Workshop 1

Africanist Network

Convenors:

Dmitriy M. Bondarenko, Russian State University for the

Humanities

dbondar@hotmail.com, dmitri.bondarenko@inafr.ru

 

Cecilia Pennacini, University of Torino

cecilia.pennacini@unito.it

 

Peter Skalník, University of Pardubice

petr.skalnik@upce.cz

 

This regional network, proposed at the 6th EASA conference at

Cracow (see report in EASA Newsletter 29, p. 9) and launched

in Copenhagen in 2002 (session held at the Centre for African

Studies, University of Copenhagen), will meet in Vienna for the

second time. There will be a scientific part and an administrative

part.

The meeting will also discuss further programme of the network

between the conferences such as EASA Africanist seminars,

cooperation with national and other continental organisations of

Africanist anthropologists, publications of the network, etc.

 

Kalahari Revisionism, Vienna, and the “Indigenous Peoples“

Debate

Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh

A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk

 

Afrikanerdom under Threat: Contested Collective Identity

within the New Political Dispensation in South Africa

Hana Novotná, University of Hradec Králové

Hana.novotna@uhk.cz

 

“Because all we were born here, we want to stay together”:

Education, Politics, and Muslim-Christian Relations in

Contemporary Tanzania

Dmitriy M. Bondarenko, Russian State University for the Humanities

dbondar@hotmail.com; dmitri.bondarenko@inafr.ru

 

Mayi-Mayi: A Rebel Movement in Kivu (Democratic Republic of

Congo)

Luca Jourdan, University of Torino

jourdan@libero.it

 

The Rise of Vigilante Groups: Political Transcontinuities or Signs

of State Devolution?

Tilo Grätz, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale

graetz@eth.mpg.de

 

Chiefdom in Crisis: Unsuccessful Succession in Nanun, Ghana

Peter Skalník, University of Pardubice

petr.skalnik@upce.cz

 

Models of Cultural Responses to Population Growth in Sub-

Saharan Africa

Daria Khaltourina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

khaltourina@yahoo.com

 

Traces of the Past: Colonial Memories in Kubandwa Spirit

Possession (Great Lakes, Africa)

Cecilia Pennacini, University of Torino

cecilia.pennacini@unito.it