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Positioning children and institutions of childcare in contemporary Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Catrine ChristiansenCurrently more than half the population of Uganda is under 18 years — a demographic dispensation caused by civil war, poverty, high fertility rates, and the AIDS epidemic. Drawing upon ethnographic research in south-eastern Uganda, the study analyses the difficulties... -
The children left to stand alone
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sidsel RoalkvamDrawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in Seke, a semi-rural area outside Harare, Zimbabwe, this paper explores the social mechanism behind the seeming invisibility of children left on their own and how this form of 'invisibility' challenges established notions of childhood, parenthood,... -
In search of a face: Childbearing decisions among couples living with HIV from rural southern Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Belinda C Gombachika --- University of Oslo, Norway Heidi Fjeld --- University of Oslo, NorwayIn the context of increasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), the issue of childbearing among people living with HIV is important. The little that is known originates from either studies conducted before widespread availability of highly active ART or has... -
How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rachel Bray --- Centre for Social Science Research and Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper explores the nature and consequences of residential decision-making for women on treatment for AIDS illness in a poor urban settlement in South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a two-year period, it points to the subtle shifts... -
Widow ‘dispossession’ in northern Namibian inheritance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robert J. Gordon --- Department of Anthropology,This paper examines ‘asset stripping’ which is said to occur particularly in matrilineal societies when young widows are stripped of their late husband's possessions. Contrary to many scholars who see asset stripping as a recent phenomenon and who believe that... -
Beastly whiteness: Animal kinds and the social imagination in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- Dept of Social Anthropology,How do animals enter into the constitution of differences in human affairs? I address the question by showing how, in Zulu households, animals themselves are marked as beings with ethnic properties. If animals can be understood as being ethnically distinguishable,... -
“Slow marriage,” “fast bogadi”: change and continuity in marriage in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jacqueline Solway --- Department of International Development Studies and Department of Anthropology, CanadaClassic work on Tswana marriage emphasises that it is a process of becoming, involving a series of rituals and prestations characterised by a long period of socially productive ambiguity in which the status of the union, the spouses, their children... -
The materiality of marriage payments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIt is generally agreed that rates of marriage are declining in Southern Africa. It is also clear that for people who are wealthy enough to marry, the long-standing constitution of marriage as process is increasingly replaced by a making of... -
The struggle for marriage: elite and non-elite weddings in rural Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Pauli --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany Francois Dawids --- Master of the Post Office, NamibiaNamibian weddings have become lavish and expensive rituals. Recent studies have discussed how these marriage transformations are linked to late capitalism and the spread of modernisation ideologies. Much of this research concludes that marriage has become a middle class institution,... -
Marriage, kinship and childcare in the aftermath of AIDS: rethinking “orphanhood” in the South African lowveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Isak Niehaus --- Anthropology Division, United KingdomIn this article I consider the significance of marriage from the vantage point of children’s affiliation to domestic units during the era of South Africa’s AIDS pandemic. Drawing on multi-temporal fieldwork in Impalahoek, a village in the Bushbuckridge municipality of... -
Coalition formation, mate selection and pairing behaviour of the Crested Francolin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Johann H van Niekerk --- Department of Environmental Sciences, South AfricaTransect field observations were conducted on the behaviour of Crested Francolin Dendroperdix sephaena to describe male coalitions in the Borakalalo National Park, North West province, South Africa during May, August, October and December 2008, and again in July 2009. Crested... -
Gendered actual controlling shareholders and family business emotional attachment influences on business operational violations: A propensity score matching analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xiaoyu Liao --- , China Bei Lyu --- , China Jiayu Fan --- , ChinaThis study aimed to ascertain how gendered family emotional attachment of actual controlling shareholders influenced business violation and its boundary functions. Our study participants were 1 707 actual controlling shareholders of Chinese listed family companies. For the data analysis, we... -
Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ayan Salaad --- University of Southampton, UKThis article brings Yvonne Owuor’s 2019 novel The Dragonfly Sea into conversation with nine Banaadiri fishing poems called geeraarro, a form of classical Somali oral poetry in the maanso category. I explore the ways in which ideas of labour, kinship,... -
A meeting with gardenia: an ethnographic exploration of multispecies relationships and space construction in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: James Granelli --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaIn an age of climate and ecological breakdown, questions of how we relate to the natural world and the more-than-human beings around us are more important than ever. This ethnography seeks to bring these questions to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical... -
Wider family in post-privatisation Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: James Musonda --- University of Liège, BelgiumThis article traces the economic and social dynamics animating kin-like relations amongst workers on the Zambian Copperbelt, their implications in everyday life and broader conceptions of family they engender. The article argues that the ability of mineworkers’ families to cope... -
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Saana Hansen --- Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, FinlandThis article explores how Zimbabwe’s prolonged politico-economic crisis and large-scale migration to South Africa have impacted care practices surrounding transnational death. Focusing on the repatriation of dying and deceased injivas (low-income migrants from Matabeleland), it examines how return migrants and...