Africa

Belgium

Full Professor

Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Filip.Deboeck@ant.kuleuven.ac.be

Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Catholic University of Leuven
B-3000
Leuven
Belgium

phone: +32 16 326046
fax: +32 16 326000

Democratic Republic of Congo ; Angola

Activities, Research Teaching: geographical area of interest: Congo (ex-
Zaire), Angola.

Research Interests: urban anthropology

Teaching interests: urban anthropology, political anthropology, postcolonial theory,
anthropology of children and youth.

IT (Articles in internationally reviewed academic journals)

De Boeck, F. (2012). Infrastructure: Commentary from Filip De Boeck. Cultural Anthropology, 2012 (November 26), art.nr. 3, Online. (IF publication year: 2.49) (most recent IF: 1.61).

De Boeck, F. (2011). Inhabiting ocular ground: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics. Cultural Anthropology, 26 (2), 263-286. (IF publication year: 2.95) (most recent IF: 1.61).

De Boeck, F. (2008). La réponse aux critiques de Filip De Boeck. Politique africaine (110), 183-189.

De Boeck, F. (2006). La ville de Kinshasa, une architecture du verbe. Esprit, 12, 79-105.

De Boeck, F., Van Synghel, K. (2006). Interview with Vincent Lombume Kalimasi (DVD). Politique africaine, 100, DVD.

De Boeck, F. (2005). The apocalyptic interlude: revealing death in Kinshasa. African Studies Review, 48 (2), 11-32.

De Boeck, F. (2005). Autour d'un livre: witchcraft, violence and democracy in South Africa. Politique africaine, 97, 179-183.

De Boeck, F., Plissart, M. (2004). The city is the body. Lotus international, 124, 12-17.

De Boeck, F. (2001). Garimpeiro worlds: digging, dying and hunting for diamonds in Angola. Review of African Political Economy, 90, 549-562. (most recent IF: 0.92).

De Boeck, F. (2000). Le "deuxième monde" et les "enfants-sorciers" en République Démocratique du Congo. Politique africaine, 80, 32-57.

De Boeck, F. (2000). Faire et défaire la société: enfants, jeunes et politique en Afrique. Politique africaine, 80, 5-11.

De Boeck, F. (2000). Borderland Breccia: The Mutant Hero in the Historical Imagination of a Central-African Diamond Frontier. Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History, 1 (2).

De Boeck, F. (1998). Domesticating diamonds and dollars. Expenditure, identity and sharing in Southwestern Zaire. Development and Change, 29, 777-810.
De Boeck, F. (1998). Democracy and the state-society paradigm. Reflections on S. Adelman's Paper. Journal of legal pluralism, 42, 89-94.

De Boeck, F. (1994). When Hunger Goes Around the Land: Food and Hunger in Luunda Land. Man, 29 (2), 257-282.

De Boeck, F. (1994). Of Trees and Kings: Politics and Metaphor among the Aluund of southwestern Zaire. American ethnologist, 21 (3), 451-473. (most recent IF: 1.74).

Devisch, R., De Boeck, F. (1994). Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka divination compared:from representation and social engineering to embodiment and world-making. Journal of Religion in Africa, 24 (2), 98-133.

De Boeck, F. (1991). Therapeutic Efficacy and Consensus among the Aluund of SW Zaire. Africa: Journal of the international African institute, 61 (2), 159-185. (most recent IF: 0.75).

De Boeck, F. (1991). Of Bushbucks without horns: male and female initiation among the Aluund of southwest Zaire. Journal des Africanistes, 61 (1), 37-71.

De Boeck, F. (1991). Comment on van der Geest's and Reynolds-Whyte's Article 'The Charm of Medicines: Metaphors and Metonyms. Medical anthropology quarterly, 5 (2), 170-172. (most recent IF: 0.61).

urban anthropology.