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Professor of Social Anthropology (research),
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography,
51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK

http://about.me/david.zeitlyn


Activities

Employment (1)

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

(School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography; Wolfson College)
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ORCID Integration at the University of Oxford

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1990 | PhD (anthropology)
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David Zeitlyn

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

African Identities
2025-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: David Zeitlyn; Bruce Connell
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Putting representational boots on other feet: Moukarim postcards from Cameroon c 1914-15

Vestiges: Traces of Record
2024-12-10 | Journal article
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

Divination, Oracles & Omens

Bodleian Libraries Press
2024-12-05 | Book
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

Intimacy in a violent context: photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) in a time of troubles

Africa
2024-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0001-9720
Part of ISSN: 1750-0184
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition

Visual Studies
2023-08-08 | Journal article
Contributors: David Zeitlyn; Ernesto Coto; Andrew Zisserman
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An argument for sparsity

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2023-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1359-0987
Part of ISSN: 1467-9655
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

Sociolinguistic Studies of West And Central Africa

The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World
2023-06-27 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003198345
Contributors: Bruce Connell; David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts

Berghahn Books
2022-10-01 | Book
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

Arguments For Humility: Lessons For Anthropologists From Six Key Texts

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford JASO
2022-10-01 | Journal article
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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David Zeitlyn

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

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
2022-08-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Richard Taylor; John Forrester; Lydia Pedoth; David Zeitlyn
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Archaeological Evidence for Population Rise and Collapse between ~2500 and ~500 cal. yr BP in Western Central Africa

2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Geoffroy de Saulieu; Yannick Garcin; David Sebag; Pascal R. Nlend Nlend; David Zeitlyn; Pierre Deschamps; Guillemette Ménot; Pierpaolo Di Carlo; Richard Oslisly
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David Zeitlyn via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
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For Augustinian Archival Openness and Laggardly Sharing: Trustworthy Archiving and Sharing of Social Science Data From Identifiable Human Subjects

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
2021-10-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2504-0537
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David Zeitlyn

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

Open Linguistics
2021-06-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2300-9969
Contributors: Bruce Connell; David Zeitlyn; Sascha Griffiths; Laura Hayward; Marieke Martin
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David Zeitlyn

Divination and Ontologies

Social Analysis
2021-06-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0155-977X
Part of ISSN: 1558-5727
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David Zeitlyn

Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers

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Cite, plagiarize, pass-off: Deixis, bibliographic imposture and photography

Philosophy of Photography
2020-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: David Zeitlyn
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Why Divination?

Current Anthropology
2020-02-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0011-3204
Part of ISSN: 1537-5382
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Photo History by Numbers: Charting the Rise and Fall of Commercial Photography in Cameroon

Visual Anthropology
2019-08-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0894-9468
Part of ISSN: 1545-5920
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Perception, prestige and PageRank

PLOS ONE
2019-05-28 | Journal article
Contributors: David Zeitlyn; Iratxe Puebla; Daniel W. Hook
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Ethno-Ornithology of the Mushere of Nigeria: Children's Knowledge and Perceptions of Birds

Ethnobiology Letters
2018-04-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Grace Alheri-Bulus Pam; David Zeitlyn; Andrew Gosler
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Limits of analogy: are religions metaphoric species, individuals, or organs?

Religion, Brain and Behavior
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84975113168

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Learning from failure: The case of the disappearing Web site

First Monday
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84929324528

Contributors: Barone, F.; Zeitlyn, D.; Mayer-Schor, V.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Looking Forward, Looking Back

History and Anthropology
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84944044235

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Notes sur Ndéba, une enceinte fortifiée à la frontière du Cameroun et du Nigéria : réflexions préliminaires entre archéologie et histoire

Afrique : archéologie et arts
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Geoffroy de Saulieu; David Zeitlyn; Bienvenu Denis Nizésété; François Ngouoh
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David Zeitlyn via HAL

Report on Ndeba, a linear earthwork in the Cameroon-Nigeria borderlands. Preliminary discussions situated between archaeology and history

