Jon Abbink (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted:  Tues, April 26, 2011


Dr. Jon Abbink
African Studies Center
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:   +31-71-5273367
fax:     +31-71-5273344 
e-mail:   abbink@ascleiden.nl



Research: 
The Horn of Africa (esp. Ethiopia)

Themes of interest:  
Ethnicity, political anthropology, ethnology and material culture of
Ethiopia.

For a full list of publications, see: http://www.ascleiden.nl/research/Abbink_GJ.aspx



Selected publications:

A Bibliography on Christianity in Ethiopia. Leiden, The Netherlands:
African Studies Center, 2003.  Working paper 52. (102 p.)

Eritreo-Ethiopian studies in society and history: a supplementary
bibliography 1960-1995. Leiden, The Netherlands:  African Studies
Center, 1996.

Ethiopian society and history: a bibliography of Ethiopian studies
1957-1990. Research reports (Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.
Afrika-Studiecentrum); no. 45.  Leiden, The Netherlands: African Study
Centre, 1991.

Co-Editor, with Göran Aijmer.  
Meanings of violence: a cross cultural perspective. Oxford ; New
York : Berg Publishers, 2000.

Co-Editor, with Gerti Hesseling.
Election observation and democratization in Africa.  Basingstoke, 
UK : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.


Journal articles:

"An historical-anthropological approach to Islam in Ethiopia: issues of 
identity and politics," Journal of African cultural studies.  Vol. 
11, no. 2 (1999): 109-24.

"Violence, ritual and reproduction: culture and context in Surma 
duelling," Ethnology.  Vol. 38, no. 2 (1999): 227-42.

"The Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute," African affairs.  Vol. 97, 
no. 389 (1998): 551-65.