Prof. Peter J. Pels
- Full professor
- Global Politics, Ethics, Religion, Development, Africa
| Telefoon: | +31 (0)71 527 3458 |
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| E-Mail: | pels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculteit / Onderdeel: | Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Instituut CA/Ontwikkelingssociologie |
| Werkadres: |
Pieter de la Court gebouw Wassenaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden Kamernummer 3A25 |
Keywords
Global Politics, Ethics, Religion, Material Culture, Technology and Science Fiction, Development, Africa.
Prof. Peter J. Pels
Prof. Peter Pels (1958) graduated in 1993 on a study of the colonial contacts between Dutch Catholic missionaries and a mountain people in Tanzania, and has since studied the introduction of modern political institutions in African countries, the history and anthropology of colonialism, the representation of Africa in modern European history, the history of anthropology and African studies, social science ethics and methodology, and the globalization of religious repertoires (especially in terms of Christianity, “animism” and New Age discourse). His most recent interests focus on the religious and secular aspects of conceptions of nature and technology, of the modern culture of materiality and object categories, and of science fiction.
Peter Pels currently supervises research in African politics and conflict-management, the landscapes of African water development, the heritage of African slavery, US American cyberculture, consumerism in Greece, the representation of East African refugees, and nomadism and conservation policies in Mongolia.
2011
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Pels, P.J. (2011)
Global 'experts' and African 'minds': Tanganyika anthropology as public and secret service, 1925-61. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17, pp. 788-810.
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2010
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Pels, P.J. (2010)
De Gammacanon (46) Antropologie Taboe. De Volkskrant
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Hodder, I. & Pels, P.J. (2010)
History houses: A new interpretation of architectural eleboration at Çatalhöyük. In: Hodder, I. (Ed.), Religion in the emergence of civilization: Çatalhöyük as a case study, pp. 163-186. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2010)
Magical things: on fetishes, commodities, and computers. In: Hicks, D. & Beaudry, M.C. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of material culture studies, pp. 613-633. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2010)
Temporalities of "religion" at Çatalhöyük. In: Hodder, I. (Ed.), Religion in the emergence of civilization: Çatalhöyük as a case study, pp. 220-267. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2010)
The extended case for method. Londen
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2009
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Pels, P.J. (2009)
In difficult order: Anthropology, history, politics, discipline (review essay). Current Anthropology, 50 (5), pp. 742-743.
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Pels, P.J. & Meyer, B. & Geschiere, P.L. (2009)
Introduction. In: Geschiere, P.L., Meyer, B., Pels, P. (Eds.), Readings in modernity in Africa, pp. 1-7. Oxford/Bloomington: James Currey/Indiana University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2009)
Missionaries. In: Iriye, A. & Saunier, P-Y. (Eds.), Dictionary of Transnational HistoryBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Pels, P.J. & Geschiere, P.L. & Meyer, B. (Eds.) (2009)
Readings in modernity in Africa. Oxford/Bloomington: James Currey/Indiana University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2009)
The Pidginization of Luguru politics. Administrative ethnography and the paradoxes of indirect rule. In: Geschiere, P., Meyer, B., Pels, P. (Eds.), Readings in modernity in Africa, pp. 57-71. Oxford/Bloomington: James Currey/Indiana University Press.
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2008
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Pels, P.J. (Ed.) (2008)
Associate editor bij : Encyclopedia of cultural and social anthropology (ed. A. Barnard & J. Spencer). London: Routledge.
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Pels, P.J. & Aupers, S. & Houtman, D. (2008)
Cybergnosis. Technology, religion and the secular. In: Vries, H., de (Ed.), Religion. Beyond a Concept (The Future of the Religious Past), 1. , pp. 687-703. New York: Fordham University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2008)
The modern fear of matter: Reflections on the protestantism of Victorian Science. Material Religion, 4/3, pp. 264-283.
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Pels, P.J. (2008)
What has anthropology learned from the anthropology of colonialism? Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists), 16 (3), pp. 280-299.
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2007
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
Afterword: Writing in the margins of a marginal discipline. In: Hulme, P. & McDougall, R. (Eds.), Writing, travel and empire: On the margins of anthropology, pp. 221-235. London/New York: I.B. Tauris.
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Bertrand, R. & Pels, P.J. & Briquet, J.-L. (Eds.) (2007)
Cultures of voting. The hidden history of the secret ballot. London/Bloomington: Hurst & Co./Indiana University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
Hekserij. TU Delft, Studium Generale
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
Imagining elections: Modernity, mediation and the secret ballot in late colonial Tanganyika. In: Bertrand, R., Pels, P.J., Briquet, J.-L. (Eds.), Cultures of voting. The hidden history of the secret ballot, pp. 100-113. London/Bloomington: Hurst & Co./Indiana University Press.
