1947 “De Kamer der Reden-Rijke en Const-Minnende Gulde-broeders der Confrérie van den H. Rochus.” Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Stad Deinze en van het Land Aan Leie en Schelde 14: 1-43. Read the article: De Kamer

1950 “La généalogie comme instrument de travail.” In Troisième rapport annuel de l’Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique centrale (IRSAC), pp. 161-69. Brussels: M. Hayez. Bembe social structure. Read the article: Généalogie Instrument Travail

1951 “Bembe Kinship Terminology” (in Flemish). See manuscripts on this website.

1951 “Bembe Classificatory System” (in Flemish). See manuscripts on this website.

1952 “De Mbu‘i was ‘Abeca bij de Babembe.” Zaire 6: 691-97. Read the article: De Mbui

1952 “Bembe Treatment of Pollution during Pregnancy.” Man 52: 146-47. Read the article: Pollution during Pregnancy

1952 “The Seniority Principle in the Bembe Marriage System.” See manuscripts on this website.

1953 “La monnaie musanga des Balega.” Zaire 7: 675-86. Lega shell money. Read the article: Monnaie Musanga

1953 “Some Remarks on Segy’s Warega Ivories.” Zaire 7: 1076-82. Lega ivory sculpture. Read the article: Segy’s Warega

1953 “Répartition et droits du pangolin chez les Balega.” Zaire 7: 899-934. Lega ritual animal. Reid the article: Pangolin chez les Balega

1953 “Signification d’une statuette lega.” Revue coloniale belge 195: 866-67. Read the article: Signification d’une statuette lega

1953 “De vorming van fictieve patrilineaire verwantschapsgroepen bij de Balega.” Band 12, 4: 135-45. Read the article: Fictive Kinship among the Lega

1953 “Mubela: een epos der Balega.” (Mubila an Epic of the Balega) Band 12: 68-74.

1954 “De verwording der Kunst bij de Balega.” (The Decay of Artistic Activities among the Lega) Zaire 8: 273-78. Read the article: Verwording der Kunst bij de Balega

1954 “Function of a Lega Mask.” Archives internationales d’ethnographie 47: 108-20. Read the article: Function of a Lega Mask

1954  “The idégo-payments among the Lega.” In Report on the Second Joint Conference on Research in the Social Sciences in East and Central Africa, 1953, pp. 161-71. Kampala: East African Institute for Social Research (E.A.I.S.R.). Read the article: Idego Payments among the Lega

1954 “Maternal Uncles and Sororal Nephews among the Lega.” In Report on the Second Joint Conference on Research in the Social Sciences in East and Central Africa, 1953, pp. 122-33. Kampala: E.A.I.S.R. Read the article: Maternal Uncles and Nephews

1954 With A.N. Meeussen. “Bembe-Tekst.” Kongo-Overzee 20: 74-78. Read the article: Bembe Tekst

1955 “De mumbo-instelling bij de Banyanga (Kivu).” (The Mumbo Institution among the Banyanga (Kivu) Kongo-Overzee 21: 441-48. Read the article: Mumbo-instelling

1955 “Mubela: Een Epos der Balega,” Band XII:12, pp. 60-74.

1955 “Superstrukturen of geheime genootschappen? Het probleem van sommige gezelschappen in Kivu.” (Superstructures or Secret Societies? The Problem of Certain Associations in the Kivu) Folia Scientifica Africae Centralis 1: 6-8. Read the article: Superstrukturen

1956 “Inventory of Shi Material Culture Terminology,” with an introduction. See manuscripts on this website

1956 “Aspects du problème foncier au Congo.” Folia Scientifica Africae Centralis 2:8-10. Read the article: Problème foncier au Congo

1956 Aperçu des principaux critères à observer dans l’étude ethnologique du problème foncier. Léopoldville: Land Tenure Commission, 1956.

1956 “L’organisation politique des Nyanga: la chefferie Ihana (Part I).” Kongo-Overzee22: 301-41. Read the article: La chefferie Ihana

1956 “Mwéndo de Zwoeger: een heldendicht van de Banyanga.” Zuiderkruis 1: 77-90. Read the article: Mwendo de Zwoeger

1956 “Signification et méthodes de l’ethnologie.” Bulletin des Amis de l‘Université de Liège 8:19-30. Read the article: Signification et méthode de l’ethnologie

1956 “La société rurale: thèmes et orientations.” In Neuvième rapport annuel de l‘IRSAC, 1956, pp. 94-96.

