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  1. Exclusivity, hybridity and community: negotiating place, ethnicity and South African realities

    Exclusivity, hybridity and community: negotiating place, ethnicity and South African realities

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael de Jongh --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,
    Living on a tract of land in the Soutpansberg allocated to them in 1888 by President Paul Kruger for ‘services rendered’ to the erstwhile Transvaal Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), is the hybrid and largely exclusive Buys community. As descendants of Jean...
  2. Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s <em>Dust</em>

    Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Esther K. Mbithi --- , Kenya Julia Njeri Karumba --- , Kenya
    Launched around the time Kenya was marking fifty years of independence, Yvonne Owuor’s Dust has been described as a ‘cultural inheritance.’ It portrays a collection of colourful characters who laugh at themselves in their search for some sense of belonging...
  3. “Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below

    “Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rafael Verbuyst --- University of Gent, Belgium
    Authenticity is a longstanding concern in Khoisan Studies. Most scholarship has examined how stereotypical, essentialist and static notions of “authentic” Khoisan identity and culture are habitually reproduced and demanded of the Khoisan for economic or political gain. Recent work instead...