W E A Van Beek

Biographic Data

ID26170
NAMEW E A Van Beek
GIVEN NAMESW E A
FAMILY NAMEVan Beek
SIGNATUREVAN BEEK W E A
AFFILIATIONSJapan External Trade Organization
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Political Left and Right: Our Hands-On Logic

    Open AccessFrits Bienfait, W E A Van BeekARTICLEJournal of Social and Political…2014Cited by: 1References: 3

    The origins and immediate vitality of the left/right divide which emerged in French revolutionary politics from 1789 can only be understood against the background of a much older classification dynamic based on the primacy of the right hand, first described by Robert Hertz in 1909. This dynamic infused political thinking first in Versailles and since 1815 in democracies throughout the world. In the process, the classical left/right polarity acqui…

  • Tourisme et patrimoine au Mali: Destruction des valeurs anciennes ou valorisation concertée

    Open AccessW E A Van Beek, Philippe Lemineur et al.ARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2007

    Cet article traite des rapports conflictuels entre tourisme et patrimoine au Mali. En prenant pour exemple les sites de Djenné, des Falaises de Bandiagara-Pays Dogon et de Hombori, il étudie plus précisément la mise en tourisme de ces lieux, qui attirent un nombre croissant de visiteurs grâce à un patrimoine naturel et culturel exceptionnel, ainsi que les initiatives de conservation qui ont été entreprises dans un cadre international. Ce faisant,…

  • Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge

    W E A Van BeekCHAPTERAn Anthropological Critique of…2002

    In this contribution I try to explore the effect ecological changes and pressures have had on the adaptation of the Dogon in Mali.1 The general angle will be that of cultural ecology, in which a particular society is viewed from the perspective of its interaction with its physical as well as social environment. This interaction is of a complex nature, and in fact constitutes the subject of this chapter. It bears some features of a system, but the…

  • "Synthèse de l'atelier "Corruption et bureaucratie: Report of workshop "Corruption and Bureaucracy"

    Giorgio Blundo, W E A Van BeekARTICLEBulletin de l’APAD2002

    L'atelier s'est articulé autour de huit contributions, qui fournissent, par la diversité des terrains et des secteurs étudiés, un panorama non exhaustif mais suffisamment éclairant quant aux multiples facettes du phénomène corruptif en Afrique subsaharienne : la gestion officieuse des communes urbaines (B. Beridogo) et le racket des usagers dans les services publics, en particulier la police routière et la douane (M. Djiré), au Mali ; la corrupti…

  • Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression

    Marc Schiltz, Thomas D Blakely et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

  • On Myth as Science Fiction

    W E A Van BeekARTICLECurrent Anthropology1992Cited by: 1

  • Symbols for Communication: An Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Religion

    Charles Williams, J Van Baal et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1988

  • Das jahr des Stieres: Ein Opferritual der Zulgo und Gemjek in Nordkamerun

    Open AccessW E A Van Beek, Charlotte Von GraffenriedARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1986

  • On the Self and Sociobiology

    W E A Van BeekARTICLECurrent Anthropology1978References: 4

  • The Distancing of Emotion in Ritual [and Comments and Reply]

    Thomas J Scheff, Michael P Carroll et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1977Cited by: 45

    There is an ambivalence toward ritual in social science. On the one hand, it is seen as immensely valuable to the individual and to society. On the other hand, there is an underlying feeling that ritual is impotent. This paper presents a theory of the distancing of emotion which integrates the positive and negative orientations toward ritual. The theory links ritual to the process of catharsis of repressed emotion, which subsumes the positive ori…

  • Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion

    Agehananda Bharati, W E A Van Beek et al.ARTICLEMan1977References: 15

  • Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion: Essays in Honour of Jan van Baal

    Open AccessJan Van Baal, Jacques Scherer et al.BOOKExplorations in the Anthropology…1975

  • Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion: Essays in Honour of Jan Van Baal

    Open AccessW E A Van Beek, W van Beek et al.BOOKExplorations in the Anthropology…1975References: 15

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  • Alternative solutions in componential analyses

    Open AccessW E A Van Beek, W E A BeekARTICLEBijdragen tot de taal- land- en…1973References: 7

    In this paper we shall discuss one of the central problems of ethnoscience, namely the indeterminacy of the analysis. 1As the discussion of this topic centers on componential analyses of kinship terminologies, we shall illustrate our arguments with the example of a formal kinship analysis.The problem of alternative solutions and indeterminacy in formal semantic analysis is most succinctly formulated by Burling (1962Burling ( , 1963Burling ( , 196…