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Bertrand, R. & Pels, P.J. & Briquet, J.-L. (2007)
Introduction: Towards a historical ethnography of voting. In: Bertrand, R., Pels, P.J., Briquet, J.-L. (Eds.), Cultures of voting. The hidden history of the secret ballot, pp. 1-15. London/Bloomington: Hurst & CO./Indiana University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
Opening address, "Science fiction/Science faction". Amsterdam, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Lecture series organized with Waag Society and XS4all
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
T.R. - Development and Change. Development and Change
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
T.R. - Encyclopedia of Cultural and Social Anthropology. Encyclopedia of Cultural and Social Anthropology
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
T.R. - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists). Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists), 15
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Pels, P.J. (2007)
The death of John Mahenge: Amnesia as historical practice in writing Tanzanian nationalist history. New York, African Studies Association meetings. Panel Rethinking the Nation
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2006
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Pels, P.J. (2006)
Organisatie Jubilieumconferentie CA/OS.
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Pels, P.J. (2006)
Response to Matt Bradshaw. , LATISS (Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences) (2), 3. , pp. 207-210.
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Pels, P.J. (2006)
T.R. - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists). Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists)
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Pels, P.J. (2006)
Transformation and reconstitution of Khoe-San Identities. A.A.S. le Fleur I, Griqua Identities and Post-Apartheid Khoe-San Revivalism (1894-2004)dentites. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.
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Pels, P.J. (2006)
Wo's keine zehn Gebote gibt. Eine Revision des Verständnisses von Ethik anlässlich des Darkness-in-El-Dorado-Skandals. In: Hornbacher, A. (Ed.), Ethik, ethos, ethnos. Aspekte und probleme interkultureller Ethik, pp. 37-73. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
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2005
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Jansen, J. & Pels, P.J. (2005)
Departmental research seminars. Department CA/OS (7/8 times a year)
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Exceptionalising Africa: Towards an Anthropology of the global political imagination. Hindsgavl, Denmark
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Hackers & Utopia (three public lectures). Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Keynote Address. Billund, Denmark, Megaseminar
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Magic and technology. University of Edinburgh
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Modern gnosis, computer and music. Amsterdam
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
NWO "Cyberspace Salvations" research project. Leiden University/Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Performing Anthropology. University of Amsterdam
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
T.R. - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists). Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists)
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
What has anthropology learned from the anthropology of colonialism? National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
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Meskell, L.M.M. & Pels, P.J. (Eds.) (2005)
Embedding ethics. New York/Oxford: Berg Publishers.
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Onneweer, M. & Pels, P.J. (2005)
Executive Committee meeting. Leiden University
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Meskell, L.M.M. & Pels, P.J. (2005)
Introduction: Embedding ethics. In: Meskell, J.M.M. & Pels, P.J. (Eds.), Embedding ethics, pp. 1-26. New York/London: Berg Publishers.
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Pels, P.J. (2005)
Where there aren't no ten commandments: Redefining ethics during the El Dorado scandal. In: Meskell, L.M.M. & Pels, P.J. (Eds.), Embedding ethics, pp. 69-99. New York/London: Berg Publishers.
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2004
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
Cyberspace Salvations. Computer technology, simulation and modern gnosis. Amsterdam
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
Magic and Technology. Catholic University of Leuven
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
Meeting of Anthropology journals editors in Europe. Vienna
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Jansen, J. & Pels, P.J. (2004)
Organizers departmental research seminars. Leiden University
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Jansen, J. & Pels, P.J. (2004)
Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging in Africa. Leiden/Amsterdam
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
The public position of anthropology. Lisbon
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
Editorial: Anthropology after Darwin. Social Anthropology, 12 (2), pp. 173-175.
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
Het uitzonderen van 'Afrika': Naar een antropologie van de moderne poltieke verbeelding. (Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar in de culturele antropologie en de sociologie van Afrika bezuiden de Sahara (met nadruk op de moderne periode)). Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.p. 24.
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Pels, P.J. (2004)
T.R. - European Association of Social Anthropologists. European Association of Social Anthropologists, 12
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2003
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
'Where there aren't no ten commandments': The emergent ethics of the El Dorado scandal. Paris: ASSR/CERI.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Chieftaincy and indirect rule. Reflections on sovereignty and secrecy in late colonial Tanganyika. Accra, Ghana
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Cities and globalization. Yale University.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Magic and technology. Nederlands Godsdienst Genootschap.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Manuscript reviewer for American Anthropologist, and Current Anthropology.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
The peasant's professional: A brief history of Tanganyikan anthropology, 1925-1960. Program of Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
The politics of scandal. Paris: ASSR/CERI.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Introduction: Magic and modernity. In: Meyer, B. & Pels, P.J. (Eds.), Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment, pp. 1-38. Stanford, USA: Stanford University Press.
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Meyer, B. & Pels, P.J. (Eds.) (2003)
Magic and modernity. Stanford, USA: Stanford University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
Spirits of modernity: Alfred Wallace, Edward Tylor, and the visual politics of fact. In: Meyer, B. & Pels, P.J. (Eds.), Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment, pp. 241-271. Stanford, USA: Stanford University Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2003)
[Bespreking van: East African expressions]. In: Africa Today, 40, pp. 150-152.
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2001
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Pels, P.J. (2001)
Imaginer les élections. Modernité, mediation et vote secret au Tanganyika à la fin de la période coloniale. Politique Africaine (83), pp. 135-150.
