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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 ... -
Traditional health practitioners’ perceptions, herbal treatment and management of HIV and related opportunistic infections
(BMC, 2014)In South Africa, traditional health practitioners’ (THPs) explanatory frameworks concerning illness aetiologies are much researched. However there is a gap in the literature on how THPs understand HIV-related opportunistic ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 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 ... -
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 ... -
The use of heroism in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) intra-party factional dynamics
(University of Pretoria, 2017)Much of what we know about Zimbabwe's liberation war heroes and heroines is associated with the Zimbabwe African Notional Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)'s recognition of individuals who defended its hold on power. However, ... -
'We can be united, but we are different': discourse of difference in postcolonial Namibia
(Forum Press, 2010)Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals ... -
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 ... -
“Youth speaking truth to power”: Intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
(Springer, 2022)This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in campaigns to decolonize public space through removing colonial monuments ...