Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies) by Subject "Africa"

Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies) by Subject "Africa"

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  • “An African view” : the photography of Denise Scott Brown 
    Murray, Noeleen; Josephy, Svea (Wiley, 2024-01)
    This article develops on the plenary paper we presented for the second Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium (MoHoA), held at the Bartlett School of Architecture(UCL) October 26–28, 2022. At the first MOHoA Symposium ...
  • The future of archaeology in Africa 
    Pikirayi, Innocent (Antiquity Publications, 2015-06)
    The 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, and the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists were hosted by the University of theWitwatersrand, ...
  • Glass beads, markers of ancient trade in Sub-Saharan Africa : methodology, state of the art and perspectives 
    Koleini, Farahnaz; Colomban, Philippe; Pikirayi, Innocent; Prinsloo, Linda C. (MDPI Publishing, 2019-08-06)
    Glass beads have been produced and traded for millennia all over the world for use as everyday items of adornment, ceremonial costumes or objects of barter. The preservation of glass beads is good and large hoards have ...
  • The Kampala Convention and challenges to geopolitical security 
    Bamidele, Seun; Pikirayi, Innocent (Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, 2023-09)
    The AU Kampala Convention aims to ensure that the states that have signed the treaty protect and assist internally displaced persons (IDPs) in their regions to establish geopolitical security, which is threatened by the ...
  • The myth of being modern : digital machines and the loss of discovery 
    Smuts, Carson (Wiley, 2024-01)
    ‘Digitization’ is a logical operation that deconstructs information and transforms it into digits, rendering it a logical construct. Digital operations are fast, infinitely replicable, objective, and absolute. But digitization ...
  • Playing the waiting game : the changing nature of companionate marriage at a small Pentecostal charismatic church in Pretoria, South Africa 
    Pieterse, Jimmy (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2021)
    This article focuses on the ways in which a group of mostly gay, Afrikaans-speaking Christians interpret, appropriate, and deploy the institution of marriage at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church in Pretoria. In so ...
  • Reconstructing prehistoric African population structure 
    Skoglund, Pontus; Thompson, Jessica C.; Prendergast, Mary E.; Mittnik, Alissa; Sirak, Kendra; Hajdinjak, Mateja; Salie, Tasneem; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Peltzer, Alexander; Heinze, Anja; Olalde, Iñigo; Ferry, Matthew; Harney, Eadaoin; Michel, Megan; Stewardson, Kristin; Cerezo-Román, Jessica I.; Chiumia, Chrissy; Crowther, Alison; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth; Gidna, Agness O.; Grillo, Katherine M.; Helenius, I. Taneli; Hellenthal, Garrett; Helm, Richard; Horton, Mark; López, Saioa; Mabulla, Audax Z.P.; Parkington, John; Shipton, Ceri; Thomas, Mark G.; Tibesasa, Ruth; Welling, Menno; Hayes, Vanessa M.; Kennett, Douglas J.; Ramesar, Raj; Meyer, Matthias; Pääbo, Svante; Patterson, Nick; Morris, Alan G.; Boivin, Nicole; Pinhasi, Ron; Krause, Johannes; Reich, David (Elsevier, 2017-09)
    We assembled genome-wide data from 16 prehistoric Africans. We show that the anciently divergent lineage that comprises the primary ancestry of the southern African San had a wider distribution in the past, contributing ...