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Introduction to Anthropology Southern Africa, special edition on ‘Debating Southern African Anthropology’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kees (C. S.) van der Waal --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South Africa Vivienne Ward --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaBy challenging anthropologists practising in different southern African contexts to engage in debate, we elicited a rich array of viewpoints and counter-challenges as we gathered articles for this special edition. In this introductory article we set the scene for the... -
Reproducing criticality: South African social-cultural anthropology's contemporary challenge—the UCT experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew D. Spiegel --- Department of Social Anthropology,For many who were drawn to the discipline during South Africa's apartheid years, social anthropology offered a means for a cohort of primarily middle class persons to crystallise an otherwise inchoate criticality about the regime, in large part by providing... -
The possibility of a critical anthropology after apartheid: relevance, intervention, politics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kelly Gillespie --- University of Pretoria, Anthropology and Archaeology, South Africa Bernard Dubbeld --- University of Pretoria, Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis paper, prompted by an Anthropology Southern Africa conference around the theme ‘Public Anthropology’, argues that any post-apartheid anthropology that abandons criticality as a core disciplinary principle risks dispelling any radical content that anthropology may have to offer South African...