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Spirit and society: in defence of a critical anthropology of religious life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaAccording to recent criticisms, the critical anthropology of religious life in Africa, associated especially with the Comaroffs, has failed to take relations with invisible beings at face value. In this view, we should explore the social work that such relations... -
Milk and management: breastfeeding as a project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Miriam H.A. Waltz --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIdeas about motherhood among middle-class women in South Africa recently seem to have shifted toward more “intensive mothering,” partly enabled by class privilege resulting from highly unequal labour relations. In this context breastfeeding and other mothering practices are approached as... -
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,... -
Spirit and society: in defence of a critical anthropology of religious life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaAccording to recent criticisms, the critical anthropology of religious life in Africa, associated especially with the Comaroffs, has failed to take relations with invisible beings at face value. In this view, we should explore the social work that such relations...