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  1. Artistic activities and cultural activism as responses to HIV/AIDS in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Artistic activities and cultural activism as responses to HIV/AIDS in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susan Pietrzyk --- Department of Anthropology, United States
    Over the last two decades both the number and types of civil-society-led organisations involved in addressing HIV and AIDS have increased dramatically. In many cases, the work undertaken is thoughtfully researched, appropriately focused, and as a result produces positive outcomes...
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  2. Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town

    Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Grant A. Fore --- STEM Education Research Institute (SERI), Indiana University-Purdue University, U.S.A.
    The paper uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse and practices of development agents at Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the dynamic interrelation between faith and...
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  3. Human rights critique in post-colonial Africa: practices among Luo in Western Kenya

    Human rights critique in post-colonial Africa: practices among Luo in Western Kenya

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Steve Ouma Akoth --- Institute of Social Ministry, Tangaza University College, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya; Current address: Centre for Humanities Research, South Africa
    This paper is written at a time when post-colonial Kenya has largely embraced the language of rights as both a means and an end to organising twenty-first century states and societies. The idea of rights traverses the human rights discourse...
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  4. Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town

    Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Grant A. Fore --- STEM Education Research Institute (SERI), Indiana University-Purdue University, U.S.A.
    The paper uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse and practices of development agents at Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the dynamic interrelation between faith and...
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  5. Casts, bones and DNA: interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa

    Casts, bones and DNA: interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Katharina Schramm --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany
    This paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the “substances of indigeneity,” i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the...
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