Afrique : archéologie et arts
2015-12-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Geoffroy de Saulieu; David Zeitlyn; Bienvenu Denis Nizésété; François Ngouoh
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David Zeitlyn via HAL

Antinomies of representation: Anthropology as an ekphrastic process-In memoriam: Rigobert Blaise Tueche August 26, 1968-December 8, 2000

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84929147870

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

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

Field Methods
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84872509674

Contributors: Thomae, M.; Zeitlyn, D.; Griffiths, S.S.; Van Vugt, M.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Anthropology in and of the archives: Possible futures and contingent pasts. archives as anthropological surrogates

Annual Review of Anthropology
2012 | Book
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2-s2.0-84873313172

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Divinatory Logics: Diagnoses and Predictions Mediating Outcomes

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David Zeitlyn
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Prevalence of Clinically Relevant UGT1A Alleles and Haplotypes in African Populations

Annals of Human Genetics
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79851496878

Contributors: Horsfall, L.J.; Zeitlyn, D.; Tarekegn, A.; Bekele, E.; Thomas, M.G.; Bradman, N.; Swallow, D.M.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

You can't build a car with just one wheel (why duplication may not be such a bad think), and some limitations of internet search/retrieval

First Monday
2011 | Journal article
Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier
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Diary evidence for political competition: Mambila autoethnography and pretensions to power

African Studies Review
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77958133323

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

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

BMC Evolutionary Biology
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77950418296

Contributors: Veeramah, K.R.; Connell, B.A.; Pour, N.A.; Powell, A.; Plaster, C.A.; Zeitlyn, D.; Mendell, N.R.; Weale, M.E.; Bradman, N.; Thomas, M.G.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

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

History and Anthropology
2010 | Journal article
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David Zeitlyn

Representation/self-representation: A tale of two portraits; or, portraits and social science representations

Visual Anthropology
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77957900820

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

A dying art? Archiving photographs in Cameroon

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Understanding anthropological understanding: For a merological anthropology

Anthropological Theory
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-67650908063

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Life-history writing and the anthropological silhouette

Social Anthropology
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-48549085875

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Making Sense of Anthropological Synonyms

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Sex-specific genetic data support one of two alternative versions of the foundation of the ruling dynasty of the Nso' in Cameroon

Current Anthropology
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-53549119660

Contributors: Veeramah, K.R.; Zeitlyn, D.; Fanso, V.G.; Mendell, N.R.; Connell, B.A.; Weale, M.E.; Bradman, N.; Thomas, M.G.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research

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

Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-53549126881

Contributors: Veeramah, K.R.; Thomas, M.G.; Weale, M.E.; Zeitlyn, D.; Tarekegn, A.; Bekele, E.; Mendell, N.R.; Shephard, E.A.; Bradman, N.; Phillips, I.R.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Language, diet, and ethnicity in Mayo-Darlé, Adamaoua, Cameroon

Anthropos
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33847142832

Contributors: Keen, A.E.; Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Rolling Paper? Anthropology News Smells Bad

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Social networks and the creation of the Pitt Rivers Museum

Journal of Material Culture
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-35348902466

Contributors: Larson, F.; Petch, A.; Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

The visual anthropologist in the digital library: From filmstrips to Salient stills and back to Barthes

Visual Anthropology Review
2006 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-51249136758

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Small ads as first steps to Internet business: A preliminary survey of Cameroon's commercial Internet usage

First Monday
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84872505382

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.; Barone, F.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

The gift of the gab. Anthropology and conversation analysis

Anthropos
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-4344696608

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

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

American Journal of Human Genetics
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-2442673931

Contributors: Mulcare, C.A.; Weale, M.E.; Jones, A.L.; Connell, B.; Zeitlyn, D.; Tarekegn, A.; Swallow, D.M.; Bradman, N.; Thomas, M.G.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier

Ethnogenesis and fractal history on an African frontier: Mambila-njerep-mandulu

Journal of African History
2003 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0037656136

Contributors: Zeitlyn, D.; Connell, B.
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David Zeitlyn via Scopus - Elsevier
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Peer review (3 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Humanities & social sciences communications. (1)
Review activity for UK Research and Innovation (2)