Browsing Anthropology and Archaeology by Title

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  • 32 Battalion : ex-combatants' reconstruction of livelihoods since 1993 
    Mendes, Bernardete Chavonga (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    This research investigates the ways in which Angolan ex-combatants of 32 Battalion have been making a living since the disbandment of the unit in 1993. Moreover, it seeks to understand the reasons behind the ex-combatants’ ...
  • 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest 
    Shipton, Ceri; Roberts, Patrick; Archer, Will; Armitage, Simon J.; Bita, Caesar; Blinkhorn, James; Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin; Crowther, Alison; Curtis, Richard; D'Errico, Francesco; Douka, Katerina; Faulkner, Patrick; Groucutt, Huw S.; Helm, Richard; Herries, Andy I. R; Jembe, Severinus; Prendergast, Mary E.; Rowson, Ben; Tengeza, Amini; Tibesasa, Ruth; White, Tom S.; Petraglia, Michael D.; Boivin, Nicole (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-05-09)
    The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently ...
  • The Acheulean in South Africa, with announcement of a new site (Penhill Farm) in the lower Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa 
    Lotter, Matt Geoffrey; Kuman, Kathleen (Elsevier, 2017-10)
    Our understanding of the South African Acheulean is heavily biased towards sites located in the interior of the country, namely in the Cradle of Humankind and those located along the Vaal and Orange Rivers. Although these ...
  • An actor centred approach towards an understanding of ecotourism : the case of Maasai Mara 
    Chepkwony, Irene Chebet (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    This study falls within the field of ecotourism. Ecotourism brings together natural resource conservation, community participation and sustainable development. To achieve this, there is a need for cooperation between the ...
  • Adaptation to Climate change in the Nkhota-kota district of Malawi 
    Nyirongo, Chifwiri N. (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Climate change is the noticed change in climate patterns in the world, drawing from various weather patterns taken across the world. This study set out to look at how rural farming communities are adapting to climate change ...
  • African transnational student mobility : a case study of Malawian students at selected South African universities 
    Magaba, Pemphero Theodora (University of Pretoria, 2022)
    This study focused on understanding the contemporary migration of Malawian transnational students to South Africa and their economic and sociocultural experiences in selected South African universities. It was motivated ...
  • “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 ...
  • African women in a western workplace : an ethnographic case study 
    Schoeman, Martie (University of Pretoria, 2006-07-21)
    This study contributes to the limited academic knowledge (particularly anthropological knowledge) available on the working behaviour of black women workers. The study focuses on how black women workers perceive and experience ...
  • Africans in the South African War (1899-1902) : an Archaeological research study of an African concentration camp 
    Verkerk, Domonique-Marie (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    The South African War (1899-1902) was ostensibly a “White man’s war” between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics, the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and the Orange Free State, but both sides involved Africans in the ...
  • AFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroads 
    Hart, Keith (American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2018)
    I imagine that most anthropologists greeted the crash of September 2008 with a measure of schadenfreude, tempered in many cases by economic pain and anxiety. I retired from the British university system in that month and ...
  • An ethnography of the Mandela Peace Park senior citizens food garden in Mamelodi Township Tshwane : a social critique of the economism in contemporary urban agriculture policies and projects 
    Phiri, Olipa (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    This dissertation examines one community garden situated in Mamelodi in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Using qualitative research methods, including participant observation and interviews, the dissertation ...
  • An investigation of the material culture from five middle iron age sites in the Limpopo valley 
    Lippert, Belinda Leigh (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The rise of complex societies in the Limpopo Valley has received much attention over the years. The development and functioning of socio-political centres, such as Mapungubwe, has been the chief focus. Mapungubwe elite are ...
  • The anthropology of money and finance : between ethnography and world history 
    Hart, Keith; Ortiz, Horacio (Annual Reviews, 2014)
    We review here recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings and prospects, while referring back to the discipline‘s founders a century ago. We take our departure ...
  • The archaeobotany of Mutamba, a thirteenth century Mapungubwe settlement in northern South Africa 
    Steyn, Bianca (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The focus of this research is on Mutamba, a 13th century Middle Iron Age (MIA) settlement situated in the Soutpansberg, South Africa and is the first archaeobotanical study of a MIA settlement. Many communities of this ...
  • The Archaeofauna from Xaro on the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana 
    Van Zyl, Wynand J.; Badenhorst, Shaw; Taljaard, Elene; Denbow, James R.; Wilmsen, Edwin N. (Transvaal Museum, 2013-02)
    We report on the fauna from the sites of Xaro 1 and Xaro 2 located on the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana. Carbon isotopes from two human graves at Xaro Lodge located approximately 500 m south of Xaro 1 suggest ...
