Anthropology Southern Africa is the single association of anthropologists in southern Africa, following a century (1903–2001) of disparate organizing, deeply entangled with political conflicts. Anthropology became a highly successful academic field in South Africa in the 1920s. The study of the former...
implementation of Public-Private Mix (PPM)-TB policy in India. Ethnographic research was conducted within a district in a Southern state of India over a 14 month period, combining participant observations, informal interactions and in-depth interviews with a wide range of respondents across public...
viewpoints. alan barnard is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include Research Practices in the Study of Kinship (with Anthony Good, 1984), Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa (1992), and, edited with Jonathan Spencer, Encyclopedia of Social and ...
Harri Englund is a Professor in Social Anthropology. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Southern and East Africa, primarily in Malawi but also in Mozambique and Zambia. His research interests range from the anthropology of law, human rights and morality to the study of religion and popular...
In South Africa after apartheid (James 2015), the would-be members of a new Black middle class took out credit to improve their position in society through university education, bridewealth payments, and mortgages. The expansion of lending thus ‘unleashed aspirations for upward mobility’ (James...
Salvadoran Migration to Southern California: Redefining El Hermano Lejano. Beth Baker-Cristales. 2004: New World Diasporas Series, 208 pp., 6 x 9, illus. Cloth, $59.95s (978-0- 8130-2761-6). Santería Healing: A Journey into the Afro-Cuban World of Divinities, Spirits, and Sorcery. ...
Despite (or because of) this rich cultural heritage, the Baka, and hunter-gatherers around the world, have consistently been forced into categories of ‘primitive’ and ‘uncultured’ by neighbouring agriculturalist communities, national governments and some international actors. In Africa, as a result...
In the paragraph titled Stretching, we can read: “Stretching or elongation of the clitoris and/or labia minora often referred to as elongation, has been documented in some areas, especially in southern Africa. (…) Labial stretching might be defined as a form of female genital mutilation ...
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