Most of my ethnographic work is related to Ghana where I studied and
conducted research from 1969 to 1973 and intermittently from 1994 till
today. On this page you only find publications on Ghana that do not (easily)
fit in any of the other 'topics' presented on this website.
| 2019 |
(editor with Ursula Read) Intimacy, morality,
and precarity: Globalization and family care in Africa—Insights from
Ghana. Special issue Africa Today 65 (3). |
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| 2012 - 2013 |
(with Kristine Krause & Kodjo A. Senah,
eds) Health and Health Care. Special issue Ghana Studies 15/16 [pdf] |
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| 2005 |
(with P. Atuobi & A. O. Boamah) Life,
love and death: Conversations with six elders in Kwahu-Tafo,
Ghana. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. [pdf]
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| 2002 |
Oud in Ghana. Groningen: Volkenkundig
Museum Gerardus van der Leeuw. [pdf] |
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| 1975 |
Marriage, inheritance and witchcraft:
a case study of a rural Ghanaian family. Leiden: African Studies Centre
(Master Thesis, University of Ghana, 430 pp).* (poor print):
[pdf]
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| 2021 |
Verwantschap als vriendschap / vriendschap
als verwantschap: Een antropologisch perspectief op siblings in Ghana.
In: Kathleen Emmery & Gianni Loosveldt (red) Broer of zus, de
match van je leven: Fairness in siblingrelaties. Antwerpen / Apeldoorn:
Garant, pp. 41-54. [pdf] |
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| 2019 |
(with Ursula M. Read) Introduction to
special issue on intimacy, morality, and precarity: Globalization
and family care in Africa—Insights from Ghana. Africa Today 65 (3):
vii-xxi. [pdf] |
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| 2019 |
(with Jonathan M. Dapaah & Benjamin
K. Kwansa) Avoided family care, diverted intimacy: How people with
HIV find new kinship in two Ghanaian hospitals. In: Ursula Read &
Sjaak van der Geest (eds) Intimacy, morality, and precarity: Globalization
and family care in Africa—Insights from Ghana. Special issue Africa
Today 65 (3): 31-46. [pdf] |
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| 2016 |
Celebrating the life and achievements
of Philip F. W. Bartle (1943-2015). Website Ghana Studies. [pdf] |
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| 2014 |
(with Kristine Krause) Introduction: Studying
Health and Health Care in Ghana. Ghana Studies 15/16: 7-40. [pdf] |
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| 2013 |
Kinship as friendship: Brothers and sisters
in Kwahu, Ghana. In: Erdmute Alber, Cati Coe, and Tatjana Thelen (eds)
The anthropology of sibling relations: Shared parentage, experience,
and exchange. London: Palgrave, pp. 51-70. [text]
[pdf] |
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| 2009 |
Bookreview of: Making men in Ghana (Stephan
F. Miescher) Africa 79 (4): 626-628. [pdf] |
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| 2009 |
Bookreview of: The problem of money: African
agency and western medicine in Northern Ghana (Bernhard Bierlich)
African Affairs 108 (432): 495-496. [pdf] |
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| 2009 |
'Anyway!’ Lorry inscriptions in Ghana.
In: J.-B. Gewald, S. Luning and K. van Walraven (eds.) The speed of
change: Motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890 – 2000. Leiden/Boston:
Brill, pp. 253-293. [pdf]
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| 2009 |
Listening: Friendship according to Kwame
Opoku. In: Sjaak van der Geest & Marian Tankink (eds) Theory and
action: Essays for an anthropologist. Amsterdam: 203-209.[pdf] |
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| 2007 |
Life after dark in Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana.
Etnofoor 20(2): 23-39.[pdf] |
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| 2007 |
Fifty years in Kwahu-Tafo: Memories and
reflections of an anthropologist. Ghana Studies 10: 65-88.[pdf] |
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| 2007 |
(with Marcel J. H. Ariës, Hanneke
Joosten & Harry H. J. Wegdam) Fracture treatment by bonesetters
in central Ghana: Patients explain their choices and experiences.
Tropical Medicine & International Health 12 (4): 564-574.[pdf] |
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| 2006 |
Sleeping in Kwahu, Ghana. Medische Antropologie
18 (1): 73-86.[pdf] |
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| 2004 |
(with S.A. Chowdhury) Migration and safe
childbirth: Perceptions of Ghanaian women in the Netherlands. Cultuur
Migratie Gezondheid 3 (4): 14-25. [pdf] |
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| 2000 |
Goed en slecht geld: Gesprekken in een
Ghanees dorp. Etnofoor 13 (2): 78-88.[pdf] |
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| 1998 |
Resettlement / unsettlement in Ghana:
Snippets from an anthropological notebook. Ghana Study Council Newsletter
Nr 11: 5-7. [pdf] |
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| 1987 |
Living place/loving place: remembering
Kwahu.Ghana Newsletter 26/27:23-25. [pdf] |
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| 1982 |
Bookreview of: The village woman in Ghana
(J. Bukh), Journal of Modern African Studies 20 (2): 347-348. [pdf] |
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| 1977 |
Booekreview of: Marriage among a matrilineal
elite: A family study of Ghanaian senior civil servants (Christine
Oppong), in: Bijdragen voor Taal-, Land- & Volkenkunde 133 (1):
178-80. [pdf] |
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| 1977 |
Bookreview of: Growing up in Dagbon (Christine
Oppong), in: Bijdragen voor Taal-, Land- & Volkenkunde 133 (1):
180-182. [pdf]
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| 1976 |
Marriage in Kwahu, Ghana. In: S.A. Roberts
(ed) Law and the family in Africa. The Hague/Paris: Mouton, pp. 183-204.
(under pseudonym Wolf Bleek)* [pdf]
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| 1976 |
Role relationships between husband and
wife in rural Ghana. Journal of Marriage and the Family 38 (3): 572-578.
[pdf]
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| 1976 |
Witchcraft, gossip and death: a social
drama. Man 12: 526-41.*
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| 1975 |
Parents and children in a Kwahu lineage.
In: L.E. Engberg (ed) Family welfare and planning. Legon: Institute
of African Studies, pp. 30-8.* [pdf] |
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| 1975 |
Appearance and reality: The ambiguous
position of women in Kwahu, Ghana. In: P. Kloos & K.W. van der
Veen (eds) Rule and reality: essays in honour of André J.F.
Köbben. Amsterdam: Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, pp. 50-65.[pdf]
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| 1972 |
Geographical mobility and conjugal residence
in a Kwahu lineage. Research Review (Ghana) 8 (3): 47-55.[pdf] |
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