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  1. Anthropological accounts need both thick and thin descriptons

    Article • American Anthropologist, January 2026, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  2. Essays by Marcus Banks

    Article • December 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  3. Understanding Social Images

    Article • June 2025, Berghahn Journals

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  4. Building Social Worlds

    Article • April 2025, Berghahn Journals

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  5. Intimacy in photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) taken in a time of troubles

    Article • Africa, February 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  6. What is going on and who is responsible? Scholarship on conflict on the Mambila Plateau. A response to Lenshie et al. 2021

    Article • African Identities, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  7. Sociolinguistic Studies of West And Central Africa

    Article • June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  8. For Sparsity: say less more clearly

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  9. Sixty Useful Concepts to help social science research

    Article • September 2022, Berghahn Journals

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  10. Structured output methods and environmental issues: perspectives on co-created bottom-up and ‘sideways’ science

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  11. Archiving ethnography? The impossibility and the necessity

    Article • Ateliers d anthropologie, March 2022, OpenEdition

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  12. Archiver l’ethnographie ? Entre impossibilité et nécessité

    Article • Ateliers du LESC, March 2022, OpenEdition

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  13. Archaeological Evidence for Population Rise and Collapse between ~2500 and ~500 cal. yr BP in Western Central Africa

    Article • Afrique Archeologie et Arts, November 2021, OpenEdition

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  14. How complete is the Jacques Toussele archive?

    Article • Visual Studies, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  15. Share Personal Data like National census data - with a rolling 100 year embargo

    Article • Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, October 2021, Frontiers

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  16. Divination and Ontologies

    Article • Social Analysis, June 2021, Berghahn Journals

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  17. Language ecology, language endangerment, and relict languages: Case studies from Adamawa (Cameroon-Nigeria)

    Article • Open Linguistics, January 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  18. Preuve archéologique de l’augmentation et de l’effondrement de la population entre ~2500 et ~500 ans cal. BP en Afrique centrale occidentale

    Article • Afrique Archeologie et Arts, January 2021, OpenEdition

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  19. Considering different ways of thinking about the future, about possible futures

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2020, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  20. Why a photograph is like a bibliographic citation

    Article • Philosophy of Photography, June 2020, Intellect

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  21. Mambila divination and oracles: what are they used for?

    Article • February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  22. Why Divination?

    Article • Current Anthropology, February 2020, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  23. Charting the Rise and Fall of Commercial Cameroonian Photographers

    Article • Visual Anthropology, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  24. Networks in the Academic genealogy of primatologists

    Article • PLOS One, May 2019, PLOS

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  25. Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents

    Article • Ateliers d anthropologie, January 2019, OpenEdition

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  26. Children's Knowledge and Perceptions of Birds among the Mushere of Nigeria

    Article • Ethnobiology Letters, April 2018, Society of Ethnobiology

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  27. Using linguistic features to find examples of conversational 'problems'

    Article • Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  28. Limits of analogy: are religions metaphoric species, individuals, or organs?

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  29. Notes sur Ndéba, une enceinte fortifiée à la frontière du Cameroun et du Nigéria

    Article • Afrique Archeologie et Arts, December 2015, OpenEdition

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  30. The Past vs The Future, Pasts vs Futures

    Article • History and Anthropology, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  31. Exploring cases where websites disappear

    Article • First Monday, April 2015, University of Illinois Libraries

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  32. What makes an image a portrait?

    Article • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory, December 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  33. Intergroup Contact and Rice Allocation via a Modified Dictator Game in Rural Cameroon

    Article • Field Methods, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  34. Anthropology in and of the Archives: Possible Futures and Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates

    Article • Annual Review of Anthropology, October 2012, Annual Reviews

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  35. Divinatory Logics

    Article • Current Anthropology, October 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  36. Prevalence of Clinically Relevant UGT1A Alleles and Haplotypes in African Populations

    Article • Annals of Human Genetics, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  37. Photographic Props / The Photographer as Prop: The Many Faces of Jacques Tousselle

    Article • History and Anthropology, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  38. Representation/Self-representation: A Tale of Two Portraits; or, Portraits and Social Science Representations

    Article • Visual Anthropology, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  39. Diary Evidence for Political Competition in Mambila (Cameroon) examples of Pretensions to Power

    Article • African Studies Review, September 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  40. Little genetic differentiation as assessed by uniparental markers in the presence of substantial language variation in peoples of the Cross River region of Nigeria

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  41. A dying art? Archiving photographs in Cameroon

    Article • Anthropology Today, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  42. Understanding anthropological understanding

    Article • Anthropological Theory, June 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  43. The potentially deleterious functional variant flavin-containing monooxygenase 2*1 is at high frequency throughout sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, October 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  44. Sex‐Specific Genetic Data Support One of Two Alternative Versions of the Foundation of the Ruling Dynasty of the Nso′ in Cameroon

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  45. Life-history writing and the anthropological silhouette

    Article • Social Anthropology, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  46. The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research

    Article • January 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Stephen M Lyon, Professor David Zeitlyn

  47. Making Sense of Anthropological Synonyms

    Article • Anthropology News, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  48. Rolling Paper? Anthropology News Smells Bad

    Article • Anthropology News, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  49. Social Networks and the Creation of the Pitt Rivers Museum

    Article • Journal of Material Culture, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  50. The T Allele of a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism 13.9 kb Upstream of the Lactase Gene (LCT) (C−13.9kbT) Does Not Predict or Cause the Lactase-Persistence Phenotype in Africans

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, June 2004, Elsevier

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  51. Maintaining Privacy , managing Arguments in small communities

    Article • Africa, November 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  52. Portals and Collaboration

    Article • Anthropology News, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  53. “Don't Cut There But There!”

    Article • Anthropology News, September 2003, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  54. Gift economies in the development of open source software: anthropological reflections

    Article • Research Policy, July 2003, Elsevier

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  55. Multiple histories of the Mambila of Cameroon and Nigeria

    Article • The Journal of African History, March 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  56. Argument, Privacy and Power in Mambila Society

    Article • Africa, January 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  57. Fixing the Roof

    Article • Anthropology News, May 2001, Wiley

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  58. How Archival Sources can help Mambila population history

    Article • History in Africa, January 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  59. Editorial

    Article • Education for Information, April 1999, IOS Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  60. Access denied: the politics of new communications media

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, August 1998, Elsevier

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  61. The CHILDES Project: An Anthropological Resource

    Article • CAM, February 1995, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  62. The Distribution of Person-Referring Expressions in Natural Conversation

    Article • Research on Language and Social Interaction, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  63. Film reviews

    Article • Visual Anthropology, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  64. Mambila Figurines and Masquerades: Problems of Interpretation

    Article • African Arts, January 1994, JSTOR

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  65. Speech acts and Stiles

    Article • Linguistics and Education, January 1994, Elsevier

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  66. Spiders in and out of Court, or, ‘the long legs of the law: styles of spider divination in their sociological contexts

    Article • Africa, April 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  67. Un fragment de l'histoire des Mambila : un texte de Duabang

    Article • Journal des africanistes, January 1992, PERSEE Program

    Professor David Zeitlyn

  68. Mambila spider divination, exploring contradictions

    Article • Man, December 1990, JSTOR

    Professor David Zeitlyn