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Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies) by Issue Date
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(Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 1995)Species-specific rock paintings of freshwater mormyrid fish in central and eastern Zimbabwe and the south-eastern mountains of South Africa are interpreted in terms of San shamanism. Elements of mormyrid appearance and ...
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(Western Academic & Specialist Press, 2003)This paper introduces to the Before Farming readership a selection of 14 rock-art-centric papers arranged around three key human relationships. These comprise the relationships people have with other people (colonialism), ...
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(Western Academic & Specialist Press, 2003)Rock-art is a powerful and theoretically informed artefact that allows non-rock-art producing people an understanding of the worldview of the rock-artists. But the flow of information in such rock-art researches – ‘us’ ...
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(Western Academic & Specialist Press, 2003)The Keep River region has a complex body of engraved and painted rock-art, distinct from but with links to regions to the east, west and south. At least four major periods of figurative rock-art have been identified with ...
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(Chicago University Press, 2004)Recent archaeological research has identified a widespread southern African rock art tradition that materially affects the debate over what archaeology can tell us about prehistory in southern Africa. This tradition ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2005)Until recently, southern African rock art has been thought ‘San’ authored. But recent research reveals multiple rock art traditions. Khoekhoe herders produced finger-painted and rough-pecked geometric and ‘representational’ ...
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(African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2006)Post-conflict reconstruction in Africa has received a great deal of attention from scholars and policy-makers over the past decade, both because of the proportionally large number of conflicts on the continent, and ...
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(Forum Press, 2006)This is the text of an inaugural lecture as Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria, delivered on 19 October 2004. Several changes have been made ...
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(2007)Much recent writing in the social sciences - boosted by inter alia substantial funding programmes and valid questions concerning the relationship between identity politics, knowledge and power - have applauded the ...
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(Maney, 2007)What happens when we make gods out of ethical codes when conducting commercial archaeology?
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(South African Association of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 2007)Die Hananwa is 'n relatief selfversorgende gemeenskap van Tswana-Hurutshe herkoms wat in relatiewe afsondering bo-op Blouberg in die Limpopoprovinsie woonagtig is. As gevolg van hulle af-gesonderdheid is die gemeenskap ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2007-03)UFO beliefs exist around the world yet they have been almost exclusively analysed within the context of urban American society. This article seeks to understand the ways in which people from differing social and cultural ...
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(University of Sydney, 2007-03)In remote Aboriginal communities in Australia, researchers cast health beliefs and treatments as belonging to either an Aboriginal or biomedical system, which are considered to be irreconcilable and in conflict. Warlpiri ...
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(LexisNexis, 2007-09)Die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika waarborg gelykheid van mans en vrouens. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die huidige toedrag van sake in swart gemeenskappe in die lig van die tradisionele partriargale lewenswyse. ...
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(Boston University African Studies Center, 2008)No abstract available.
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(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2008-05)Drawing on material in the Wilson papers in the University of Cape Town archives, this article reviews the contribution Archie Mafeje made to Monica Wilson’s research project in Langa (Cape Town, South Africa) in the early ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2009)This paper presents an analysis of the faunal remains from three farmer or Late Iron Age sites in the Steelpoort River Valley, occupied c. AD 1700–1900 by Ndzundza Ndebele. The Ndzundza were forced, successively, to ...
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(Left Coast Press, 2009)What is heritage?—a pictograph of human figures and animal forms painted on a rock face?; a photograph of the same pictograph in a scientific journal?; the traditional songs, stories, and beliefs that still may be ...
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(Institute for Foreign and Comparaive Law, UNISA, 2009-03)This note is a lego-anthropological commentary on the Constitutional Court case Shilubana v Nwamitwa 2008 (9) BCLR 914 (CC). The authors assess the judgment in the light of the essential principles and practices governing ...
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