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An assessment of the nkacha net fishery of Lake Malombe, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: OLF Weyl KR Mwakiyongo DS MandereSince the early 1990s the fishery of Lake Malombe, Malawi, has been dominated by haplochromine cichlids which are mainly harvested with a small-scale purse seine called an nkacha net. The annual landings from the fishery declined from 9 500 tons... -
Waiting in liminal space: Migrants' queuing for Home Affairs in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rebecca Sutton --- Faculty of Law, Canada Darshan Vigneswaran --- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany Harry Wels --- Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam, The NetherlandsWaiting is a common feature of everyday encounters between individuals and organisations. Government officials and private sector workers make us wait for decisions, wait for services and sometimes, simply wait our turn. Yet, little attention has been devoted to theorising... -
The liminality of kidney failure in South African state hospitals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Diana Gibson --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology,Experiences of patients attempting to gain access to dialysis in state health services in the Western Cape provide examples that illustrate the usefulness of Turner's work on liminality in relation to the South African healthcare system. The ritualised routines of... -
The politics of the liminal and the liminoid in transfrontier conservation in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Marja Spierenburg --- Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The NetherlandsNature conservation in South(ern) Africa was for a long time dominated by white males and funded by a white elite. In postapartheid South Africa, government and conservation organisations have attempted to transform the sector by promoting the idea that local... -
Features of Turner syndrome in patients managed at the adult endocrinology clinic, Steve Biko Academic Hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: M. Noeth --- University of Pretoria, South Africa T. Kemp --- University of Pretoria, South Africa T. Botha --- University of Pretoria, South Africa