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Just living: genealogic, honesty and the politics of apartheid time
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kathleen Lorne McDougall --- Department of Anthropology, South Africa“We were just living,” I was told of growing up an Afrikaner as apartheid was born. Is it possible for living at this time to be anything but political? To say “we were just living” of being an Afrikaner at... -
Warriors of the rainbow nation? South African rugby after apartheid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Isak Niehaus --- Department of Social Anthropology, United KingdomIn this article I seek to account for the special appeal of rugby to white, particularly Afrikaner, men in South Africa, by treating rugby as a social phenomenon. I suggest that at a metaphorical level formulaic elements of the sport... -
Exercise in futility or dawn of Afrikaner self-determination: an exploratory ethno-historical investigation of Orania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: FC de Beer --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaDue to their ethnic diversity nation states have the arduous task of accommodating various identity conscious groups within their boundaries. Nation-building programmes and strategies are employed mostly to unite the heterogeneous populations of nation states, as is currently also being... -
‘Sick’ with Child
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nina Botha --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Following a discursive approach, this paper introduces a school intended for sick learners; one that is regarded as an institution that promotes good mothering, and where the attending girls are cured of being ‘sick’ with child. The paper aims to... -
“Broederbande” [brotherly bonds]: Afrikaner nationalist masculinity and African sexuality in the writings of Werner Eiselen's students, Stellenbosch University, 1930–1936
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Bank --- History Department, South AfricaThe importance of Willi Werner Max Eiselen (1899–1977) as the lecturer, supervisor and mentor of the first generation of volkekundiges at Stellenbosch University has been greatly underestimated. He supervised no fewer than 11 MA and doctoral theses in this field... -
Fathering volkekunde: race and culture in the ethnological writings of Werner Eiselen, Stellenbosch University, 1926–1936
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Bank --- History Department, South AfricaWerner Willi Max Eiselen (1899–1977) has been celebrated for having consolidated the liberal functionalist school of social anthropology in South Africa. In the standard androcentric narrative, David Hammond-Tooke (1997) argues that during his decade-long tenure as head of “Bantology” at... -
Long walk from volkekunde to anthropology: reflections on representing the human in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper stems from a seminar that the author gave at his retirement from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University earlier in 2015. It details his long personal, political and intellectual journey from volkekunde to social... -
Church rules? The lines of ordentlikheid among Stellenbosch Afrikaners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Annika Teppo --- Nordic Africa Institute, SwedenEthnographic accounts of South African moral codes have mostly focused on so-called black and coloured areas, while the ideals and practices of white people have remained largely invisible and undiscussed. In the post-apartheid era, Afrikaners’ everyday religious practices as well... -
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaSeveral critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up... -
The birth of Boererate: women and healing during the South African war
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jeanie Blackbeard --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Fraser G. McNeill --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis article reinterprets historical works on the history of medicine in South Africa and how present-day Afrikaner home-based healing therapies known as Boererate engage with this history. By reinterpreting historical sources, we illustrate how Boer women in concentration camps during...