop. May.
2016
2016 Van Santen, J.C.M. Bookreview, Muslim societies in Africa: A historical anthropology by R. Loimeier. American Anthropologist 117, 4; 849-850.
2016. Boko Haram and female suicide bombers/ An ‘Islamic’ terrorist organisation and gender. Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies 19 (1): 83–106.
peer refereed article)
2015.
2015. ‘If we’d only know the logics of these Boko Haram attackers…’. Daily Life and Islamic Identities in a Region under Terror. Farewell Discours at Leiden University, June 5.
2015. Book Review. Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon: The Dii People and Norwegian Missionaries 1934-1960, Thomas Sundness Dronen. In: Journal of Religion in AfricaJ. Vol. 45, Fasc. 3/4 (2015), pp. 342-345 .
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26359017
2014
2014 “Fulani Identity, Citizenship and Islam in an International Context of Migration” dans Religion, ethnicity and transnational migration between West Africa and Europe. Stanislaw Grodz and Gina Gertrud Smith (eds.). Leiden: Brill. (June 2014)
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2013/14 ‘Do life histories surface as time goes by?’: Longitudinal anthropological research, time and feminist knowledge production’ , Women’s Studies International Forum,
Accessible on the net since August 28 , in 2014 in the Journal.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/02775395
http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0277539513001374
(article – peer refereed)
2013/14 ‘‘”Educating a Girl, Means Educating a whole Nation”, Gender Main-streaming, Development and Islamic Resurgence in North Cameroon’, The Journal of International Development, vol. 25/8 (fc).
Accessible in the net in 2013, and 2014 in the Journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.2950/abstract
(article – peer refereed)
2014 « La nation passe par les femmes » Education, genre et discours islamique au Cameroun. Séminaire Anthropologie des religiosités contemporaines au prisme des rapports de genre, 5 Février, Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF), 96 bd Raspail 75006 Paris.
2014 “A diversified people united?”, Fulani identity, Islam, Gender and International Migration. Paper for Conference Migration, Faith and Action. Shifting the Discourse. May 2014 ; The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Humanities Division, University of Oxford.
2013
2013 ‘“Should a Good Muslim Cover Her Face?” Pilgrimage, Veiling, and Fundamentalisms in Cameroon’ dans Veiling in Africa. Elisha Renne (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 137-160.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2012
2012 ‘The Mafa Dispersed: Migration, Citizenship and Access to land in Cameroon’ dans Le Cameroun Septentrional en Transition. Perspectives pluridisciplinaires. Alawadi Zelao et Bouba Hamman (eds.). Paris: Harmattan : 255-289.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2012 ‘The Tasbirwol (Prayer Beads) under Attack: How the Common Practice of Counting One’s Beads Reveals Its Secrets in the Muslim Community of North Cameroon’ dans Things: Material Religion and the Topography of Divine Spaces. Dick Houtman rt Birigt Meyer (eds.). New York: Fordham University Press: 180 – 198.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2012 ‘Soms zijn we geïrriteerd, soms lachen we erom’: gender als onbegrepen concept. LOVA Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie, 33, 3. :
(article – refereed)
2012 Recensie: What is the What. The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel. By Dave Eggers. 475 pp. McSweeney’s, 2006. NVAS (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrika Studies) Nieuwsbrief, maart 2012: 19- 21.
(article – refereed)
2012 ‘My daughter is no good at housework’: mothers, daughters, education and class in north Cameroon. Paper for the Conference Africa in transformation: Africa of individuals, Africa of generations. Laval University. Quebec, Canada, 2-4 May 2012. Workshop, by Marie Nathalie LeBlanc (UQAM, anthropology), Anne Calvès (Université de Montréal, sociology) and I, Muriel Gomez-Perez (Université Laval, history). (participation at the request of the organizers).
2012 ‘Fundamentalism and changing Religious Authority in Cameroon’. Paper for the Conference Aesthetics of religious Authority. Anthropological approaches. Free University September 11. At the request of the organizers (Thijl Sunier – VU)
2012 ‘”The girl with the brown eyes”: Longitudinal research and feminist knowledge production’, September 2012 paper for the workshop at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, for the workshop: The Anthropological Study of Time and Temporality.
2012 ‘”Are the Fulani nomads losing out?”: place, space, ‘belonging’ and ethnicity in Cameroon”, Paper for the Annual AAA (American Anthropological Association) Conference, Montreal, – 15-19 November 2011. Panel: Claiming Nature: ‘Race’, Ethnicity and the Politics of Belonging. Organizers: Marc A Boglioli and Allan Charles Dawson (Drew University, USA).
