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David Zeitlyn Publications
Recent work
Older work
(Co-authors marked with * were research assistants employed by projects directed by DZ).
Editorship
Anthropological Index Online (Royal Anthropological Institute) from 1995
Monographs
Words and Processes In Mambila Kinship: the Theoretical Importance of the Complexity of Everyday Life,
Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), Lanham, Maryland. 0739108018 2005
Reading in the Modern World: Anthropological Perspectives on Writing and the Virtual World
(CSAC Monographs Online 17) 2001
<http://csac.anthropology.ac.uk/CSACMonog/RRRweb/>
with N. Mial & C. Mbe (100% of editing, and 100% of one of the three studies under my Mambila name, David Huømnuar), Trois Études sur les Mambila de Somié, Cameroun
, Groupe de Recherches sur lAfrique Francophone, Boston, Mass., 2000
with Mike Fischer Experience Rich Anthropology. Resource Guide and Sampler CD for teachers and Students
. Canterbury: CSAC, 1999
with J. Bex* & M. David*, Knowledge Lost in Information,
Oxford and London: Office for Humanities Communication, 1999
Sua in Somié: Mambila Traditional Religion,
Collectanea Instituti Anthropos v. 41. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 1994
Edited collections - jointly with Dr Ian Fowler
1) A special issue of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
(JASO
) 23(1), October 1996
2) Half of Paideuma
(the Journal of the Frobenius Institute) 41 1995
3) African Crossroads: Intersections between history and anthropology in Cameroon 1996. Berghahn Books, Oxford
Guest Editor (with Jane Bex*)
Special issue of Education for Information
June 1999 17 (2) containing papers from the Libraries Without Number 2 Conference September 1998.
Special issue of Education for Information
Winter 1997 15(4) containing papers from the Libraries Without Number Conference March 1997.
Articles: Single-authored
Visual anthropology and properties of the medium (or The visual anthropologist in the digital library: From filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes) . 2006. Visual Anthropology Review
21
, 3-13.
The documentary impulse: archives in the bush. 2005. History in Africa
32
:
415-434
Introduction. Pp 4-8 2005. In Joseph Chila and Samuel Finlak. Two Portrait Photographers in Cameroon
(ed.) I. Swenson. London: Peer. isbn 0953977269
The Gift of the Gab: Anthropology and Conversation Analysis. 2004. Anthropos
99: 452-468.
The Experience Rich Anthropology project and the Computer Simulation of Mambila Divination. 2004. In Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples: Oral, written expressions and new technologies (CD)
(ed.) L. Pourchez. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 92-3-103939-3
Lessons learnt from the Experience Rich Anthropology Project. 2004. pp 85-96 in Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education. Volume 2, Learning Fields
(eds) D. Dracklé & I.R. Edgar. Oxford: Berghahn. ISBN 1-57181-564-3
The Talk Goes Outside. 2003 Africa
73(4): 606-22
Gift economies in the development of open source software: anthropological reflections. 2003 Research Policy
32
, 12871291. opensource.mit.edu/papers/rp-zeitlyn.pdf (issn 0048-7333)
A Computer Simulation of Mambila Divination. 2002 In Practitioners, Practices and Patients. New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
(eds) P.A. Baker & G. Carr. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Lessons learnt from the Experience Rich Anthropology Project 2002 Assignation
19
, 28-33. (issn 0265-2587)
Finding Meaning in the Text: the Process of Interpretation in Text-Based Divination 2001 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
7
(2): 225-40
Tangling with text, hedging with hegemony: spaces, genders and things in African ethnography 2001 Reviews in Anthropology
30
: 55-64
Mambila avatars and the ancestor cult: Problems of History and Interpretation1999a [based on a paper presented at the Satterthwaite colloquium on African Religion, 20-23 April 1991] Included in the Experience Rich Anthropology
Project: http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Ancestors/dzanc_1.html
An Anthropologist at the Funeral 1999b Included in the Experience Rich Anthropology
Project: http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Ancestors/fieldnotes/background.html
Les mambila 1997 pp 231-4 in Arts du Nigeria: Collection du Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
(eds.) J.-P. Barbier, F. Willett, & E. Eyo, Paris: Réunion des Musée Nationeaux
Public Transports of Delight: Review essay discussing Bruno Latour Aramis or the love of technology 1997 Journal of Material Culture
2
(1): 119-22
Eldridge Mohammadou on Tikar Origins 1996 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
26
(1): 87-98
Regarding machines for the suppression of time. 1996 Online resource http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/it-va/it.html
Divination as Dialogue: the Negotiation of Meaning with Random Responses 1995 pp 189-205 in Social Intelligence and Interaction
(ed.) E.N. Goody Cambridge: CUP
Problems of Interpretation: Mambila Figurines and Masquerades 1994 African Arts
27
(4): 199-224
Reconstructing Kinship or the Pragmatics of Kin Talk 1993, Man (n.s.)
