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updated: November 2009

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van Binsbergen, W.M.J., in press, ‘Islam as a constitutive factor in African ‘‘traditional’’ religion’, in: Breedveld, A., van Santen, J., & van Binsbergen, W.M.J., eds., Islam and transformations in Africa YES

van Binsbergen, W.M.J., 2006, ‘Further steps towards an aggregative diachronic approach to world mythology, starting from the African continent’, paper read at the International Conference on Comparative Mythology, organized by Peking University (Research Institute of Sanskrit Manuscripts & Buddhist Literature) and the Mythology Project, Asia Center, Harvard University (Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies), May 10-14, 2006, at Peking University, Beijing, China; in press in: Duan Qing & M. Witzel, eds., Proceedings of the International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Beijing 2006 ; also at: http://www.shikanda.net/ancient_models/Further%20steps%20def.pdf YES

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press, ‘African divination across time and space: The typology, intercontinental connections, prehistory, and intercultural epistemology of sub-Saharan mantics’, in press in: Walter E.A. van Beek & Philip Peek, eds., Realities re-viewed/ revealed: Divination in sub-Saharan Africa, based on the 2005 Leiden international conference; more extensive version at: http://shikanda.net/ancient_models/divination_space_time_2008.pdf

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press [2010], ‘Before the Pre-Socratics: The evidence of a common elemental transformational cycle underlying Asian, African and European cosmologies since Neolithic times’, Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie, XXIV, 1-2 (2010); for an earlier version, see: http://shikanda.net/topicalities/paper_Japan_final.pdf

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press, 'Reconsidering spiked wheel traps: An exercise in global cultural distribution analysis', submitted to: Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde / International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics / Revue Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Linguistique  

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press, [ 2010 ] ‘Expressions of traditional wisdom: What Africa can teach the world today’, in Swinne, J. ed., Expressions of Tradition Wisdom: Proceedings of a conference held at Brussels, September 2007, Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outremer; text at: http://shikanda.net/topicalities/wisdom_WVB_short.pdf

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., ‘Existential dilemmas of a North Atlantic anthropologist in the production of relevant Africanist knowledge’, contribution for: Adebayo Olukoshi & Francis Nyamnjo, eds., The Postcolonial Turn, Dakar: CODESRIA

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press, ‘Building with skulls, and stealing the moon: Aspects of the continuity of African and Eurasian mythologies: As seen from the perspective of the Nkoya people of Zambia, South Central Africa’, in: Venbrux, Eric, & van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., 2010, eds., Studies in Comparative Mythology, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers.

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press, ‘The continuity of African and Eurasian mythologies: As seen from the perspective of the Nkoya people of Zambia, South Central Africa’, in: van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., & Venbrux, Eric, eds., New Perspectives on Myth: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Leiden: Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies (PIP-TraCS)

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press [ 2010 ], ‘The continued relevance of Martin Bernal’s Black Athena thesis: Yes and No’, Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie, XXIII, 1-2 (2009)  ; provisional text at: http://shikanda.net/topicalities/Black_Athena_YES_AND_NO.pdf

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., & Venbrux, Eric, in press [2010], Introduction: New perspectives on myth’, in: van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., & Venbrux, Eric, in press [2010], eds., New Perspectives on Myth: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Leiden: Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies; provisional text at: http://shikanda.net/topicalities/Anthropos_IACM.pdf

Venbrux, Eric, & van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., ‘Introduction: Themes and dilemmas in the modern study of comparative mythology’, in: Venbrux, Eric, & van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in preparation [2010], eds., Studies in Comparative Mythology, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers.

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., in press, ‘Africa’s splendid social technology of reconciliation, and the political sociology of its under-utilisation at the national and international level’, in: Tagou, C., ed., The Problematic of Peace and Development in Africa: Balance Sheet and New Stakes in the 3rd Millennium; text at: http://shikanda.net/topicalities/paper_2009_Yaounde.pdf

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., forthcoming, Towards the prehistory of African divination', article submitted to Current Anthropology ; an extract from a larger text available at: http://shikanda.net/ancient_models/divination_space_time_2008.pdf

 

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