Search Results - "Anthropology Southern Africa"

Wider family in post-privatisation Zambia by Musonda, James

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Dear Mr Sobukwe: examining Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s pan-African vision and how it has influenced youth movements in South Africa today by Rodwell, Karabo-Maya

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Contested landscapes: fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania by Ntapanta, Samwel Moses

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Hunting the hippo: a brief history of wildlife hunting and the reconfiguration of animal-human relations in Namibia's Zambezi region by Vehrs, Hauke-Peter

“…The Zambezi region in north-eastern Namibia is located at the centre of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), an area that is…”
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Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895-1959) by Lacan, Léa

“…This article investigates the problem of the tsetse fly and the trypanosomiasis disease it conveys as a transforming multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia…”
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The beast that never forgot? Baboon conservation and the role of multispecies history by Swart, Sandra

“…History and culture were long seen as definitionally human. As other distinctive traits that once defined our species as unique disappeared, at least we still…”
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Wildlife corridors in a Southern African conservation landscape: the political ecology of multispecies mobilities along the arteries of anthropogenic conservation by Bollig, Michael

“…The decline of biodiversity is a key topic in public discussions around the globe. These debates have triggered massive efforts to increase protected areas and…”
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Crossing Etosha: a history of donkeys in Namibia's central north by Lenggenhager, Luregn, Miescher, Giorgio, Nghitevelekwa, Romie, Akawa, Martha

“…Donkeys are a common sight in Namibia's central north and play an important albeit contested role in rural society and economy. Historically, they were one of…”
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Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities by Alexiou, Paula, Brekl, Julia, Köhler, Emilie, van Engelen, Wisse

“…Multispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the…”
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The making, unmaking and adaptation of Mayeyi multispecies entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti wetlands: eighteenth century to 1990 by Lavelle, Jessica-Jane

“…The Kwando-Linyanti wetlands of Namibia are known for their rivers, floodplains and woodlands with abundant wildlife and a diversity of birds and fish. Within…”
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Introduction: Multispecies encounters in conservation landscapes in Southern Africa by Lacan, Léa, Vehrs, Hauke-Peter, Bollig, Michael

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Cultivation of honeybush (Cyclopia spp.) in neo-colonial and multispecies landscapes of South Africa by Ndwandwe, Sthembile, Juba, Roderick, Sephton, Matthew

“…The indigenous wild plants of Southern Africa are intertwined with human cultures, histories and livelihoods. By focusing on commercial cultivation of a wild…”
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"We have that connection, we have love; we take wildlife as gifts from our ancestors": relations between antelopes and Khwe in Namibia's Bwabwata National Park by Nghitevelekwa, Romie, Lendelvo, Selma, Nakanyete, Fenny Ndapewa, Likuwa, Kletus, Matengu, Kenneth, Mushavanga, David

“…Wildlife plays significant roles in many societies that go beyond its ecological importance and economic rationale associated with conservation. This article…”
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Conclusion: Situating multispecies relations in Southern Africa in their local historical and political contexts by Vehrs, Hauke-Peter, Lacan, Léa, Bollig, Michael

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Tragedy, trauma and infinite possibility by Shabangu, Nokwanda Zakiyyah

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Of vaccines, biopower, subjects and governmentality: an ethnographic enquiry into the Zimbabwean Covid-19 vaccination drive by Moyo, Talent

“…The article highlights the politics of the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Zimbabwe. It interrogates questions of individual agency and institutional power in…”
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Beyond the "single story" of vaccine hesitancy: "studying up" a public health response to vaccine-associated polio in South Africa by Kekana, Lehlohonolo

“…Vaccine hesitancy is a widely noted challenge in the struggle against communicable diseases. This was clearly demonstrated in the Covid-19 vaccine drives in…”
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Continuity and discontinuity of rituals: Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Africa by Botes, Tamia, Ngqula, Zikhona, Rampeta, Bopane, Baloyi, Thulani, Penda, Chanda

“…The onset of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in late 2019 gave way to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that changed the world. These changes impacted many spheres of…”
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Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa by McNeill, Fraser G.

“…This article offers an ethnographic account of Covid-19 infection in Venda, South Africa. During July 2021, a research interlocutor and I tested positive for…”
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When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia by Musonda, James

“…This article explores how Covid-19 regulations in hospitals and regarding funerals disrupted and limited the capacity of kin to care, and transformed the…”
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