28
(2): 199-224 An electronic version of part of this article that includes digitised sound recordings has been available since 1994 (as a pioneering experiment) on the World Wide Web at http://bodley.ox.ac.uk/isca/mambila/mambila.html
Spiders In and Out of Court. Styles of Spider Divination in their Sociological Contexts 1993, Africa
63
(2): 219-40
Ethnography as Fiction - or the Lies we Tell One Another 1993 International Journal of Moral and Social Studies
8
(2): 175-8
Ways of Speaking, Ways of Knowing (Conference report) 1992 Anthropology Today
8
(6): 25
Un Fragment de lHistoire des Mambilas: un Texte du Duabang 1992 Journal des Africanistes
62
(1): 135-50
Do Mambila Cockerels Lay Eggs? Reflections on Knowledge and Belief 1991 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
22
(1): 64-9
Professor Garfinkel visits the Soothsayers: Mambila Divination and ethnomethodology, 1990, Man (n.s.)
25
(4): 654-66
Mambila Bibliography The Nigerian Field
1989 54
: 65-76
Mambila Divination Cambridge Anthropology
1987 12
(1): 21-51
Contradictions and Alternative Logics 1983 Man (n.s.)
18
: 788-9
Articles: Co-authored
Anne Elise Keane and David Zeitlyn (30% contribution), Food and ethinncity in Mayo Darlé, Cameroon forthcoming Anthropos
Frances Larson, Alison Petch and David Zeitlyn (50% contribution), Social networks and the creation of the Pitt Rivers Museum forthcoming Journal of Material Culture
With Fran Barone* (60% contribution), Small ads as first steps to Internet business: A preliminary survey of Cameroon's commercial Internet usage 2004First Monday
9
(9) <http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/zeitlyn/index.html> ISSN 1396-0466
.
Charlotte A. Mulcare, Michael E. Weale, Abigail L . Jones, Bruce Connell, David Zeitlyn (15% contribution field data and discussion of ethnicity), Ayele Tarekegn, Dallas M. Swallow, Neil Bradman and Mark G. Thomas
The T allele of a SNP located 13.9 kb upstream of the lactase gene (LCT
) (C-13.9kbT
) does not predict or cause the lactase persistence phenotype in Africans 2004 American Journal of Human Genetics
. Jun;74(6):1102-10.
Michael E. Weale, Tina Shah, Abigail L. Jones, John Greenhalgh, James F. Wilson, Pagbajabyn Nymadawa, David Zeitlyn (10% contribution field data), Bruce A. Connell, Neil Bradman, and Mark G. Thomas: Rare Deep-Rooting Y Chromosome Lineages in Humans: Lessons for Phylogeography Genetics
2003 (165
) 229-234 http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/1/229?etoc (ISSN
0016-6731)
with B. Connell (50% contribution), Ethnogenesis and Fractal History on the African Frontier: Mambila-Njerep-Mandulu 2003 Journal of African History
44
(1): 117-38
With M.D. Fischer (50% contribution). Ritual, ideation and performance: A Case Study of Multimedia in Anthropological Research - the Mambila Nggwun Ritual (paper presented to the 16th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), April 2-5, 2002). In Cybernetics and Systems 2002
(ed.) R. Trappl. Vienna, Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.
with B. Connell (30% contribution), Njerep: A Postcard from the Edge 2000 Studies in African Linguistics
29
(1): 95-125
with J. Bagg* (50% contribution) Mambila Demography from Archival Sources 2000 History in Africa
27
: 423-36 ISSN 0361-5413
with J. Bex* & M. David* Access Denied: The Politics of New Communications Media 1998 Telematics and Informatics
15
(3): 219-30
with J. Bex* & M. David* Cultural and Technical Networks: A Qualitative Approach 1997 Education for Information
15
(4): 351-61
with M. David* What are they doing? Dilemmas in Analyzing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life
1996 Sociological Research Online
<http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/1/4/2.html>
with J. Bex*, & M. David*, 1997. The Bare-Foot Data-Base User: New Challenges for the Meta-Librarian pp. 100-105 in New Book Economy: Proceedings of the 5th international BOBCATSS Symposium, Budapest, January 1997
Budapest: Faculty of Economics and Information, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
with J. Bex*, & M. David* Making Sense of On-Line Information 1997 Paper presented at: ELVIRA4
, Milton Keynes. (ed.) C. Davies, May 1997
with Ian Fowler (50% of the work) Editors Introduction 1995 Paideuma
41
: 7-16
with Ian Fowler (50% of the work) Introductory Essay: the Grassfields and the Tikar 1996. pp 1-16 in African Crossroads: Intersections of history and anthropology in Cameroon
(eds) I. Fowler & D. Zeitlyn Oxford: Berghahn
with Andrew Wilson* The Childes Project: an Anthropological Resource 1995 CAM. The Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal
7
(1): 1-3
with Andrew Wilson* The Distribution of Person Referring Terms in Natural Conversation, 1995 Research on Language and Social Interaction
28
(1): 61-92
with Andrew Wilson* Speech Acts and Stiles 1994 Linguistics and Education
6
(1): 91-8
with Roger Blench (50% of the work) A Web of Words 1989/1990 (published in 1992) Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 10/11
, 171-86
Other
2003. Portals and Collaboration. Anthropology News
44
(8), 12.