2011
2011 ‘Historical background of North Cameroon’ (in co-operation with Gerard Persoon). In Celebrating 20 years of Environmental Research and Education in Northern Cameroon. Eds. Hans H. Iongh, Gerard A. Persoon, Ralph Buij, JP Mvondo Awondo. Leiden/Maroua: CML/CEDC:
(book chapter)
2011 “’Real, fake or no tears at all’: Death, Gendered grief and God’s will in Islamic Fulbe society (North Cameroon)”, Itiwana Bulletin, Summer.
(article)
2011 “Contact, culturele eigenheid en Islam: variant op een ‘hot item’”, in CUL, Universiteits krant Universiteit van Amsterdam. Jaargang 18, nr 3/4: 12-16. http://issuu.com/tijdschriftcul/docs/cul18-4_controverse http://issuu.com/tijdschriftcul/docs/cul18-4_controverse
(article – refereed )
2011 ‘Time, gender and anthropology’. Paper for the Workshop Department Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University.
2011 ‘Contact, cultural identity and Islam in Cameroon and the Netherlands: variation on a “controversial issue”’. paper and lecture, presented at the A European workshop Religion and ethnicity between West Africa and Europe: A transnational feedback loop? Lublin, Poland. 6-8 June 2011. (on request of the organizers).
2011 ‘The Inner Conflict: Pilgrimage, Veiling, and Fundamentalisms in Cameroon’. Paper presented at the International LOVA Conference Gender and Conflict, Amsterdam 6-9th of July 2011.
2010
2010 ‘My veil does not go with my jeans’: Veiling, Fundamentalism, Education and Women’s Agency in North Cameroon ‘. Africa vol 80, nr.2. May: 275-299.
(article – peer refereed)
2010 “‘Without my veil I feel naked’: Veiling, politics and the Islamist discourse in North Cameroon”. In: Religion as a Social and Spiritual Form. Eds. M ter Borg and J.W.Henten. Fordham University Press: 194-208
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2010 ‘Bericht van de founding mother’. LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie, 31 (1), pp. 26-29.
(article)
2010 ‘Concluding remarks: LOVA International Conference On Ethnographies of Gender and Globalisation’. LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie, 31 (1), pp. 44-52.
(article)
2010 ‘Martin Klein on slavery and its sources’, NVAS (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrika Studies) Nieuwsbrief, maart 2010.
(article)
2010 ‘Mannen (in-wording) in een moderne wereld: mobiliteit, moraliteit en nationale identiteit in islamitisch Afrika. Paper and lecture for NWO Congress Future of the Religious Past, October 2010, Amsterdam.
2009
2009 “Landenrapport Kameroen, ‘Met Cordaid is er sprake van een dialoog!: Ils mettent la confiance au sein des activités’”. Onderdeel van Rapport Programmatisch Werken bij Cordaid. Ed. P.Hoebink, Radbout Universiteit Nijmegen, Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN),
(article – research report)
2009 ‘ “Ze hebben ons gevoel voor ‘eigenwaarde’ teruggegeven”. Ontwikkeling, Antropologie, en lokale context’, paper presented in panel: Vernieuwing in de museumwereld . Antropologische Beroepsvereniging) Conferentie, Oktober.
(co-organiser)
2009 ‘ ‘Quand on me marie pas, j’aime bien aller à l’université »: Discours islamique, éducation et les nouvelles opportunités pour les jeunes’. International Conférence Islamic Renewal in Africa Struggles over the Public Sphere and Development, Dakar, 24 and 25 June 2009
(organiser)
2009 ‘”Life histories pop up as time goes by” or “The girl with the brown eyes”: Longitudinal research in anthropology’, Paper for 7th Feminist Congress, University of Utrecht 4-7th of June 2009
2008
2008 (ed.) Development in Place: Perspectives and Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
(Edited book – refereed)
http://www.kilibro.com/en/book/preview/1511307/development-in-place
2008 ‘Development in Place: Perspectives and Challenges’ in Development in Place: Perspectives and Challenges, J.C.M. Van Santen (ed.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: 1 – 48
(book chapter – refereed)
2008 ‘Division of Labour, Production, Reproduction and the Household: A Continuing Debate’, in Idem: 96-133
(book chapter – refereed)
2008 ‘Giving a Voice to the Elephant’: The Intricate Relation between Wildlife, Local Populations and Global Actors in North Cameroon, in idem: 281-310.
