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   “Broederbande” [brotherly bonds]: Afrikaner nationalist masculinity and African sexuality in the writings of Werner Eiselen's students, Stellenbosch University, 1930–1936

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Bank --- History Department, South Africa

   The importance of Willi Werner Max Eiselen (1899–1977) as the lecturer, supervisor and mentor of the first generation of volkekundiges at Stellenbosch University has been greatly underestimated. He supervised no fewer than 11 MA and doctoral theses in this field...

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   Fathering volkekunde: race and culture in the ethnological writings of Werner Eiselen, Stellenbosch University, 1926–1936

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Bank --- History Department, South Africa

   Werner Willi Max Eiselen (1899–1977) has been celebrated for having consolidated the liberal functionalist school of social anthropology in South Africa. In the standard androcentric narrative, David Hammond-Tooke (1997) argues that during his decade-long tenure as head of “Bantology” at...

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   Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann from Leipzig to Potchefstroom University: scholarly committed, ethically ambivalent

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: N.S. (Fanie) Jansen van Rensburg --- Social Anthropology, School of Social and Government Studies, South Africa

   While Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann, Potchefstroom's first volkekunde [ethnology] professor, worked and associated with well-known and ardent supporters of the Nazi government in Germany, his German colleagues critiqued his lukewarm commitment to Nazism. Later, this political ambivalence also marked his time...

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   Long walk from volkekunde to anthropology: reflections on representing the human in South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South Africa

   This paper stems from a seminar that the author gave at his retirement from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University earlier in 2015. It details his long personal, political and intellectual journey from volkekunde to social...

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   Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa

   Several critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up...

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