These pages were first established when I transfered to Oxford in 2010 after 15 years at University of Kent
Mambila related material is at the Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies.
A small AHRC funded project on "Facing the Future (with an eye on the Past)" ran in 2013
One of the outcomes of this was
an open access paper 'Looking Forward, Looking Back' the introduction to a special issue
of the journal History and Anthropology
It can be read at
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2015.1076813
An interview with DZ made in 2002 as part of Sarah Pink's Visualising Ethnography project. This was copied here in 2012 when the orginal web site closed
I have an official web page at ISCA
My academia.edu web page is here.
ISBN 978-1-80073-470-8 $99.00/£72.00 / Hb /
ISBN 978-1-80073-535-4 $14.95/£9.99 / Pb /
eISBN 978-1-80073-471-5 eBook
https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800734708
Berghahn Books Sept 2022
The Introduction is online via the publishers website:
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ZeitlynAnthropological/
A dedicated webpage collects other material about this book
Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers
(Routledge Studies in Anthropology). 2020.
London: Routledge.
HB: ISBN 9780367199500.
PB: ISBN 9781032174082
The Introduction is online via the publishers website
This book has been reviewed by:
Erwan Dianteill in International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 4 (2023) 167–170
From this review:
"The book, with its exceptional ambition and thorough ethnography,
is essential for all social scientists studying divination."
Published in 2014, a book written by David Zeitlyn and Roger Just:
Excursions in Realist Anthropology. A Merological Approach
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6403-9 ISBN-10: 1-4438-6403-X
A sample chapter is online at
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/excursions-in-realist-anthropology
Here is some material from some members of my family:
1. Material from Jonathan Zeitlyn
2. Material from Alice Zeitlyn
3. An article by my late father (10 Feb 1922- 18 March 1979). It has been typed up for web publication by my mother, Alice Zeitlyn: "Jokes and the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernard B. Zeitlyn History of Medicine – Spring Issue 1972, Volume 4 No. 1 pp 10-12.
A scanned photo album from Rugeley
Correcting mistaken spelling of proper names in published acknowledgements etc
Some thoughts on UK politics 2014/15
Planning the Dictionary of Mambila Biography
Created 10 October 2010
Last modified 13 Aug 2026