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Affiliation African Studies Centre=Afrika Studiecentrum, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Research Interests Presently working on the theory and method of research on cultural globalisation especially in connection with virtuality, Information and Communication Technology, ethnicity and religion. Another of his projects, on 'Africa.s Contribution to Global Systems of Knowledge: An Epistemology for African Studies in the Twenty-First Century'.

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Publications * "Expressions of traditional wisdom from Africa and beyond: an exploration in intercultural epistemology" In: Classes des Sciences morales et politiques, Mémoire in-8, Nouvelle Série, vol. 53, fasc. 4 Bruxelles: Academie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-mer, 2009. "Rupture and fusion in the approach to myth: situating myth analysis between philosophy, poetics and long-range historical reconstruction" In: Religion Compass, vol. 3 no. 1, pp. 1-34, 2009. "Expressions of traditional wisdom: what Africa can teach the world today" In: Bulletin des Séances de l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, pp. 281-305, 2009. "The continuity of African and Eurasian mythologies: general theoretical models, and detailed comparative discussion of the case of Nkoya mythology from Zambia, South Central Africa" In: New perspectives on myth: proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (the Netherlands), 19-21 August, 2008, Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies, Haarlem, pp. 143-223, 2010. "Preface" and "Introduction" (with E. Venbrux) In: New perspectives on myth: proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (the Netherlands), 19-21 August, 2008, Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies, Haarlem, pp. 17-21, 2010. With C. Tagou "Africa's splendid social technology of reconciliation, and the political sociology of its under-utilisation at the national and international level'" In: The Dynamics of conflict, peace and development in African societies: from local to international, Yaoundé, Presses des Universités Protestantes d'Afrique, pp. 63-120, 2010. "'An incomprehensible miracle' - Central African clerical intellectualism versus African historic religion: A close reading of Valentin Mudimbe's Tales of Faith" In: Journal of African cultural studies, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 11-65, 2006. With P. L. Geschiere Commodification. Things, Agency, and Identities (The Social Life of Things Revisted). Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005. "Aspects of democracy and democratization in Zambia and Botswana" In: T. Young (ed.) Readings in African Politics, London: International Africa Institute in cooperation with Indiana University Press and James Currey, pp. 202-214, 2004. "Can ICT belong in Africa, or is it owned by the North Atlantic Region?" In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen ; R.A. van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture, Leiden: Brill, pp. 107-146, 2004. "Challenges for the sociology of religion in the African context: prospects for the next 50 years" In: Social compass, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 85-98, 2004. Tears of Rain. Ethnicity and History in Central Western Zambia. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992, 2000. Richard Fardon, Wim van Binsbergen and Rijk van Dijk (eds.) Modernity on a Shoestring. Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond. London / Leiden: EIDOS / ASC / CAS, 1999. "Mary's room: A case study on becoming a consumer in Francistown, Botswana." In: R. Fardon et al. (eds.) Modernity on a Shoestring. Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond, pp 179-206, London / Leiden: EIDOS / ASC / CAS, 1999.

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