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Migrant arrival infrastructures and their impact on Zimbabweans’ mobility and integration in South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Shingirai Nyakabawu
This study argues that arrival infrastructures play a crucial role in shaping the mobility and integration of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. By examining the experiences of migrants with acce...
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Rethinking Khoe and San indigeneity, language and culture in Southern Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Loudine Philip
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Classify, exclude, police: urban lives in South Africa and Nigeria Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Yongjin Wang
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Richard Atimniraye Nyelade
The impact of globalisation on local communities is a widely debated topic in sociology and anthropology. This article explores the dynamics and statics of local communities in the context of globa...
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A meeting with gardenia: an ethnographic exploration of multispecies relationships and space construction in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 James Granelli
In an age of climate and ecological breakdown, questions of how we relate to the natural world and the more-than-human beings around us are more important than ever. This ethnography seeks to bring...
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Covid-19 pandemic and mobility strategies of Chadian roadside vendors in Kousseri, Cameroon Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Robi Layio
The movement of people between N’Djamena (Chad) and Kousseri (Cameroon) has drastically increased since the construction of the Nguéli Bridge linking the two cities in 1985. This massive movement o...
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Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-12-18
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 James Musonda
This article explores how Covid-19 regulations in hospitals and regarding funerals disrupted and limited the capacity of kin to care, and transformed the meanings of life and death, for Zambians. N...
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Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Xénia de Carvalho
Since 2019, I have been engaged in remote ethnography about the reconstruction of the beginning of the language and literacy policies developed by the Frelimo School in Bagamoyo (1970–1975), Tanzan...
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Doing anthropology in uncertain contexts: patchwork ethnography in Mozambique Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Maria Paula Meneses
Covid-19 posed significant challenges to anthropological research as quarantines, travel restrictions and physical distance measures were introduced. In the Mozambican context, however, the pandemi...
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Ethnography, calamities and war: Mozambique 2000 Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Fernando Florêncio
In this article I draw on personal experience to discuss the ways of doing ethnography in a context of crisis. In February 2000, when I started fieldwork for my PhD thesis in the central region of ...
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Introduction Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 José Adalima, Xénia de Carvalho, Fernando Florêncio, Elísio Jossias, Maria Paula Meneses
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Experiencing the uncertainty of development: ethnographic notes from central and northern Mozambique Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Jose Adalima, Elísio Jossias
In this paper, we critically evaluate the insertion of anthropologists in the field in two locations in central and northern Mozambique, focusing on the negotiation and production of ethnographic d...
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Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Fraser G. McNeill
This article offers an ethnographic account of Covid-19 infection in Venda, South Africa. During July 2021, a research interlocutor and I tested positive for the virus and embarked on a 10-day period of isolation together. During this time, we practiced steaming rituals (u aravhela) on a daily basis and observed several healing practices related to eating, drinking and observing space. For me, the
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Vacillating vaccines: responses to Covid-19 in the United States and South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Theodore Powers, Jimmy Pieterse
This article examines the internal pathways of disease transfer within two settler colonies, the United States and South Africa, whilst also considering points of transnational connection in the social, political, epidemiological, religious and cultural responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in these societies. Of particular interest in these case studies are the ways in which alternative responses to
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Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Samwel Moses Ntapanta
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Fraser G. McNeill
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Self in the world: connecting life’s extremes Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Detlev Krige
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Celebrating Alan Barnard (1949–2022): He’s in the Wind Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Julie Grant
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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The birth of Boererate: women and healing during the South African war Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Jeanie Blackbeard, Fraser G. McNeill
This article reinterprets historical works on the history of medicine in South Africa and how present-day Afrikaner home-based healing therapies known as Boererate engage with this history. By reinterpreting historical sources, we illustrate how Boer women in concentration camps during the South African War were waging an ideological war. We argue that there is a distinction between the creolised medicines
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Living museums in Namibia: between empowerment and exploitation Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Hana Horáková, Josefína Kufová, Nicola Raúl
This article examines the recent rise of living museums in postcolonial Namibia, one of the most rapidly increasing forms of cultural tourism. Living museums are designed and executed by minority communities that seek to reach socio-economic emancipation by making use of what they consider their unique culture. The article examines six such living museums that have been instituted in cooperation with
