RMCA publications

Currently three series are available online (digital series):

• Documents on Human and social sciences: Work of researchers, inventories and doctoral theses in Humanities.
• Digital publications on Geology. Works that in the past were available only as books in the RMCA series ‘Tervuren African Geosciences Collection’ of the RMCA but out of stock.
• Zoological Documentation Online Series. From 2010, this series will propose work of researchers, inventories and doctoral theses in Zoology.
   

Readers will also find RMCA annual reports in PDF format.

More information : Isabelle Gerard

Documents on Human and Social Sciences

Research works, inventories and doctoral dissertations are offered in open access because of the wide appeal of their content. However, they have not been subjected to peer review. They can be accessed and downloaded free of charge.
 

	Inventory of the Paul Collaer Archives maintained at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA)  managed by Annette Boucneau. Introduction by Ignace De Keyser, Head of the Ethnomusicology Section (pdf 306KB)
	Traditions musicales chez deux peuples Gour du Nord-Est de la Côte d'Ivoire: cas des Nafana et des Dégha de la région de Bondoukou (pdf 1,24 MB/in French) by Aka Konin
	La vie musicale chez les Agni-n'dénéan (pdf  2,3MB / in French) by Aka Konin
	Les instruments de musique - Koulango (pdf 1MB / in French) by Aka Konin
	Aspects de l'art musical des Tchaman de Côte d'Ivoire (pdf 1.5 MB/ in French) by Aka Konin
	Traditions musicales chez les Akan Lagunaires de Côte d'Ivoire (pdf 1.8 MB / in French) by Aka Konin
	Les instruments de musique - Gban (pdf 2MB / in French) by Aka Konin and Gustave Guiraud
	Aspects de la métallurgie des Sénoufo et des Guéré de Côte d’Ivoire (pdf 4,9 MB / in French) by Daniel Arnoldussen (ed.) & Soro Tenena
	Chaîne opératoire de la poterie. Références ethnographiques, analyses et reconstitutions (pdf 11 MB / in French) by Alexandre Livingstone Smith
	Une introduction à l'ethnohistoire des Hema du Nord (Congo du Nord-Est) (pdf  5 MB) by Edmond Thiry
	Pleureuses du Luapula-Moëro. Mélopées funèbres du Sud-Est Katanga (pdf 18MB/ in French) by Léon Verbeek
	Cesse de pleurer, mon enfant. Berceuses du Sud-Est du Katanga (pdf 637 KB / in French) by Léon Verbeek
	Le chasseur africain et son monde. Chansons de chasse du Sud-Est du Katanga (pdf 2 MB / in French) by Léon Verbeek
	Les jumeaux africains et leur culte. Chansons des jumeaux du Sud-Est du Katanga (pdf 502 KB / in French) by Léon Verbeek
	Chansons du pilon et de la meule. Pileuses du Sud-Est du Katanga (pdf 502 kb / in French) by Léon Verbeek
	Univers des pêcheurs et piroguiers africains. Chansons de la pêche et de la pirogue au sud-est du Katanga (pdf  1,4 MB / in French) by Léon Verbeek
	La famine Ruzagayura (Rwanda, 1943 - 1944) causes, conséquences et réactions des autorités (pdf  2,9 MB / in French) by Dantes Singiza
	Inventory of the Stanley Archives (pdf 1,9 MB) by Peter Daerden and Maurits Wynants

Digital publications in Geology

The available works in this category were previously published in book form in the RMCA series Tervuren African Geosciences Collection.
These are currently out of print but with the author’s permission, they are still accessible in PDF format free of charge.

Géologie du Sahara occidental et central (pdf 44 MB / in French)  by Jean Fabre

Zoological Documentation Online Series

The collection of books entitled ‘Zoological Documentation’, which was a subseries of our ‘Zoological Sciences Annals’, was discontinued in 2002 after issue no. 27.
Today the RMCA offers a digital version of this long-time series: ‘Zoological Documentation Online Series’.

Research works, inventories and doctoral dissertations available only online can be accessed and downloaded free of charge (open access).
 

Type Specimens of Birds (334 p.) in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

Annual reports
 

	Annual report 2010 (pdf 39 MB)
	Annual report 2009 (FR) (pdf 9 MB)
	Annual report 2007-2008 (pdf 24 MB)
	Annual report 2005-2006  (pdf 8,1 MB)
	Annual report 2003-2004 (pdf  4 MB)
	Annual report 2002 (pdf 2,75 MB)