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
Peter Skalník,
University of Pardubice
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
Afrikanerdom under
Threat: Contested Collective Identity
within the New Political
Dispensation in South Africa
Hana Novotná,
University of Hradec Králové
“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
The Rise of Vigilante
Groups: Political Transcontinuities or Signs
of State Devolution?
Tilo Grätz, Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Chiefdom in Crisis:
Unsuccessful Succession in Nanun, Ghana
Peter Skalník,
University of Pardubice
Models of Cultural
Responses to Population Growth in Sub-
Saharan Africa
Daria Khaltourina, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Traces of the Past:
Colonial Memories in Kubandwa Spirit
Possession (Great Lakes,
Africa)
Cecilia Pennacini,
University of Torino