At the heart of 21st century discourses are questions of whose lives may matter more than others. While the debates themselves are not new,…
Consumer Appropriation and Corporate Acculturation: A Case Study in Cameroon and Guinea-Conakry This book examines the ‘glocalization’ – the adaptation of a global telecommunication…
Contemporary Perspectives The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top. This has occasioned a proliferation of…
An Ethnography on Strategies of Bodily Navigation of Male Refugees in Cape Town In spite of South Africa’s progressive constitution, citizen’s intolerance of non-citizens,…
The “Magritte Effect” Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn’t the flood of anthropological publications on the…
AnthropologyGender & Women's StudiesSocial Sciences
Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters
Producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town’s inner periphery, manoeuvre to…
Cannibalism as Food for Thought This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It…
The volume draws from René Devisch’s encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock,…
AnthropologySocial Sciences
Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation?
Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges…
Thoughts on Anthropology through the Work of Pamela Reynolds The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is a collection of essays on the work of…