David Zeitlyn Publications
NB this is no longer updated. For recent publications see my
Oxford webpage
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://www.mambila.info/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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