This review covers two major causes of change in pastoral systems. First is fragmentation,
the dissection of a natural system into spatially isolated parts, which is caused by a number …

To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three
kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical …

A work that reassesses the issues that have always affected anthropology: what is
anthropology for; how do anthropologists want their work to be understood; for whom do …

This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African,
ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in …

Anthropology remains an unpopular discipline among many African intellectuals. I revisit
debates on relations between fiction and ethnography to make a case for enriching African …

Critiques of child participation within aid programming suggest that it is superficial and
insubstantive for the fulfilment of children's rights. By employing former child research …

This article, based on ethnographic research conducted with people in Brazil and
Zimbabwe, reports organization/management experiences and narratives of poor and …

This article draws on rich ethnographies and ethnographic fiction depicting mobile Africans
and their relationships to the places and people they encounter to argue that mobility is …

Abstract Professor Archibald Monwabisi Mafeje passed away on 28 March 2007. The
meaning of Archie Mafeje, for three generations of African scholars and social scientists, is …

Abstract The African Studies Centre has been a privileged institutional form in Britain for
knowledge production on Africa since the end of colonialism. This article argues that the …