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   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 Kingdom

   In 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...

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   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 Africa

   This 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...

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   Church rules? The lines of ordentlikheid among Stellenbosch Afrikaners

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Annika Teppo --- Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden

   Ethnographic 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...

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