2003. "Don't Cut There But There". Anthropology News
44
(6), 68.
2001. Fixing the Roof. Anthropology News
42
, 60.
Electronic and other resources:
Teaching material prepared as part of the HEFCE-Funded FDTL project:
Studies of Divination http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/Divination/
The Status of Ancestors in Africa http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/Ancestors/
Anthropological Index Online http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html
Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies (VIMS) available at http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/VIMS/
Searchable index to UK Social Anthropology Theses. URL: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Theses/theses_intro.html. Online October 1995
BICA Online: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/bicaindex.html
Oxford Union List of Periodicals of Interest to Social Anthropologists 1992
Oxford: I.S.C.A.
Selected book reviews:
Sterner 2003. The Ways of the Mandara Mountains. A Comparative Regional Approach. African Studies Review
2004 47
, 147-8.
Moore and Sanders (eds.) 2001. Magical Interpretations, Material Reality. Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. 2003 Anthropological Theory
3
, 395-7.
Danny Miller and Don Slater 2000 The internet: an ethnographic approach
2002 Anthropological Theory
2
, 127-8.
Bowker, G. & S.L. Star. 1999. “Sorting things out. Classification and its consequences
(Inside Technology)” 2001 Anthropological Theory
1(1): 121-2
Gould, S. H. 2000. “A new system for the analysis of kinship” 2001 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
7
, 393-4.
Asuagbor, Greg O. 1998 “Democratization and Modernization in a Mulitlingual Cameroon” 2000 Africa today
47(1):127-8
de Heusch, L. (ed.) 1995. “Objects. Signs of Africa
” 1996 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2(2): 396
Hamill, J. F. 1990 “Ethno-logic: The anthropology of Human reasoning” 1993 Man
28(4): 816-817
Dillon, R. G. 1990 “Ranking and resistance: A precolonial Cameroonian polity in regional perspective” 1993 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
24(1): 77-9
Hanks, W. H. 1990 “Referential Practice: Language and lived space among the Maya”. 1992, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
23(2): 189-90
Mühlhäusler and Harré. 1990. Pronouns and People. The Linguistic construction of social and personal identity
. 1992. Man
27
(2), 417-418.
Fardon, R. O. 1991 “Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba interpretations of ritual and religion” 1992 Africa
62(1): 132-3
Rodrigues de Areia, M. L. 1985 “Les Symboles Divinatoires - Analyse socio-culturelle d’une technique de divination des Cokwe de l’Angola” 1991 Africa
61(1): 148-9
Arens, W. and Ivan Karp (eds.) 1989 “Creativity of power. Cosmology and action in African societies” 1991 Man (n.s.)
26(2): 359
Jackson, M. 1986 “Barawa and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky” and 1989 “Paths towards a Clearing: Radical empiricism and ethnographic enquiry” 1990 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
21(2): 225-7
Fardon, R.O. 1988 “Raiders and Refugees: Trends in Chamba political development 1750-1950” 1990 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
21(2): 225-7
Kirby, J.P. 1986 “God, Shrines and Problem-Solving among the Anufø of Northern Ghana” 1990 Journal of Religion in Africa
20(3): 285-6
Strecker, I. 1988 “The Social Practice of Symbolisation: An anthropological analysis” 1989 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford,
20(3): 273-76
Caldwell, J. C. 1988 “Micro-Approaches: Similarities and differences, strengths and weaknesses” 1989 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
20(3): 291
Livingston, E. “Making Sense of Ethnomethodology” & H. Becker 1986 “Writing for Social Scientists” 1987 Cambridge Anthropology
12(1): 83
de Meur, G. (ed.). 1986 “New Trends in Mathematical Anthropology” 1986 Cambridge Anthropology
11(3):113-14
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