(book chapter – refereed)
2008 ‘Use of Prayer Beads in North Cameroon’. Paper presented at PRAYER BEADS WORKSHOP, CNWS, 27th of March 2008
2008 ‘If they don’t marry us out we would like to go to University’, Islamic Private Schools and New masculinities in Cameroon. Paper presented at the Lova International Conference 3 and 4 July 2008, Etnographies of Gender and Globalization
2008 As honorary member of LOVA: ‘Summary, Striking Trends and Final Conclusion of Lova International Conference’ 3 and 4 July 2008, Etnographies of Gender and Globalization
2008 ‘”Why do our girls no longer want to get married”? Child marriage, Female youth culture, femininity in crisis and Islamism in North Cameroon’. Paper presented at the International Conference African Children in Focus: A Paradigm Shift in Methodology and Theory? 18 & 19 September 2008, Leiden, Netherlands
2008 ‘Het kleinschalige en het grootschalige project door het oog van de antropoloog: De waterput (DAC) en de HIV/AIDS bestrijding (Cordaid) in Kameroen’. Paper voor ABv studiedag (3 oktober 2008)
Kleinschalige ontwikkelingsprojecten en particuliere steun – een discussie over valkuilen en uitdagingen (co-organiser).
2007
2007 ‘If we will not be married out we will go to University’, Girls, agency and Islamic Private education’ , Paper to be presented at the National Anthropological Conference (ABv), November 2007, (accompanied by film)
(organizer panel and co-organiser Conference)
2007 ‘Real, fake or no tears at all’: Death, Gendered grief and God’s will in Islamic Fulbe society (North Cameroon), Paper presented at the Aegis Conference in the panel Gender and Death
(organiser panel)
2007 The tasbirwol (rosary) under attack: how the common practice of telling one’s beads reveals its secrets in the Muslim community of North Cameroon. Paper presented at the NWO Conference, July 2007.
(Accompanied by a film)
2007 Knowledge that came from Nigeria’: Islam, brotherhoods and ‘moving frontiers’ in Cameroon, paper presented at the Aegis Conference in the panel Islam in Africa, moving frontiers, July 2007 (accompanied by film)
(organiser panel)
2006
2006 ‘Lies, secrets and silences : the subject-object relation and the ‘unsaid’ in anthropological research’, in: Antropologie en Afro-Amerika als Passie en Professie. Opstellen aangeboden aan Wim Hoogbergen, ed. Kees Koonings. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing. pp. 181-209.
(book chapter – refereed)
2006 Religie – Politiek – Cultuur. Islamisering als persoonlijk beschavingsproces in Noord-Kameroen, in: Sub-Sahara Afrika. Perspectieven en Plaatsbepalingen, ed. Jan Jansen. Amsterdam: Aksant, Academic Publishers, pp. 121-153.
(book chapter – refereed)
2006 ‘I had eleven children, ten have died’. Child mortality, rites and childcare in North Cameroon’, in: Een handvol kolanoten. Antropologische opstellen aan Wouter van Beek. Eds. Geert Mommersteeg & Ton Robben. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, pp. 111-143.
(book chapter – refereed)
2006 ‘Maami Wata’s Kingdom underneath the water’: Perceptions of water in a hydrological and ecological changing context; The case of the Logone Floodplains in Cameroon. (in co-operation with Jan Willem Molenaar). Geographical Journal, vol 127, nr. 4, December, pp. 331-347.
(article – peer refereed)
2006 Rural Development: Themes and Reflections 2006, ed. José van Santen, Leiden.
(edited internal publication)
2006 ‘Internet ou le mirroir du monde: How youth in Senegal and Cameroon reshape their Muslim identity’, International Conference ‘Youth and the Global South: Religion, Politics and the Making of Youth in Africa, Asia and the Middle East’ October 13, 2006 to October 15, 2006, Dakar, Senegal.
2006 ‘Will I send my boy or my girl to school?’ NGO concepts of ‘gender’ , Islam and public space in North Cameroon’, Workshop’ Islam and the Modern State in Africa (and Elsewhere). Issues of Citizenship and the Place of Religion in the Public Spheré’, NWO FUTURE OF THE RELIOUS PAST CONFERENCE 26th-27th of June, Amsterdam.
2006 Discussant at the NIAS panel: ‘Gender and Violence’ 23d of January 2006.
2005
2005 Islam and Public Life in Africa, ISIM Review 15, Spring 2005.
(article – peer refereed)
2005 Arbeidsverdeling, productie, reproductie en het huishouden: een voortgaand debat, in: Rural Development: Themes and Reflections 2005, (ed) José van Santen, Leiden, pp. 5-35.
(book chapter)
2005 Een vrouw is slechter dan een man’, arbeidsverdeling in de agrarische samenleving van de Khroumerie (Tunesië), in: Rural Development: Themes and Reflections 2005. ed José van Santen, Leiden, pp. 36 – 63.
