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Post-mortem examination and sampling of African flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) under field conditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: John E Cooper --- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kenya Amy E Deacon --- Centre for Biological Diversity, UK Thomas Nyariki --- African Union–Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, KenyaRecent largely unexplained deaths in African flamingos have prompted the need for standard, reproducible methods for the post-mortem examination of these birds, for the taking of samples and for the recording of findings. Here we describe suitable techniques and present... -
Beyond ethical imperatives in South African anthropology: morally repugnant and unlikeable subjects
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ilana van Wyk --- Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), Upper Campus, Humanities Graduate Building, 4 Floor, University of Cape Town, South AfricaIn this article, I argue that anthropologists' dislike of their subjects in the field poses both epistemological and ethical questions that go beyond concerns about harming or exploiting those we study, about maintaining human relationships, or about the self-reflexivity and... -
Reflections on the ethical dilemmas that arise for anthropologists conducting fieldwork on the provision of sexuality education in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nolwazi Mkhwanazi --- Department of Social Anthropology,The revised ethical guidelines and principles of conduct for anthropologists in Southern Africa offer suggestions for the anthropologist's relations with and responsibility to research participants. Reflecting on the provision of sexuality education, I draw critical attention to the premises that... -
Fieldwork in shared spaces: positionality, power and ethics of citizen anthropologists in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Emile Boonzaier --- Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Joy Owen --- Dept. Anthropology, South AfricaThe paper reflects on the ethical complexities of fieldwork ‘at home’ in Cape Town, South Africa and Namibia. It draws on Cheater's (1987) idea of the ‘citizen anthropologist’ to consider the obligations of resident anthropologists to the subjects of their... -
An exposé ethnography of Zimbabwe's internally displaced ex-farm workers: Practical and ethical dilemmas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Hartnack --- Department of Anthropology,From 2000 onwards, Zimbabwe's often violent land invasions displaced at least 500 000 farm workers from white-owned commercial farms across the country. While studies subsequently conducted on the land invasions tended to focus on their impact on farm workers who... -
Beyond ethical imperatives in South African anthropology: morally repugnant and unlikeable subjects
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ilana van Wyk --- Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), South AfricaIn this article, I argue that anthropologists' dislike of their subjects in the field poses both epistemological and ethical questions that go beyond concerns about harming or exploiting those we study, about maintaining human relationships, or about the self-reflexivity and... -
Conducting anthropological fieldwork in northern Ghana: emerging ethical dilemmas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Saibu Mutaru --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper discusses two ethical dilemmas that I encountered when doing fieldwork on so-called witch camps in northern Ghana, places of protection under the auspices of an earth priest or chief for women who have been accused of witchcraft and... -
Fieldwork as performance: being ethnographic in film-making
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Koch --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, GermanyThis paper examines the use of the visual medium of collaborative ethnographic film-making as a fieldwork method in anthropology. Focusing on practices of filming, I adapt Richard Schechner’s ideas of performance processes and relational quadrilogues to move beyond the dichotomy... -
Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Motsaathebe Serekoane --- , South Africa Lochner Marais --- , South Africa Michael Pienaar --- , South Africa Carla Sharp --- , South Africa Jan Cloete --- , South Africa Liezel Blomerus --- , South AfricaThe declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March, 2020, and the disaster management regulations implemented in reply to it had enormous ramifications on ethnographic fieldwork. This situation presented an opportunity to reconsider the methodology used in a... -
Ethnography, calamities and war: Mozambique 2000
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Fernando Florêncio --- University of Coimbra, PortugalIn this article I draw on personal experience to discuss the ways of doing ethnography in a context of crisis. In February 2000, when I started fieldwork for my PhD thesis in the central region of Mozambique, the country was...