This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905 2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the 136 images in this selection reveal an emotional engagement and aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of daily activities, they include depictions of everything from pot making, thatching, and cattle herding to village architecture, vernacular medicine, and rainmaking ceremonies. Visually...
This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905 2003). Taken between 1929...
This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners whose aspirations and values are nonetheless rooted in 'tradition'.
This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, danc...
Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa has been produced and contested.
Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform pol...
Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa has been produced and contested.
Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform pol...
an important and very interesting contribution to, first of all, critical and reflexive anthropology...Every chapter offers fresh insights into a key area of critical anthropology. Undoubtedly, the volume is very well organized, thoroughly substantiated, and interestingly written. I believe that the reviewed collection of articles is a distinguished, very useful, and sometimes provocative reading for all scholars concerned with a critical approach to social science and especially to social anthropology.Anthropos
The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic...
an important and very interesting contribution to, first of all, critical and reflexive anthropology...Every chapter offers fresh insights into a k...
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion--dubbed "banking the unbanked"--which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement.
Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans' access to credit is intimately bound up with identity, status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the economic...
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion--dubbed "banking the unbanked"--...
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion--dubbed -banking the unbanked---which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans' access to credit is intimately bound up with identity, status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the economic relations of debt...
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion--dubbed -banking the unbanked---whi...
Allison Bentley is a top-flight technology consultant working with a large, very old-fashioned accounting firm in Chicago. The fact that she's gay as well as non-American (she's Australian) is already a cause of friction with some of the partners and when she reports to the partners that they are technologically out of date and facing future difficulties staying in business, the anger she causes results in her being dismissed. But Allison joins up with a small, modern accounting firm in the city and the combination of the talents she and her new partners have leads to extraordinary growth,...
Allison Bentley is a top-flight technology consultant working with a large, very old-fashioned accounting firm in Chicago. The fact that she's gay as ...
