Anthropology
Books
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2014, author(s)-editor(s) Munyaradzi Mawere,
Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya
African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through (...)
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2014, author(s)-editor(s) Ingrid Brudvig
This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local socio-economic factors that drive migration, relationships and conviviality, and how they are intertwined in the everyday narrative of “insiders” and “outsiders”. The Bellville central business district (...)
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2014, author(s)-editor(s) Crystal Powell
What does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Town’s Langa Township, being considered marginal is subject to a host of social, physical and sometimes materialistic qualifications - not least of which is owning a mobile phone. Through various presentations of unique aspects of township life revealed through ethnographic snapshots, this book reveals the complex realities of marginalization experienced by some residents in Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa. Mobile (...)
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2014, author(s)-editor(s) Enrico Ille,
Richard Rottenburg,
Sandra Calkins
This book explores the emergent character of social orders in Sudan and South Sudan. It provides vivid insights into multitudes of ordering practices and their complex negotiation. Recurring patterns of exclusion and ongoing struggles to reconfigure disadvantaged positions are investigated as are shifting borders, changing alliances and relationships with land and language.
The book takes a careful and close look at institutional arrangements that shape everyday life in the Sudans, probing (...)
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2014, author(s)-editor(s) Andrew D. Spiegel,
Jessica L. Dickson
In the 1980s, the University of Cape Town’s social anthropology department was predominantly oriented by an ’exposé’ style of critical scholarship. The enemy was the apartheid state, the ethical imperative was clear and a combative metaphor for doing research motivated the department. Andrew David Spiegel, known affectionately as ’Mugsy’ by his students and colleagues, has been a central, if understated, figure of this history and helped to frame the theoretical charge of a generation of students (...)
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2014, author(s)-editor(s) Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu
This book aims at educating parents generally but divorcing or divorced ones specifically. The instruction is that the future and interest of the children, whatever the cause of their separation (or calculations for the non-divorcing others), should always be the prime mover for whatever arrangement (or decision) they make. That the world would be a better place if people generally look at the larger picture of things; larger picture people usually being better suited to give children, (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Paul Nchoji Nkwi
The Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth, from 30 August-2 September 1999. The conference, themed "The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century", was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time, a long term (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Naffet Keita
Le livre présent part du constat que l’avènement de la téléphonie mobile au Mali a coïncidé avec la libéralisation économique, l’internationalisation des échanges et de nouveaux équilibres dans les espaces sociaux tels le marché de Bamako et dans les régions centre et nord du Mali, déjà soumis à des tensions et/ou des recompositions importantes. Celles-ci se sont traduites par l’accroissement des faits de mobilité tant à l’interne qu’à l’externe du pays (migrants et déplacés, etc.) ; l’apparition de (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Munyaradzi Mawere
One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance, nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most African museums were established during the 19th and 20th centuries as European imperialists were spreading their colonial tentacles across the continent. The attainment of political independence has done little to undo or correct the obnoxious situation. Most African countries continue to practice colonial (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Munyaradzi Mawere,
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment period, these knowledges have been supplanted by the Western enlightenment science or colonial science hegemony and arrogance such that in many cases they were relegated to the periphery. Some Euro-centric (...)
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