(book chapter)
2005 ‘Religion – Politics –Culture: Individual’s trajectories to Islamisation in Mokolo’(North Cameroon), in Sub-Sahar Afrika, Perspectieven en Plaatsbepalingen, ed. Jan Jansen. Dept. CA/OS, Universiteit Leiden. pp. 125-153
(book chapter – internal publication)
2005 ‘Women, Gender and Constitutions : Sub-Saharan Africa’, in : EWIC Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, 2 Volume II Family, Law and Politics .Leiden : Brill Publishers. ISBN 90 04 12818 2, pp. 84-90.
(article – peer refereed)
2005 Contact, culturele eigenheid en Islam: variant op een ‘hot item’, in Mensenstreken antropologisch tijdschrift , jrg. 7, zomer 2005, pp. 20-25.
(article – refereed)
2005 Islam and Public Life in Africa, AASR Bulletin 23, May 2005.
(article – refereed)
2005 Discussant at the AEGIS panel ’Islam, Globalisation and Gender in Africa’: London: 30/6 – 2/7 – 2005
2005 Discussant of forum ‘Globalisation and Gender’. Two yearly conference of ‘De Antropologen Beroepsvereniging (ABv)’ 3 and 4 November 2005.
2005 ‘Without my veil I feel naked’: Veiling, youth culture, schooling and Islamist discourse in North Cameroon’ Conference : Reasons of Faith: Religion in Modern Public Life, at WISER, University of Witwatersrand, 17th – 19th October 2005.
(accompanied by film)
2005 ‘Perceptions locales et humaines sur les environnements’. Centre of Environment Studies, 25th of June 2005.
2005 ‘Development, gender and Islamic societies’: an example from North Cameroon’, workshop Programme Negotiating Development: trans-local gendered spaces in Muslim societies, Bielefeld, 13.10.2005-15.10.2005. (specially invited by organizers)
2005 ‘Opkomend fundamentalisme of Islamisme in Afrika! Maar waar hebben we het dan eigenlijk over?’ IND-conference, Utrecht 4th of October 2005.
2004
2004 (In co-operation with E.Postel-Coster) Feminist Voices in Dutch Anthropology’, LOVA Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie. 25 e Jrg. Nr.01. pp.3-22.
(article – refereed)
2004 ‘Islamisation : Processus Politiques et Choix individuelles’. December 2004. University of Geneve.
2004 ‘Local interpretation of Ngo terminology in the Islamic fundamentalist discourse in North Cameroon’, AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS (AASR) WEST AFRICA REGIONAL CONFERENCE 4-8TH FEBRUARY 2004, Accra, Ghana.
2003
2003 ‘Règles d’accès au domaine foncier et occupation du sol dans un contexte de migration : le cas de Mafa Kilda, in: Savanes africaines : des espaces en mutation, des acteurs face à de nouveaux défis, eds. Jamin J.Y., Seiny Boukar L., Floret C. Actes du colloque, mai 2002, Garoua, Cameroun. Prasac, N’Djamena, Tchad – Cirad, Montpellier, France.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2003 ‘La nation passe par la femme’: Global influences and local interpretations in the Islamic fundamentalist discourse in North Cameroon’, Seminar Islam in Africa, of the African Study Centre (ASC) and Institute for Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). 20th of November 2004.
2003 ‘How can we love the elephants who destroy our crops, or the State
Representatives who never compensate us? Relations between wildlife, population, state and Ngo’s in North Cameroon’, IUAES Inter-Congress Florence July 04-13, 2003.
2003 ‘Vrouwen en de strijd om macht’, Lecture Studium Generale, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 17th of November 2003.
2003 ‘Why did anthropologists forget about defecation? The case of The Fulbe’, Lustrum Conference of the ‘Antropologische Beroepsvereniging’, 21st of November 2003.
(co-organiser)
2002
2002 (In co-operation with E.Postel-Coster) ‘Feminist Anthropology in the Netherlands: Autonomy and Integration’, in: History of Anthropology in The Netherlands 1770 – 2000, eds. Han Vermeulen & Jean Kommers. Nijmegen: NICOS; Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, pp. 867-893.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
‘Stories from North Cameroonian Society’, in: Making Waves, essays in honour of Joke Schrijvers, ed. Ellen Lammers. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, pp. 146-153.
(book chapter – refereed)
– ‘Islamization in North Cameroon: Political Processes and individual choices’, Anthropos, (Annual de l’Université de Ngaoundere en l’Université de Tromso), Vol VII Juillet, pp.70-99.
(article – peer refereed)
– ‘In-between-sons’, Mafa system of land, property and sustainable ‘land-use’ in and outside the Mandara Mountains, in: Fragile Eco-systems in the north of Cameroon: the need for an adaptive approach, eds. Madi Ali, Hans Bauer and Paul Loth. Yaounde Maroua/Leiden: CEDC/CML, pp. 212-235.