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Pels, P.J. (2001)
Religion, consumerism and the modernity of the new age. [Bespreking van: The new age movement: The celebration of the self and the sacralization of modernity]. In: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 29, pp. 263-272.
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Pels, P.J. (2001)
[Bespreking van: Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon]. In: Current Anthropology, 42, pp. 268-269.
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2000
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
A localizing science: Tanganyika anthropology as public and secret service. Nashville, African Studies Annual meetings
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Creolization in secret: The emergence of nationalism in Uluguru. Parijs, Conference on "Beyond the State?", International Globalization Network
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Globalization and political change: Reflexivity, history and anthropology in the study of late colonial nationalism in Tanganyika. Gent (B), IDOGA lecture series on Africa
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Globalization and religion. Tampa (Florida), Presidential roundtable on "Globalization and Religion", Anthropology of Religion Section/American Ethnological Society Meetings
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Rumors of nationalism. Contesting public authority in Late Colonial Tanganyika. Berlijn, Institute of Ethnology
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Rumors of nationalism: Contesting public authority in Late Colonial Tanganyika. Cambridge, Conference ' Beyond the State'? of the United Kingdom biannual meetings
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
The Professionalization of Tanganyikan Anthropology, 1925-1960. St. Anthony's College Oxford, Conference on Anthropology and Africa
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Kizungu Rhythms. Luguru Christianity ass Ngoma. In: Gunderson, F. & Barz, G. (Eds.), Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, pp. 101-142. Dar es Salaam/London: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers / African Books Collective Ltd..
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
Occult truths: Race, conjecture and theosophy in Victorian Anthropology. In: Handler, R. & Stocking, G.W. (Eds.), Excluded ancestors, inventible traditions: Essays towards a more inclusive history of anthropology (History of Anthopology), 9. , pp. 11-41. Madison, USA: University of Wisconsin Press.
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Pels, P.J. (2000)
The Trickster's Dilemma. Anthropological ethics and method as liberal technologies of self. In: Strathern, M. (Ed.), Audit Cultures. Anthopological studies in accountability, ethics and the academy, pp. 135-172. London/New York: Routledge.
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1999
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
Fetish, chief, and other colonial objects. London: Brunel University, Conference on "Sociality/Materiality. The Status of the Object in Social Science"
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
Imagining elections. The translation of political forms in late colonial Tanganyka. New York, Lecture for Social Science Research Council
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
Imagining elections: Global and local democratization in Late Colonial Tanganyika. Senegal: Dakar, Conference on "Geographies of Autochtony", CODESRIA
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
Imagining elections: The translation of political forms in Late Colonial Tanganyika. African Studies Ass., Philadelphia, Panel on "Continuity and Change in Tanzanian Politics"
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
State fetishism and personality cults. Amsterdam, Seminar of programme "Globalization and the Construction of Communal Identities"
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
A politics of presence. Contacts between missionaries and Africans in Late Colonial Tanganyika. Switzerland/UK: Reading/Harwood Academic Publishers.
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
An ethical view from Europe. Anthropology News, 40 (6), pp. 30-31.
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Pels, P.J. & Salemink, O. (Eds.) (1999)
Colonial subjects. Essays in the practical history of anthropology. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
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Pels, P.J. & Salemink, O. (1999)
Introduction: Locating the colonial subjects of anthropology. In: Pels, P. & Salemink, O. (Eds.), Colonial subjects. Essays in the practical history of anthropology, pp. 1-52. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
Professions of duplexity. A prehistory of ethical codes in anthropology. Current Anthropology, 40 (2), pp. 101-136.
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Pels, P.J. (1999)
The rise and fall of the Indian Aborigines. Orientalism, anglicism and the emergence of an ethnology of India. In: Pels, P. & Salemink, O. (Eds.), Colonial subjects. Essays in the practical history of anthropology, pp. 82-116. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
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1998
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Pels, P.J. (1998)
The magic of Africa. Reflections on a western commonplace. African Studies Review, 41 (3), pp. 193-209.
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1997
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Pels, P.J. (1997)
Fetishism, Magic and Witchcraft. Amsterdam, Conference "Religion in the Making"
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Pels, P.J. (1997)
Occult Truths: Race, Conjecture and Theosophy in Victorian Anthropology. Amsterdam, Conference "Magic and Modernity"
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Pels, P.J. (1997)
The Magic of Africa. Reflections on a Western Topos. Columbus, Ohio, The Panel "Sorcery and Politics", African Studies Association meetings
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Pels, P.J. (1997)
The Resistance of Locality. Territory and Temporality in the Emergence of African Nationa-lism in late Colonial Uluguru. Berlin, Lecture series "African Modernities"
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Pels, P.J. (1997)
The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History and the Emergence of Western Governmentality. Annual Review of Anthropology, 26, pp. 163-183.
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Pels, P.J. (1997)
The Spirit of Matter: On Fetish, Rarity, Fact and Fancy. In: Spyer, P. (Ed.), Border Fetishisms. Material Objects in Unstable Spaces, pp. 91-120. New York/London: Routledge.
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1996
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Vedder, P.H. & Bouwer, E. & Pels, P.J. (1996)
Multicultural child care. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
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