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Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used to manage High Blood Pressure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bitterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2016)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The aim of this study was to identify and document medicinal plants used to manage High Blood Pressure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bitterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
METHODS: ...
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 ...
'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 ...
Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
(Routledge, 2016)
South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial
feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter
in an ethnographic study ...
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research
questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa constructions of masculinity. ...
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 ...
Health inequality in South Africa: a systematic review
(CODESRIA, 2015)
This study presents a review of key empirical studies on health inequalities in South Africa with the aim of contributing to a comparative examination of social inequalities in health across different countries in Europe ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ...
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 ...
With shouts of Afrika!’: The 1952 textile strike at good hope textiles, King William's town
(Social Dynamics, 1990)
This paper, through a detailed examination of one of the biggest and most significant strikes in the East London region, suggests its importance lies both in the events and processes of the strike itself, and in its longer ...