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Festschrift in Honour of Professor em. Dr. Therese Steffen

This edited volume includes contributions by archaeologists, sociologists, museum curators and heritage managers, as well as legal experts and representatives of the police to a conference held at the University of Geneva and blends points…

This edited volume features contributions presented to a conference held at the Centre for African Studies Basel in 2010.

Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about…

Apartheid posed profound challenges to the conceptions of humanity and development that dominated the world stage after World War II. Embroiled analyses the manner in which international religious organisations dealt with the formulation…

Das Wortgebilde «Eurafrika» entspringt der nicht unzutreffenden, aber auch ambivalenten Vorstellung, dass zwischen den beiden damit angesprochenen Kontinenten ganz spezielle Beziehungen bestehen – jedenfalls speziellere als die ebenfalls je…

Le "knowledge gap" entre le Nord et le Sud, et plus particulièrement avec l'Afrique, continue de s'agrandir. Au vu de cette situation difficile, de nombreuses questions se posent : quelles sont les raisons de l'échec des formes classiques…

The Symposium Text in Context: African Languages between Orality and Scripturality took place at the University of Zurich from October 17 to 20, 2001. The major topics were: multilingualism as a resource for meeting the needs of African…