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Title

Challenges for anthropology in the 'African renaissance' : a southern African contribution / edited by Debie LeBeau and Robert J. Gordon.

Publication

Windhoek, Namibia : University of Namibia Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• LeBeau, Debie.
• Gordon, Robert J., 1947-
• Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa.
• University of Namibia. Dept. of Sociology.

Description

xiv, 317 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Publication ; no. 1

Uniform Title

Publication (Windhoek, Namibia) ; no. 1.

Subjects

• Africa, Southern > Social life and customs > Congresses
• Anthropology > Africa, Southern > Congresses

Note

• "Department of Sociology, University of Namibia."
• "AASA 2000 Conference on which this publication is based"--Cover p. [2].
• Contains papers from the AASA 2000 Conference.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Anthropology and the 'African renaissance': social crises and the potential for complex emergencies in North Eastern Zambia -- Rethinking anthropology in Africa in the 'African renaissance' -- A teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner -- 'Without culture there is no future': the performance of heritage in post-apartheid Northern Namibia -- Making and maintaining the tribe and the ingenuity of genealogy -- 'We want our own chief': San communities battle against their image -- Anthropology and African witchcraft: social 'strain-gauge', modernity and witchcraft violence in South Africa's far-north -- The prevention of disease in Africa: ethno- and biomedical approaches -- Is witchcraft real? The role of perceptions in health seeking behaviour -- Conflict between the living and the dead: the patrilineage versus the individual in the training of indigenous healers -- Identity, protest and healing: the multiple uses of marijuana in Rastafari -- Gender, tradition, sexual diversity and AIDS in postcolonial Southern Africa: some suggestions for research -- Sisters and their brothers: an examination of the traditional ritual and secular roles of makhadzi in Venda, Northern Province, South Africa -- Food security, social and gender relations in black South African households: ways of coping and survival -- Heads of households or simply breadwinners? a case study of married women in Masvingo, Zimbabwe -- Youth problems in Namibia -- Who ought to be involved in decision-making regarding development projects? Experiences from the Isithatha Agricultural Project -- Corporatism and the Namibian San -- The influence of culture in Zulu language development -- Teaching European language and culture against the background of 'African renaissance' -- Revisiting culture and traditions: a constitutional paradox for Southern Africans -- Anatomy of conflict and its resolution in the management of miombo woodlands in Zimbabwe -- 'How can the rain fall in this chaos?': myth and metaphor in representations of the North-west Namibian landscape -- The representation of social meaning by bureaucrats: removal of the disempowered from Willem Klopperville (1958-1965) -- Is it for real? Notes on the meanings and etymology of spaza in South African popular culture -- Unconquered territory: narrating the Caledon valley.

Call Number

Sc D 06-1541

ISBN

9991659420

LCCN

2003406631

OCLC

50987488

Title

Challenges for anthropology in the 'African renaissance' : a southern African contribution / edited by Debie LeBeau and Robert J. Gordon.

Imprint

Windhoek, Namibia : University of Namibia Press, c2002.

Series

Publication ; no. 1

Publication (Windhoek, Namibia) ; no. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

LeBeau, Debie.

Gordon, Robert J., 1947-

Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa.

University of Namibia. Dept. of Sociology.

Research Call Number

Sc D 06-1541