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Michael George Whisson (1937–2022) Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Robin Palmer, Chris de Wet
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Nimble-footed Zimbabwean migrants: (im)mobility and the porousness of borders between South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 national lockdown Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Mutsawashe Mutendi, Tamuka Chekero
This ethnographic study highlights the impact of Covid-19 border closures on the migration patterns of Zimbabwean cross-border migrants. Data in this study were collected using qualitative techniques, one-on-one telephonic interviews and social media platforms from 20 participants over a period of five months. The data were analysed using the theoretical framework of conviviality. Our findings indicate
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“Sex is sex, marriage is marriage”: infidelity amongst married women in Shamva, Zimbabwe Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Patience Chadambuka, André Pelser, Victor Muzvidziwa
Many African societies adhere to a strong patriarchal norm as regards sexual relations, one that is unforgiving of female infidelity yet tolerates men’s extramarital affairs and even incorporates these into culture. This study reveals that, contrary to traditional assumptions defining women as a passive and powerless second sex, married women in a specific African township redefine their sexuality
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Faith in flux: Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Josiah Taru
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Shabnam Shaik
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Covid and custom in rural South Africa: culture, healthcare and the state Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Lauren Culverwell
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Dominique Santos
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Correction Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-03-16
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Matthew Wingfield
Tracing the history of activism in post-apartheid South Africa from the Treatment Action Campaign to the Social Justice Coalition, amongst others, one is able to develop an account of various practices and strategies that have been utilised to leverage state resources and lobby support for various causes. This history of rights-based activism has provided various social movements and community-based
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uMama wekhaya: local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Zikhona N. Ngqula
This article provides a window into the lives of the residents of Agnes Rest, a rural village in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Using water infrastructures, I explore how two local terms umama wekhaya and abuntu babelungu, express local subjectivities created on the premise of an individual’s experience of water access and their associated roles. I argue that local subjectivities are important
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Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Alison Kuah
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Cape Town over four months, this article addresses the question of how African immigrant youth experience life and live as “citizens” in Cape Town. African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities. This article examines the ways youth activate citizenship and belonging through civic participation, often in the absence of formal
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Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa: Contested histories and current struggles Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Tim G.B. Hart
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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Nationalism and territoriality in Barue and Mozambique: Independence, belonging, contradiction Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Petr Skalník
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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From water to wine: Becoming middle class in Angola Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Shaheed Tayob
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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Correction Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-21
Spiegel, A.D. 2022. Review of A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa, edited by R.R. Grinker, S.C. Lubkemann, C.B. Steiner and E. Gonçalves. Anthropology Southern Africa 45 (2): 123–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2055589 Page 124, line 30 The name “Khaldun” should have been deleted from this sentence: To mention just a few from earlier periods than the past decade or two: whilst Ibn
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Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Sabine Klocke-Daffa
With the end of apartheid in Namibia, private insurance companies opened their product range to what they call the “black market.” The increased demand for social insurance is not only because of a lack of security and state-provided welfare programmes but also because of the attractiveness of the products: they allow for merging individual provision with social obligations. With rising incomes, life
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“Armed with faith”: church membership, Pentecostal beliefs and migrant belonging in Harare, Zimbabwe Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Rufaro Hamish Mushonga
This ethnographic study explores how church membership and Pentecostal beliefs afford Nigerian migrant traders living in Harare an opportunity to embed themselves within the spaces of Harare’s Downtown informal settlement, which are characterised by entrenched and heightened forms of exclusion and hostility. Their church membership and Pentecostal beliefs enable them to gain a voice, negotiate place
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“Lydiate is now our home of a sort”: perceptions of place amongst ageing first-generation Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Johannes Bhanye
The notion of “home” amongst the diaspora is complex, with some scholars asserting that home in the diaspora is not singular or exclusionary but that migrants are torn between multiple “homes.” Other scholars highlight that it is not always the case that migrants in the diaspora have a multiple, plurilocal, constructed perception of home. It can also happen that migrants in the diaspora maintain boundedness