(book chapter)
2002 ‘Le Royaume sous l’eau de Maami Waata: In: Flooding and Functioning of an Eco-system: Report on Research needs for the Logone Plains. Ed. J.P.Mvondo. CEDC-IUCN (Projet Waza-Logone).
(article – refereed)
2002 ‘Minin arti warugo, min tawi ladde, min ayni nde, wodbe ngari timin nde’: Règles d’accès au foncier et occupation du sol dans un contexte de migration : le cas de Mafa Kilda’, Collogue Internationales : ‘Savanes Africaines, des espaces en mutation, des acteurs en face à de nouveaux défis’. Thème 2: Des espaces divers, ouverts sur l ‘exterieur et le changement. Garoua (Cameroun), 27th-31st of May. Organised in the framework of Prasac (Pôle régional de recherche appliquée au développement des Savanes d’Afrique centrale), in co-operation with CIRAD, IRD (France) Université Leyde (Pays Bas).
2002 ‘Le royaume sous l’eau de Maami Waata’, Seminar: Flooding and Functioning of an Eco-system: Research needs for the Logone Plains. 24 – 27th of January 2002 at CEDC, Maroua.
(co-organiser)
2001
2001 ‘Not just any street child: Universality’s and Particularities of Childhood in North Cameroonian society’, International Journal of Anthropology, April 2001, Vol 16, nr.2-3, pp. 38-53.
(article – peer reviewed)
2001 ‘Mafa Women and Migration: Historical Context and Recent Forms’, in cooperation with J. Schaafsma, in : Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, eds. J. Knorr & B. Meier. New York : St. Martin´s Press, pp. 21-63.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
2001 In co-operation with Madi Ali, Wassouni, Francis Tarla: ‘L’étude socio-économique dans les neuf périmètres irrigués de la zone d’intervention du Programme de Développement Rural Participatif du Logone et Chari (PDRP- L&C) (75 pp). Ed.CEDC/ Union Europeéne.
(research – report)
2001 In co-operation with Madi Ali and Wassouni: ‘Les grandes problematiques en
rapport avec les questions frontalières’ (50pp) and ‘Diagnostic des problématiques des frontalières’ (51 p p). Ed.CEDC/Ministère des Travaux publique – Cameroun)
(research report)
2000
2000 « Garder du bétail, c’est aussi du travail »: des relations entre pasteurs fulBe et agriculteurs du Centre du Bénin et du Nord-Cameroun’, in : L’ethnicité peule dans des contextes nouveaux, eds. G.Schlee and Y.Diallo. Paris: Karthala, pp. 129-160.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
‘Gender and the Debates on Ethnicity in Africanist Anthropology: Inclusion in the Third Milennium?’, in:. The anthropology of Africa. Challenges for the 21st century. ed. P.N.Nkwi ICASSRT Monograph 2, February 2000. New York/Dakar: Werner Grenn Found & Unesco, pp. 248-265.
(book chapter – refereed)
2000 ‘Boekbespreking van Aad Zuiderwijk’s ‘Farming gently Farming fast. Migration, incorporation and agricultural change in the Mandara mountains of Northern Cameroon’, NVAS Nieuwsbrief.
(article)
2000 ‘Boekbespreking van Catherine Noterman’s “Verhalen in veelvoud. Vrouwen en Polygamie in Kameroen’, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies .
(article – refereed)
2000 ‘Bookreview of Aad Zuiderwijk’s ‘Farming gently Farming fast. Migration, incorporation and agricultural change in the Mandara mountains of Northern Cameroon’, Mega-Tchad Bulletin (Paris) 99/1&2.
(article)
2000 ‘Boekbespreking van Catherine Noterman’s “Verhalen in veelvoud. Vrouwen en Polygamie in Kameroen’, NVAS Nieuwsbrief. Augustus l999.
(article)
2000 ‘Boekbespreking van Azza M. Karam’s “Women, Islamisms and the State, Contemporary Feminisms in Egypt”, New York: MacMillan Press Ltd. 1998, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, april l999.
(article – refereed)
2000 ‘In-between-sons’ Mafa system of land, property and sustainable ‘land-use’ in and outside the Mandara Mountains’, conference ‘Fragile Eco-systems in the north of Cameroon: the need for an adaptive approach. ‘November 13-16. CEDC, Maroua, Cameroon.
2000 ‘J’avais onze enfants, dix sont morts’. Mortalité enfantine, rites et soinsd’enfants en société Mafa et Peul au Cameroun du Nord’, International Conference ‘Rites and Child care, Interdisciplinary approaches to childhood, organised by CNRS Research Group on the Anthropology of Childhood. 4-7 October 2000. Paris.
