What good is anthropology? Care work in a “useless” discipline
| dc.contributor.author | Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi | |
| dc.contributor.email | nolwazi.mkhwanazi@up.ac.za | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-15T08:54:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-15T08:54:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-02 | |
| dc.description | This essay was written as part of the Wellcome Trust–funded project “Reimagining Reproduction: Making Babies, Making Kin and Citizens in Africa” (project no. 222874/Z/21/Z). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Different forms of care work are essential for the practice of anthropology in South Africa. In this biographical commentary, I describe how I enacted care work in my anthropological practice. I suggest that what is good about anthropology is its potential to be attentive to the multiple ways in which care work is enacted by us as anthropologists, as teachers of the discipline, as well as by our interlocutors. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | hj2024 | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | None | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/amet | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi. 2024. “What good is anthropology?.” American Ethnologist 51: 111–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13253. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0094-0496 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1548-1425 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1111/amet.13253 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/95977 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2023 American Anthropological Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Anthropology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Care | en_US |
| dc.subject | Care work | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Africa (SA) | en_US |
| dc.title | What good is anthropology? Care work in a “useless” discipline | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |