Anthropologists, it is currently claimed, can and should play a significant role in those processes of managed and haphazard social change subsumed under the heading of development (Pottier 1993). In South Africa, many ...
This study examines the sudden shift in the rural class struggle attendant upon the arrival of the British Army in the Transvaal during the South African, or Boer, War of 1899-1902; its foci are the war itself and (especially) ...
This paper seeks to examine the circumstances surrounding the rise of a segregationist ideology in South Africa during the decade after the Boer War, culminating in the Natives’ Land Act of 1913. In tracing this development, ...
The introduction of DDT and related pesticides in the war
against malaria in Asia, Africa and Latin America during the
1940s had a dramatic impact on anopheles mosquito populations and consequently on the worldwide ...
Among scholars who would disagree on the interpretation of many aspects of
South African society there appears to be a considerable measure of consensus
on the course of agricultural production in the reserves during the ...
Historians opposed to structural analysis and working with models that place a
greater emphasis on human agency have argued that white fanners were always
highly stratified. For the period before 1930, a number of studies ...
The Community Councils Act of 1977 provided for the
establishment of community councils in the African urban
townships - the urban locus for the management and reproduction
of the African labour force in the cities and ...
The title of this paper comes from a 1901 book by W.T. Stead, entitled The Americanisation
of the World. A British reformer and editor of the London-based Review of Reviews, Stead is
perhaps best known to historians as ...
In June 1930, Audrey Richards, a young British anthropologist who had trained
with Malinowski, arrived in her research area - the Bemba plateau in the northeastern
corner of what was then Northern Rhodesia. She was to ...
Witwatersrand during the 1940s and 1950s never involved themselves in "politics". Because they were almost by definition unemployed they were also marginal to the struggle between capital and labour. A study of the tsotsi ...
White settler political ideology in South Africa has traditionally seen itself as the embodiment
of some form of "civilisation" against the threatened "barbarism" of African
majority rule. The term has a significance ...
Writers on South African race policy frequently distinguish between the ‘administrative-repressive’ structure and the ‘utopian’ or 'declamatory' aspects of apartheid, between the ongoing processes of racial discrimination ...