Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology and Archaeology) by Subject "Ethnography"

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Ceramics, ethnohistory, and ethnography : locating meaning in southern African iron age ceramic assemblages

Pikirayi, Innocent; Lindahl, Anders (Springer, 2013-12)

For ceramics to be relevant in the Southern African Iron Age, archaeologists must broaden their theoretical base to include social and other contexts when interpreting material culture items such as pottery. Pottery ...
On law and legality in post-apartheid South Africa : insights from a migrant street trader

Schraten, Jürgen (Routledge, 2014-09)

This article focuses on the experience of law and legality by a migrant street trader in post-apartheid South Africa. The experiences of this stall vendor are analysed alongside theoretical notions of law and the legal ...
‘We are running for a living’ : work, leisure and speculative accumulation in an underground numbers lottery in Johannesburg

Krige, Detlev (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

In this paper the author presents a historically-informed ethnography of a Johannesburg underground lottery. The meaning of this lottery is tied up with the local-level sociological organisation of lottery banks and the ...

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