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Title:Debating Southern African anthropology
Editors:Van der Waal, KeesISNI
Ward, Vivienne
De Jongh, MichaelISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Anthropology Southern Africa (ISSN 0258-0144)
Volume:30
Issue:3-4
Pages:67-142
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:anthropology
Abstract:This special issue highlights contributions to the emerging debate about the challenges to anthropology in postapartheid southern Africa. The papers focus on core issues in the theory and practice of anthropology. With one exception, they are the work of anthropologists living in South Africa. Contributions: Introduction (Kees (C.S.) van der Waal and Vivienne Ward) - Primordialist paranoia, essentialism and South African realities: participating and observing across the 'anthropological divide' (Michael de Jongh) - De-provincialising South African anthropology: on relevance, public culture & the citizen anthropologist (Heike Becker) - An appeal for principled symmetry: anthropologies in South Africa and elsewhere (Thomas G. Kirsch) - At home to the other: the racialising and deracialising of anthropological research in South Africa (Robin Palmer) - Building a teaching praxis in anthropology: critical pedagogy in action (Joy Owen) - Reproducing criticality: South African social-cultural anthropology's contemporary challenge, the UCT experience (Andrew D. Spiegel) - The possibility of a critical anthropology after apartheid: relevance, intervention, politics (Kelly Gillespie and Bernard Dubbeld) - Socio-economic rights and anthropology? The case of deaf people who use South African Sign Language (SASL) in a university setting (Marion Heap). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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