  • An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of 20th Century European Mining Activities on the Farm Berkenrode in the Maremani Nature Reserve, Musina, Limpopo, South Africa. 
    Joubert, Michelle (University of Pretoria, 2019-11-30)
    Musina (Messina), is a small town in far northern South Africa known for its copper mining history. To date, historical narratives about South African industrialisation, especially with regards to the mining sector, have ...
  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use 
    Stephens, Lucas; Fuller, Dorian; Boivin, Nicole; Rick, Torben; Gauthier, Nicolas; Kay, Andrea; Marwick, Ben; Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Barton, C. Michael; Denham, Tim; Douglass, Kristina; Driver, Jonathan; Janz, Lisa; Roberts, Patrick; Rogers, J. Daniel; Thakar, Heather; Altaweel, Mark; Johnson, Amber L.; Vattuone, Maria Marta Sampietro; Aldenderfer, Mark; Archila, Sonia; Artioli, Gilberto; Bale, Martin T.; Beach, Timothy; Borrell, Ferran; Braje, Todd; Buckland, Philip I.; Cano, Nayeli Guadalupe Jiménez; Capriles, Jose M.; Castillo, Agustin Diez; Cilingiroglu, Ciler; Cleary, Michelle Negus; Conolly, James; Coutros, Peter R.; Covey, R. Alan; Cremaschi, Mauro; Crowther, Alison; Der, Lindsay; Di Lernia, Savino; Doershuk, John F.; Doolittle, William E.; Edwards, Kevin J.; Erlandson, Jon M.; Evans, Damian; Fairbairn, Andrew; Faulkner, Patrick; Feinman, Gary; Fernandes, Ricardo; Fitzpatrick, Scott M.; Fyfe, Ralph; Garcea, Elena; Goldstein, Steve; Goodman, Reed Charles; Guedes, Jade Dalpoim; Herrmann, Jason; Hiscock, Peter; Hommel, Peter; Horsburgh, K. Ann; Hritz, Carrie; Ives, John W.; Junno, Aripekka; Kahn, Jennifer G.; Kaufman, Brett; Kearns, Catherine; Kidder, Tristram R.; Lanoe, Francois; Lawrence, Dan; Lee, Gyoung-Ah; Levin, Maureece J.; Lindskoug, Henrik B.; Lopez-Saez, Jose Antonio; Macrae, Scott; Marchant, Rob; Marston, John M.; McClure, Sarah; McCoy, Mark D.; Miller, Alicia Ventresca; Morrison, Michael; Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite; Muller, Johannes; Nayak, Ayushi; Noerwidi, Sofwan; Peres, Tanya M.; Peterson, Christian E.; Proctor, Lucas; Randall, Asa R.; Renette, Steve; Schug, Gwen Robbins; Ryzewski, Krysta; Saini, Rakesh; Scheinsohn, Vivian; Schmidt, Peter R.; Sebillaud, Pauline; Seitsonen, Oula; Simpson, Ian A.; Soltysiak, Arkadiusz; Speakman, Robert J.; Spengler, Robert N.; Steffen, Martina L.; Storozum, Michael J.; Strickland, Keir M.; Thompson, Jessica; Thurston, T.L.; Ulm, Sean; Ustunkaya, M. Cemre; Welker, Martin H.; West, Catherine; Williams, Patrick Ryan; Wright, David K.; Wright, Nathan; Zahir, Muhammad; Zerboni, Andrea; Beaudoin, Ella; Garcia, Santiago Munevar; Powell, Jeremy; Thornton, Alexa; Kaplan, Jed O.; Gaillard, Marie-Jose; Goldewijk, Kees Klein; Ellis, Erle (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-08)
    Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment ...
  • Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa : past approaches and future directions 
    Ashley, Ceri Z.; Grillo, Katherine M. (Routledge, 2015-04)
    Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. ...
  • An archaeological identity of the Majimaji : toward an historical archaeology of resistance to German colonization in southern Tanzania 
    Rushohora, N.A. (Nancy) (Springer, 2015-08)
    This paper presents new insights on the Majimaji war, which is one of the least studied topics in Eastern Africa’s colonial history. The Majimaji (1905– 1907) was a large scale war of resistance against German colonial ...
  • An archaeological interpretation of certain iron age sites in the Limpopo/Shashi valley 
    Hanisch, Edwin Oscar Max (University of Pretoria, 1980)
    An archaeological investigation was made of two Iron Age sites on the farms Schroda and Pont Drift. The farms are situated on the southern bank of the Limpopo River, about 65 km and 95 km respectively west of Messina. ...