1956 Nyanga Material Culture: List of Nyanga terms (371 terms) with Swahili and English Equivalents. See manuscripts on this website.

1957 “La société kumu face au Kitawala.” Zaire 11: 7-40. Read the article: Kitawala

1957 “Fondements de l‘organisation politique des Lunda du Mwaantayaav en territoire de Kapanga.” Zaire 11: 787-817. Read the article: Organisation politique des Lunda

1957 “L’organisation politique des Nyanga: la chefferie Ihana (Part II).” Kongo-Overzee 23: 59-98. Read the article: Chefferie Ihana II

1957 Les données du problème foncier considéré du point de vue ethnologique. Léopoldville: Land Tenure Commission.

1957 With Jean Dufour. Notes et documents divers. Léopoldville: Land Tenure Commission.

1957 “L’art des Balega.” Jeune Afrique 10, n° 25:15-17. Read the article: L’art des Balega

1958 “Mwéndo de Zwoeger: een heldendicht van de Banyanga (Part II).”(Mwendo the Fighter: An Epic Poem of the Banyanga (Part II) Zuiderkruis 3: 34- 35. Read the article: Mwendo de Zwoeger II

1958 “Grondrecht en grondbezit in Belgisch Congo.” (Zaire 12: 151-64. Read the article:Grondrecht in Congo

1958 “Kongolese dansen.” Band 17: 171-81. Read the article: Kongolese dansen

1958 With Jean Dufour. “Le régime foncier du Congo belge: étude ethnologique et juridique.” Zaire 12: 365-82.

1958 “Notes ethnographiques concernant le village Adzuani (Lugbara, Aru territoire).” See manuscripts on this website.

1958 “Les divisions du jour et de la nuit chez les Nyanga.” Aequatoria 21:134-38.

1958 “Rapport succinct… système foncier Zande, Mangbetu, Shi, etc. Commission Foncière. See manuscript on this website.

1959 “Le problème des terres du Congo dans ses rapports avec les systèmes fonciers traditionnels.” Synthèses 14: 78-90. Read the article:  Terres vacantes

1959 With Jean Dufour. Note de synthèse. Léopoldville: Land Tenure Commission.

1959 L’étude foncière du Mayumbe. Léopoldville: Land Tenure Commission.

1959 With Jean Dufour. Notes diverses. Léopoldville: Land Tenure Commission.

1960 “Note sur les recherches anthropologiques et ethnologiques urgentes au Congo belge.” Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research 1: 20-23. Read the article: Recherches anthropologiques

1961 “Politique africaine.” Antennes 1: 39-41.

1961 “Culture africaine.” Présence Universitaire 7: 56-66.

1962 Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. s.v. “Anzika.” “Cazembe.” “Chokwe.”

1962 Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Congo: The Peoples.” “Lega.” “Luba.” “Lunda.” Read the article: Congo the people

1962 Encyclopaedia Britannica, “West Central Africa.” Read the article: West Central Africa

1962 “Political Parties in the Republic of the Congo.” See manuscripts on this website.

1962 “Social Change in Africa.” Training Briefing, African Studies Program, Boston University. See manuscripts on this website.

1963  Encyclopedia Americana, 1963 ed. s.v. “Burundi.” “Ruanda-Urundi.” “Rwanda.”

1965 With Kahombo Mateene. “Un chant hunde.” Afrika und Ubersee 49: 157-69. Read the article: Hunde Chant

1966 “On the Concept of Tribe.” Civilisations 16: 500-515. Read the article: The Concept of Tribe

1967 “Effects on Lega Art of the Outlawing of the Bwami Association.” Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts 1:87-94;also 1970 ed Joseph Okpaku New African Literature and the Arts pp340-352. Read the article: Outlawing the Bwami 

1967 Articles on Central Africa in Encyclopedia Britannica. Read the articles: britannica 67; Britannica 1967

1968 “Land Tenure.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 8: 526-67. Read the article: Land tenure

1968 “Art As a Didactic Device in African Initiation Systems.” African Forum 3: 35-43. Read the article: Art as a Didactic Device

1972 “Bembe Art.” African Arts 5:12-19, 75-84. Bembe Art

1972 “Aspecten van de Culturele Anthropologie.” Publication of the Belgian National Radio and Television, 3d program, 4 December 1971.

