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Shoveling sand or changing the nation?: transformation activism in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Catherine Besteman --- Department of Anthropology, -
The tent versus lobola: marriage, monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rijk van Dijk --- African Studies Centre Leiden, The NetherlandsWhile it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa — including Botswana — weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to consumerist desires of style and glamour, much less is known about how such... -
Love matters: exploring conceptions of love in Rwanda and Swaziland and relationship to HIV and intimate partner violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Allison Ruark --- Department of Medicine, USA Erin Stern --- Department of Global Health and Development, UK Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane --- Institute for Health Measurement, Swaziland Marie Fidele Kakuze --- Independent Consultant, SwazilandHealth risks such as intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV infection often occur within intimate sexual relationships, yet the study of love and intimacy is largely absent from health research on African populations. This study explores how women and men... -
Of friends and kollegen: understanding male friendships in Swakopmund, Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jack Boulton --- , BelgiumThis article explores understandings of friendship between men in Swakopmund, Namibia. These friendships sat (sometimes uncomfortably) closely with notions of “being gay,” in that they were often companionate relationships of caring and intimacy that also involved sex and exchange. Yet... -
Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alice Aterianus-Owanga --- Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandDrawing on ethnographic research within the salsa, bachata and kizomba (SBK) scene of Cape Town, this article examines the values and narratives of personal development that Cape Town’s adepts of Afro-Latin dance elaborate around the emic notion of “connection.” I...