Browsing Research Publications (Anthropology and Sociology) by Title
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Orders of protection: Feminist lessons in anti-privatization and authoritarianism from South Africa
(Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2022)The feminist adage “the personal is political” is not ahistorical. It is being operationalized in a time when the relationship between the private and the public is undergoing historic transformation. Making privatized ... -
'Pale face'/ 'pointy face': SA criminology in denial
(Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2013)This paper responds to key aspects of Bill Dixon's article, Understanding 'Pointy Face': What is criminology for? It suggests that criminology should unambiguously be 'for' social justice in South Africa's transhistoric ... -
Perceptions of traditional health practitioners on violence in the Helderberg Municipal Area, Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)This study on perceptions of violence was conducted with 56 traditional health practitioners (diviners: amagrirha) in the Helderberg Municipal Area of Cape Town Metro. It forms a subsection of a larger study on African ... -
Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ... -
Pertinent African accounts of ambivalence and benefits in commuter marriages
(Cogent OA, 2022)The article attempts to unpack the ambivalence and benefits of commuter marriages. The study applied a qualitative paradigm, as well as a qualitative approach to investigate 17 participants between the ages of 30 to 52 ... -
Politicization and resistance in the Zimbabwean national army
(Oxford University Press, 2017)While the dominant discourse in Zimbabwe on and about soldiers is that they are perpetrators of political violence, this does not always reflect the lived experiences of soldiers who joined the army in post-independence ... -
The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the ... -
Politics, privileges, and loyalty in the Zimbabwe national army
(African Studies Association, 2017)In postcolonial Africa, the military has become an actor in politics, often in ways that can be described as unprofessional. This paper focuses on the manner in which the Zimbabwean National Army (ZNA) has become heavily ... -
Rape culture: Sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually diverse relationships
(SAGE Publications, 2022)South African studies on rape culture have examined this issue in relation to heterosexuality. They demonstrate how toxic masculinity exercises sexual power by victimizing women and girls. However, little is known about ... -
Reflections on the passing of Prof Bongani Mayosi: Universities and the burden of history
(SUN journals, 2018)Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Prof Bongani Mayosi. We begin by acknowledging that the condition of depression stalks societies, it silently chips away at the soul and identity of an individual. And, when tragedy ... -
Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic– activist interventions engage ... -
Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2018)Because plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature since 2000 that ... -
Revitalizing higher education in Africa: a review of health research (in social science) in African universities
(IJRDO, 2017)What is the agenda for health research in Social Sciences in African Universities? To what extent has university led research in the area of health revitalized higher education in Africa? This paper examines through a ... -
Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa: Cultural competence, lay-beliefs in narratives of diabetes among the rural poor in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
(CODESRIA, 2017)Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa have been well described; yet, they remain relatively of less concern among many issues in health and health care in Africa. The disparities have been documented ... -
Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This article engages with the concept of authenticity as deployed in anthropology. The first section critiques authenticity as a simple reference to cultural purity, a traditional isomorphism or historical verisimilitude ... -
The social act of exchange in power relations: The study of the phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the weighbridges in Zambia
(CODESRIA, 2017)This article examines the widely practiced phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the Weighbridges (WBs) in Zambia. The commonly held understanding of Nichekeleko by the Zambian people is that, it is corruption; ranging from ... -
South Africa's May 1968: decolonising institutions and minds
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Throughout 2015 students at South African universities rose up in a mass revolt. They made their voices heard from their campuses, from the streets, from the grounds of Parliament in Cape Town, and the lawns of the Union ... -
South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies?
(American Anthropological Association, 2015)A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology’s South African trajectories. This was ... -
Southern African Lesbian and Bisexual Women Responses to Symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Infections
(Archives of Sexual Behavior volume, 2020)Sexually transmitted infection (STI) in lesbian and bisexual women is a relatively unexplored topic, particularly for women from low- and middle-income countries. Despite perceptions that women who have sex with women (WSW) ... -
Swearing at plants: A flash ethnography from Namaqualand
(José Frantz, 2021)In November 2018 we are at Willem’s veepos (stockpost) halfway between Paulshoek and Leliefontein in the Kamiesberg mountains. It is early summer and the scarlet red milkweed locusts (Phymateus morbilossus) have begun ...