1973 “Dr. Adriaan Claerhout spreekt met Prof. Daniel Biebuyck over Europese en Amerikaanse Ethnografische musea.” Publication of the Belgian National Radio and Television, 3d program, 6 December 1971.

1973 “Nyanga Circumcision Masks and Costumes.”African Arts 6: 20-25, 36-92. Read article: circumcision-masks

1974 “Mumbira: Musical Instrument of a Nyanga Initiation.” African Arts 7: 42-45, 63- 65, 96. Mumbira

1974 “Analyse contextuelle du rite mukumbi chez les Lega.” Africa-Tervuren 20:30-38. Read the article: mukumbi

1975 “Textual and Contextual Analysis in African Art Studies.” African Arts 8: 48-51, 90. Read the article: textual-contextual

1975 “Mukanda Initiation Rites.” See manuscripts on this website.

1976 “Sculpture from the Eastern Zaire Forest Regions.” African Arts 9: 8-15, 79-80. Read the article: Sculpture

1976 “The African Heroic Epic.” Journal of the Folklore Institute, 13: 5-36. Read the article: african-epic

1976 “Nyanga Cosmology and Space Categories.” Cultures et développement 8: 408-35. Read the article: cosmology

1976 “Sculpture from the Eastern Zaire Forest Regions: Mbole, Yela, and Pere.” African Arts 10, 1:54-61, 99-100. Read the article: mbole-yela-pere

1977 “Sculpture from the Eastern Zaire Forest Regions: Lengola, Metoko, and Komo.”  African Arts 10, 2:52-58. Read the article: metoko-lengola-komo

1979 “Stylistic Techniques and Formulary Devices in the Mwindo Epic.” Cultures et     développement 11: 551-600. Read the article: mwindo-epic-style

1979 “The Frog and Other Animals in Lega Art and Initiation.” Africa-Tervuren 25:76-84. Read the article: frog

1980 “The Shungwe Diadem of the Vira Chief.” Africa-Tervuren 26: 38-41. Read the article: shungwe

1981 “Buhabo Statues from the Benembaho (Bahoma).” Africa-Tervuren 27: 18-31. Read the article: buhabo

1982 “Lega Dress as Cultural Artifact.” African Arts 15, 3: 59-65, 92. Reid the article: lega-dress

1983 “African Art Studies Since 1957: Achievements and Directions.”African Studies Review 26, no. 3/4: 99-118. Read the article: african-art-studies

1987 “Royal Museum of Central Africa.” In Art Museums of the World, pp. 100-106. Westwood, Ct. Greenwood Press. Read the article: tervuren

1989 “Lega Culture Cluster.” See manuscripts on this website.

1992 “Mwindo, a Nyanga Epic Hero and Mubila, a Lega Epic Hero. A Comparison.” Cahiers de littérature orale 32, special Issue on Epic Literature edited by Nicole Revel: 39-62. Read the article: Mwindo

1992 Entries on Songye, Yaka, Luluwa, Lega in Kings of Africa. Eds Beumers and Kolosz, Maastricht

1996 “Visual Art in Central Africa. See manuscripts on this website.

1999 “The Words of the Land. Teaching through Proverbs.” Cahiers de littérature orale 45: 111-146. Read the article: words of the land

2004 “Sherungu. Un barde en pays nyanga,” Africultures 61 :121-131. Read the article: barde

2005 “Les forces spirituelles dans la culture lega.” Mutanga. Read the article: mutanga-journal

2008 “Enquête des traditions orales en pays nyanga (RDC).” Cahiers de littérature orale (Pratiques d’enquêtes ) 63-64: 241-251. Read the article: enquête

2010 “Sculptures do not speak. The Balega made them speak: Art, text and context.” Cahiers de littérature orale 67-68: 69-81. Read the article: Lega sculptures

2010 “Mukumo: Circumcision Rites Among the Nyanga.” See manuscripts on this website.

2017 “Mubila Epic, Introduction (in French), English Synopsis and French Summary.” See manuscripts on this website.

2018 “Lega Sculpture: Synthesis of the lutumbo lwa kindi initiation rituals among the Beiankuku.” See manuscripts on this website.

2018 “Field notes on the Hunde of the Masisi territoire.” See manuscripts on this website.

2019 “Sense and Nonsense in Understanding Lega Culture.” See manuscripts on this website