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Reimagining money: Kenya in the digital finance revolution Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Detlev Krige
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Nationalism, politics and anthropology: A tale of two South Africans Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Robin Palmer
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Migrant labour after apartheid: The inside story Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Tarminder Kaur
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Women and peacebuilding in Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Ndiweteko Jennifer Nghishitende
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Challenges to the integration of the Platfontein San in South Africa between 1990 and 2003 Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Eldar Salakhetdinov
This article is based on a narrative case study that explores the controversy in the history surrounding the Platfontein San. During the South African border war, San soldiers joined the South African Defence Force in their fight against African liberation movements in Angola and Namibia. Shortly before Namibian independence, these soldiers and their families were evacuated to a military base in South
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Landscapes between then and now: recent histories in Southern African photography, performance and video art Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Jess Auerbach
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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A companion to the anthropology of Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Andrew D. Spiegel
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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Township economy: people, spaces, and practices Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 David B. Coplan
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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Healing knowledge in Atlantic Africa: medical encounters, 1500–1850 Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Hardlife Stephen Basure
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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A possible anthropology: methods for uneasy times Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Peter-Jazzy Ezeh
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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The biopolitical subject: alternative postcolonial entanglements in a global landscape Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Teresa Connor, Sethunya Mosime, Leah Junck, Hameedah Parker
Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2022)
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Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Amber Reed, Ziyanda Xaso
In March 2020, South Africa enacted one of the world’s most severe lockdowns to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Whilst this action received international praise, its implementation by the armed security forces in many ways mirrored colonial and apartheid-era controls on movement, such as violent policing and curfews. In this article, we explore former anti-apartheid activists’ experiences of the lockdown
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Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997 Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 C.S. (Kees) van der Waal
Several critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up to the closure of their department. The article uses a network approach to unravel how volkekundiges
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Modern family on the Zambian Copperbelt Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 James Musonda
The family model promoted amongst Zambian mineworkers since the colonial period was based on a male breadwinner and a female housewife. This article examines the family dynamics in a context in contemporary Zambia of growing employment precariousness, declining incomes for men and increased labour market participation for women. It shows that, though wives still publicly present their husbands as breadwinners
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Traditional authorities, legal power and land disputes in north-west Namibia Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Kana Miyamoto
This study considers the revitalisation of traditional authorities, a phenomenon found throughout modern Africa. It analyses and compares court cases involving land disputes amongst herders living in north-western Namibia. Since the 1990s, African nations have pursued land reform to stabilise and clarify the rights of land users in customary lands. Prior research indicates that traditional authorities
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Suspicious bodies: anti-citizens and biomedical anarchists in South Africa’s public health care system Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Kudakwashe Vanyoro
It has become “common sense” to assert that access to public health care services for foreign migrants is de facto exclusionary. Conceptual tools for assessing these experiences are relatively absent and limited to “medical xenophobia.” This article deploys suspicion as a heuristic to explore the practices that health care providers in South Africa’s public health care system adopt in reading black
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The contested lands of Laikipia: histories of claims and conflicts in a Kenyan landscape Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
(2022). The contested lands of Laikipia: histories of claims and conflicts in a Kenyan landscape. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 44-46.
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Sites of contestation: encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Anselmo Matusse
(2022). Sites of contestation: encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 46-48.
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Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Andrew Hartnack
(2022). Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 48-49.
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There used to be order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Allison Furniss
(2022). There used to be order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 50-52.
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Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900 Anthropology Southern Africa (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Tichaona Mazarire
(2022). Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 53-55.