2000 ‘Not just any street child: Universality’s and Particularities of Childhood in Cameroonian society’, IUAES Inter-Congress BEIJNG July 24-28, 2000. Scientific Session: Children and childhood in our Contemporary Metropolitan Ethnic Cultures.
2000 ‘The discussion on the subject-object relation and the ‘unsaid’ in anthropological research’, the Socrates Staff/Postgraduate Workshop-. Monday June 19/Tuesday, June, 20 2000.
1999
1999 « Se faire pleurer comme une Femme », la signification symbolique du taureau et l’introduction récente de la vache chez les Mafa (Nord-Cameroun)’, in cooperation with J.Schaafsma, in: L’homme et l’animal dans le bassin du Lac Tchad,. eds. C. Baroin et J. Boutrais. Paris: ORSTOM editions, pp. 427-447.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
1999 ‘Fundamentalismen: discourses over mannelijkheid en vrouwelijkheid’, in cooperation with Karin Willemse, LOVA, Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie, jaargang 20, nr.1
(article – refereed)
‘”Wil je mij ook intervieuwen, want ik weet zoveel”. Hoe de onderzochten zich van een plaats in mijn proefschrift verzekerden’, LOVA, Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie, Jaargang l9, nr.2/3, pp. 15-24.
(article)
1999 ‘Femininity, Masculinity, and the discourse on Fundamentalism. The case of North Cameroon’, Conference on Transformation processes and Islam in Africa. Leiden 15 October l999.
(co-organiser)
1999 ‘Gender and the Debates on Ethnicity in Africanist Anthropology: Inclusion in the Third Milennium?’ , Pan African Association of Anthropology (Theme “Anthropology of Africa and the Challenges of the Third Millennium”. August 30th – September 2nd, l999. Yaounde, Cameroon.
1999 ‘Introduction sur le choix du thème Les Enfants dans le Bassin du MEGA_TCHAD’, Colloque du réseau Mega-Tchad, Leiden (CNWS)- Utrecht (CERES) 9-11 Juin l999.
(organiser)
1999 ‘Fundamentalismen’: discourses over mannelijkheid en vrouwelijkheid in Noord Kameroen’, LOVA Studiedag, Leiden – May l999
(co-organiser)
1999 ‘They will be pulled into hell with a rope around their balls’. Femininity, masculinity and the Islamic fundamentalist wave in North Cameroon’, NOSTER/NGG-Conference 14-15th of May l999 (Theologische Faculteit Tilburg).
1999 ‘Women’s organisation and network facilities in North Cameroon: division along religious lines’, Workshop: ‘Civil Society and Women’s Organisation and Networking’. Februari l999, Universitat Bielefeld. Forshungsschwerpunkt Entwicklungssoziologie, Bielefeld, Duitsland.
1998
1998 ‘Islam, Gender and Urbanisation among the Mafa of north Cameroon: the differing Commitment to ‘home’ among Muslims and non-Muslims’, Africa 68 (3), pp. 403-424.
(article – peer refereed)
“Islamisation and Changes in Social Arrangements among the Mafa of North Cameroon”. in: Negotiation and Social Space, eds. C.Risseeuw and R. Palriwala. New Delhi/London: Sage Publications, pp.324-345.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
1998 ‘Wil je mij ook interviewen want ik weet zoveel; hoe de onderzochten zich van een plaats in mijn proefschrift verzekerden’, Congres 100 jaar Antropologie in Nederland, Workshop: Invloed van ‘onderzochten’ op onderzoek.
1998- “Feministische Antropologie: De twee sporen van eigenheid en samenwerking”. Congres 100 Jaar Culturele Antropologie in Nederland, Workshop: Geschiedenis van de Culturele Antropologie.
1997
1997 ‘Regional Balance and National Integration: A historical overview of Mafa Integration in National Politics”. In: Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon. Lessons learned and the uncertain future, eds. Paul Nkwi and Francis Nyamjoh. Yaoundé: ICASSRT Monograph 1, pp.242 -260.
(book chapter – refereed)
1997 ‘Mafa women and migration: a total change of identity’, Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives. Seminar on Women and Migration, organised by Münster. Institut für Ethnologie. (October). in cooperation with J.Schaafsma.
1997 ‘Taureau sacrale et vache profane, la place de la vache chez les Mafa’, colloque: Les animaux dans le bassin Méga Tchad. org. J.Boutrais and C.Baroin. ORSTOM: Orléans. (October).
