Challenges for anthropology in the 'African Renaissance'
Subtitle: a Southern African contribution
By: edited by Debie LeBeau and Robert J. Gordon
Contributors: LeBeau, Debie; Gordon, Robert J., 1947-; University of Namibia. Department of Sociology; Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa
Series: University of Namibia Press. Publication -- no. 1; Publication (University of Namibia Press) -- no. 1
Publisher: University of Namibia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Windhoek, Namibia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Anthropology; Social life and customs
Notes: Based on the conference organised by the Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa (AASA), held in Namibia in 2000.

"Department of Sociology, University of Namibia (UNAM)"

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Anthropology and the 'African renaissance': social crises and the potential for complex emergencies in North Eastern Zambia; title: Rethinking anthropology in Africa in the 'African renaissance'; title: A teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner; title: 'Without culture there is no future': the performance of heritage in post-apartheid Northern Namibia; title: Making and maintaining the tribe and the ingenuity of genealogy; title: 'We want our own chief': San communities battle against their image; title: Anthropology and African witchcraft: social 'strain-gauge', modernity and witchcraft violence in South Africa's far-north; title: The prevention of disease in Africa: ethno- and biomedical approaches; title: Is witchcraft real? The role of perceptions in health seeking behaviour; title: Conflict between the living and the dead: the patrilineage versus the individual in the training of indigenous healers; title: Identity, protest and healing: the multiple uses of marijuana in Rastafari; title: Gender, tradition, sexual diversity and AIDS in postcolonial Southern Africa: some suggestions for research; title: Sisters and their brothers: an examination of the traditional ritual and secular roles of makhadzi in Venda, Northern Province, South Africa; title: Food security, social and gender relations in black South African households: ways of coping and survival; title: Heads of households or simply breadwinners? a case study of married women in Masvingo, Zimbabwe; title: Youth problems in Namibia; title: Who ought to be involved in decision-making regarding development projects? Experiences from the Isithatha Agricultural Project; title: Corporatism and the Namibian San; title: The influence of culture in Zulu language development; title: Teaching European language and culture against the background of 'African renaissance'; title: Revisiting culture and traditions: a constitutional paradox for Southern Africans; title: Anatomy of conflict and its resolution in the management of miombo woodlands in Zimbabwe; title: 'How can the rain fall in this chaos?': myth and metaphor in representations of the North-west Namibian landscape; title: The representation of social meaning by bureaucrats: removal of the disempowered  from Willem Klopperville (1958-1965); title: Is it for real? Notes on the meanings and etymology of spaza in South African popular culture; title: Unconquered territory: narrating the Caledon valley.