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(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 ...
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(Routledge, 2018-04)This is a commentary on Carina Truyts’s photo essay entitled “Trash, Teaching and the City: The ‘Big Hole Counter Narrative’ project and the ‘Urban Anthropology: Research Methods and Fieldwork’ Course at Sol Plaatje University.”
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2015-04)In this paper I describe my recent journey through the lower Omo Valley where I visited various tribal groups and witnessed a Hamer bull-jumping ceremony. The aim with this article is to present African life-systems ...
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(Routledge, 2016-02)The late Pleistocene and Holocene history of eastern Africa is complex and major gaps remain in our understanding of human occupation during this period. Questions concerning the identities, geographical distributions ...
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(Routledge, 2014-09)This article explores living conditions, livelihoods and prospects of farmworkers with regard to land reform legislation. Research was conducted from 2004 to 2010 on four farms in the North West Province, interviewing ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023)Adolescents and men are two populations that perform poorly within the HIV cascade of care, having worse AIDS-related health outcomes, and experiencing higher levels of HIV-related stigma. This paper explores institutional ...
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(Routledge, 2011-10)Apartheid's lingering ghost ensures that repatriation processes in South Africa are complex. Apartheid ideology not only separated black and white, but also made ethnicity the prime identity for Africans, many of whom ...
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(KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2014-10)Penge is an Early Iron Age farming settlement in the Sekhukhuneland region of Limpopo Province. Excavations were conducted in 2005 as part of a mitigation process for the expansion of the Penge town waterworks. Ceramic ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-10)Scholarly approaches to the Greek crisis usually centered on its political character, tackle it as “a state of exception” or emphasize its “exceptional” features. Departing from a discussion on the nature of the crisis, ...
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(Routledge, 2013)This article discusses a case of popular social response to imposed austerity and recession in Greece. It focuses on the antimiddleman movement in an Athens suburb. It also addresses the broader picture of the current ...
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(Routledge, 2019)No abstract available.
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(MDPI, 2021-11-28)Sacred sites and landscapes mirror indigenous peoples’ identity, well-being and sense of place. In Venda, northern South Africa, such places are preserved through myths and legends. Following a scoping study, which also ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2019)Since its inception in academia in 1929 by John Goodwin and Clarence van Riet Lowe, the Later Stone Age (LSA) in southern Africa has seen considerable growth and heated academic debate. Recently, some academics have ...
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(Routledge, 2017-09)Diamond mining in the rural highlands of Lesotho has taken different forms over the past century: unregulated diamond digging by locals and “migrant” diggers in the early 1950s; regulated diamond mining by a state-sponsored ...
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(Southern African Alliance for Sport Science, Physical Education and Recreation, 2014)The Comrades Marathon is a dominating event on the annual sport calendar in South Africa. The race challenges its participants in terms of a combination of constraints, such as the spatial, physical, temporal and the ...
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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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(Routledge, 2010)The First World rationale for nature conservation is usually the aesthetic and recreational experiences and opportunities that nature provides and its scientific importance, but rural populations in Africa tend to focus ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2022)A recent uptick in international trade in donkey hides has sparked intense concern among social activists. Several campaigns have been launched in attempts to protect donkeys and to ensure their wellbeing in response to ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2019-12)As I continue with my reflection, my focus in this editorial, as the sunset is even more eminent, is on South Africa’s transition in 1994. In particular, it is about the expectations that were meant to address inequality ...
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(Springer, 2023-02)The K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex is widely regarded as the centre for the development of class-based society out of earlier ranked communities between c. AD 900 and AD 1300 in northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe, ...
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