1997 ‘If we Islamise men do not have any influence any more, Gender and ethnic boundaries in a North Cameroonian society’, seminar: Identity in Africa. Leiden: Research School CNWS.(May).
1997 ‘Mafa women, Islamisation and Property’, seminar on ‘Colonial and postcolonial legalities of land and property, London: London University College (June)
1996
1996 ‘If you pray the Muslim community takes care of you’. Changes in social arrangements within Mafa society after Islamisation’, in: Proceedings of the Conference on Gender and Kinship in Sub-Saharan Africa & South Asia. Nairobi – Kenya, Univ.of Nairobi, Dept. of Sociology, pp. 255-267.
(book chapter)
1995
1995 ‘The spread of Islam in West Africa and women: their changing position in a North Cameroonian town’, in: Islam and State. ed.K.v.Dijk and A.M.de Groot. Leiden: CNWS publications, pp. 179-204.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
‘We attend but no longer dance: Changes in Mafa funeral practices due to Islamization’, in: Mort et Rites Funéraires dans le Bassin du Lac Tchad. ed. C.Baroin, D.Barreteau et Ch.von Graffenried. Paris: ORSTOM éditions, pp. 161-187.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
1995 ‘Des groupes Foulbe au Bénin et Cameroun et leurs relations avec leurs voisins: a comparaison’, seminar on ‘Les dynamiques frontières’ , Bielefeld, Germany 9-10 June 1995.
1995 ‘Regional balance and national integration in Cameroon: the case of the Mafa: an imbalance along religious lines’, conference on Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon; lessons learnt and the future. 13-18 October l995, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
1994
1994 ‘Etniciteit en Gender: Een verkenning in de Afrikanistiek’, in cooperation with Kees Schilder, Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies, april l994, pp.123-138.
(article – peer refereed)
‘They leave their jars behind, proefschriftfragmenten’, Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies, April l994. pp. 156-161.
(article – refereed)
‘Over het bestaansrecht van de feministische antropologie’, Lova Nieuwsbrief Jrg 15, nr 2 , pp. 13-19.
(article – refereed)
1994 ‘Islamization in North Cameroon: political processes and individual choices’, International Symposium on ‘Conversion’, 13-15 June, l994, University of Amsterdam. (co-organiser)
1994 ‘Islamization and urbanisation among the Mafa; different commitments to the village’, workshop: The urban-rural connection; different trajectories, different moralities. Workshop at the Annual African Studies Association, 3-5 November, Toronto, Canada.
1994 ‘Division of labour, production, reproduction and the household, an ongoing debate’, annual seminar of the workshop ‘Gender Studies’ of the European Sociological Association, 9-10 June l995, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
1993
1993 Autonomie Anders: Mogelijkheden en beperkingen van een concept’, ed. J.C.M. van Santen. Leiden: Vena Publications.
(edited volume – refereed)
1993 ‘Inleiding’, in: Autonomie Anders: Mogelijkheden en beperkingen van een concept’, ed. J.C.M. van Santen. Leiden: VENA publications.
(book chapter – refereed)
1993 ‘Islamisering en Economische verandering. De toepasbaarheid van het autonomie concept voor een antropologische analyse’, in: Autonomie Anders: Mogelijkheden en beperkingen van een concept’, ed. J.C.M. van Santen Leiden: VENA publications, pp. 139 – 166.
(book chapter – refereed)
1993 They Leave their Jars Behind. The Conversion of Mafa Women to Islam. Leiden:VENA publications, 400 pp.
(book)
1993 ‘Dot, Commerce et Contrebande: Strategies d’accumulation chez les femmes “islamisées” de Mokolo’, in: Itinéraire d’accumulation au Cameroun. eds. P.l..Geschiere en P.Konings. Paris: Karthala, pp. 301-335.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
l993 ‘If you pray the Muslim Community takes care of you’. Changes in social Arrangements within Mafa society after Islamisation’, conference ‘Changing Kinship and Gender relations’. Nairobi, Kenya, February l993. (
co-organiser)
1992
1992 ‚Der Autonomieansatz in der Niederlandischen Entwicklungsdiskussion – Veranderungen der Frauenokonomie bei den Mafa (Nord Kamerun) im Zuge der Islamisierung’, Peripherie, nr.47/48, pp. 172 – 190.
(article – peer refereed)
1991
1991 ‘Over de grenzen: het perspectief van Vrouwen’, in: Het Kweekbed Ontkiemd, ed. H.Claessen; M.v.d. Engel en D.Plantenga. Leiden: Ca/SNWS – VENA, pp. 223 – 238
(book chapter – refereed)
1991 ‘Twins and the meaning of the number two in Mafa society’, WORLD AND I. Washington: Washington Times Corporation.
(article – refereed)
1991 ‘Ode aan Afrika, boekbespreking van Mark Hudson’ Onder de Vrouwen van Dulaba, Intermediair, jrg.27 nr.28.
(article – refereed)
1991 Vertaling van het artikel : ‘Afrika en Europa: over de grenzen van geografische scheidingen’ van Roch L. Mongbo, in: Veranderingen in Europa, visies uit het Zuiden, ed. Martin van Berker e.a., Amsterdam: Evert Vermeer Stichting.
(article)
1991 ‘Economic changes of Mafa women (North Cameroon) due to Islamisation and the autonomy debate in the Dutch development world’, conference of the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Soziologie Sektionssitzung Entwicklungssoziologie und Sozialanthropologie’ Freie Universität Berlin, (Free University Berlin, Germany)
1990
1990 ‘Antropologie en Feminisme: kritiek op een dualistische ordening’, in: De Crisis voorbij: persoonlijke visies op vernieuwing in de antropologie, eds.B.Fontaine, P.KLoos en J.Schrijvers. Leiden: D.S.W.O.Press, pp. 41-57.
(book chapter – peer refereed)
1990 ‘The State in Africa and women: changing economic occupations of Mafa Women due to Islamisation’, the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, York, England.
(organiser of workshop)
1990 ‘Mafa Women in the process of Islamisation’, the Sixth Satterthwaithe Colloquium on African Ritual and Religion, University of Oxford, Satterthwaithe, England.
1989
1989 ‘Children and Anthropological Fieldwork’, Focaal nr. 10, pp.61-71
(article – peer refereed )
1989 ‘Twins, the number two and women’, the Fifth Satterthwaite Colloquim Colloquium on African Ritual and Religion , University of Oxford, Satterthwaite, England.
1989 ‘Women, State and Islam in North Cameroon’, International Conference on State and Islam, Leiden University
1986
1986 ‘Feministische Antropologie in Nederland Introductie’, Antropologische Verkenningen, Jaargang 5, nr.2. Guest editor of two volumes in cooperation with A. Aalten, A.Moors and J.Schrijvers.
(editor of edited volume – peer refereed)
1986 ‘Antropologie, feminisme en ideologie’, Antropologische Verkenningen, Jaargang 5, nr. 2. pp. 50-60
(article – peer refereed).
1986 ‘Arbeidsverdeling en Voorstellingswereld in de Khroumerie’, in: Vruchtbaar Onderzoek, essays ter ere van Douwe Jongmans, eds. W. Hoogbergen en M. de Theye. Utrecht: ICAU-mededelingen, nr. 24, pp. 166-188.
(book chapter – refereed)
1986 ‘Vrouw zijn in de Islam’ , Kruispunt jaargang 22, nr. 8-9.
(Article – refereed)
1985
1985 Basisartikel Feministische Antropologie (twee delen), in cooperation with Thea Campagne, Nijmegen: Katholieke Universiteit,220 pp.
(book)
1984
1984 ‘Het vrouwelijke als categorie in de dychotomische classificatie’, De Pottekijker Vol. 10, pp. 17-45.
(article – peer refereed)
1982
1982 ‘De relatie tussen feminisme en terrorisme’, LOVA.-Nieuwsbrief , Vol. 3 No. 1
(article – refereed)
1980
1980 ‘De theorie van Shirley en Edwin Ardener’, in: LOVA.-Nieuwsbrief Vol.1, No. 3, pp. 4-25.
(article – refereed)
1979
1979 Rapport: ‘Vrouwenstudies binnen de Culturele Antropologie en Niet Westerse Sociologie in Nederland’. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Films:
2005 Taking of the veil: How in one gesture the politics of the laic Cameroonian State is represented (accompanied paper: ‘Without my veil I feel naked’: Veiling, youth culture, schooling and Islamist discourse in North Cameroon’ presented at the Conference : Reasons of Faith: Religion in Modern Public Life, at WISER, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
2007 The Tasbirwol, rosary, under attack (Accompanied the paper: The tasbirwol (rosary) under attack: how the common practice of telling one’s beads reveals its secrets in the Muslim community of North Cameroon and presented at the NWO Conference, July 2007).
2007 ‘Knowledge that came from Nigeria’: Islam, brotherhoods and ‘moving frontiers’ in Cameroon. (Accompanied the paper: ‘Knowledge that came from Nigeria’: Islam, brotherhoods and ‘moving frontiers’ in Cameroon’, paper presented at the Aegis Conference in the panel Islam in Africa, Moving Frontiers, July 2007).
2012 ‘Saving the black-necked crane in the Phobjika Valley of Bhutan’. Film for methodology course at Leiden Univerity (30 minutes).
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