Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2189461
Patience Chadambuka, A. Pelser, V. Muzvidziwa
Many African societies adhere to a strong patriarchal norm as regards sexual relations, one that is unforgiving of female infidelity yet tolerates men’s extramarital affairs and even incorporates these into culture. This study reveals that, contrary to traditional assumptions defining women as a passive and powerless second sex, married women in a specific African township redefine their sexuality in ways that defy accepted cultural norms. In-depth, qualitative interviews with a sample of six Zimbabwean women — all of whom were involved in extramarital affairs at the time of the study — suggest that these women devised their own means of resistance to defy socially accepted norms and values and to become active sexual actors outside the marital domain. Some of the women also gain much-needed self-esteem from their extramarital affairs in that they experience these relationships as more egalitarian than the situations prevailing within their marriages.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2158892
Jeanie Blackbeard, Fraser G. McNeill
This article reinterprets historical works on the history of medicine in South Africa and how present-day Afrikaner home-based healing therapies known as Boererate engage with this history. By reinterpreting historical sources, we illustrate how Boer women in concentration camps during the South African War were waging an ideological war. We argue that there is a distinction between the creolised medicines that Boer women took into the concentration camps and the body of knowledge — Boererate — that emerged from the camps after the women were released. The article brings archival research and interviews with interlocutors into conversation to show how a knowledge system like Boererate has persisted through time and become very popular in online forums and Facebook groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. The article is part of a wider project investigating Boererate in historical and diverse contemporary contexts.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2184706
R. Palmer, C. de Wet
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2178470
Dominique Santos
{"title":"Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa","authors":"Dominique Santos","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2178470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2178470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89799095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2178471
Lauren Culverwell
{"title":"Covid and custom in rural South Africa: culture, healthcare and the state","authors":"Lauren Culverwell","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2178471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2178471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91275021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2181833
S. Shaik
{"title":"Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer","authors":"S. Shaik","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2181833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2181833","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86316380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2181834
J. Taru
{"title":"Faith in flux: Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique","authors":"J. Taru","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2181834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2181834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75058753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2185270
Mutsawashe Mutendi, Tamuka Chekero
This ethnographic study highlights the impact of Covid-19 border closures on the migration patterns of Zimbabwean cross-border migrants. Data in this study were collected using qualitative techniques, one-on-one telephonic interviews and social media platforms from 20 participants over a period of five months. The data were analysed using the theoretical framework of conviviality. Our findings indicate that Zimbabwean cross-border migrants managed to cross into South Africa and back despite restrictions, which suggests that border closures had a limited impact on migration. By drawing on the narratives of Zimbabwean cross-border migrants, we illustrate how migrants, goods and remittances managed to move and how social networks such as hushamwari [friendship] played a significant role in facilitating illegal border jumping, revealing the permeability and porousness of state borders to many diverse types of incursions. The closure of national borders during lockdowns highlights the differences between migrants and border jumpers, the latter of which chose to smuggle goods in novel ways, even though they possess legal documentation and economic status.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2189443
H. Horáková, Josefína Kufová, Nicola Raúl
This article examines the recent rise of living museums in postcolonial Namibia, one of the most rapidly increasing forms of cultural tourism. Living museums are designed and executed by minority communities that seek to reach socio-economic emancipation by making use of what they consider their unique culture. The article examines six such living museums that have been instituted in cooperation with a Namibian–German non-governmental organisation. It approaches the living museum as a tourist bubble with an imagery that is built along the global–local nexus. The aim is to explore how the bubble is constructed and what meanings various stakeholders foster onto these cultural shows. The basic conceptual and methodological framework derives from the premises of a multi-sited ethnography. We argue that the tourist bubble constituting Namibia’s living museums enables the involved stakeholders to retain a myth of authentic Africa that is incommensurate with local performers’ everyday life. Yet a certain permeability of the bubble allows for the creative and diversified response of the local population.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2141810
Matt Wingfield
Tracing the history of activism in post-apartheid South Africa from the Treatment Action Campaign to the Social Justice Coalition, amongst others, one is able to develop an account of various practices and strategies that have been utilised to leverage state resources and lobby support for various causes. This history of rights-based activism has provided various social movements and community-based organisations with a framework with which to engage the state and more localised bureaucratic structures like the City of Cape Town. This article, which is based on two years of ethnographic research, looks at the activist practices and strategies employed by an environmental activist organisation called the PHA Campaign, which operates in a landscape that has been characterised as neoliberal and that explicitly caters to private developers. By looking at how this organisation leveraged the acute water scarcity that threatened the Western Cape from around 2016, or what has been called the “Day Zero” water crisis, this article applies Ahmann’s concept of “working time” to the South African activist landscape and examines how organisations can mobilise how a crisis is framed to their benefit.
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