OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Anthropology Southern Africa is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“Lydiate is now our home of a sort”: perceptions of place amongst ageing first-generation Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe	8
Co-producing knowledge and care in team-based fieldwork in the Covid-19 era	6
“Becoming a somebody”: mobility, patronage and reconfiguration of transactional sexual relationships in postcolonial Africa	4
Liminality in incorporation: regularisation of undocumented Zimbabweans in South Africa	3
The role of “food” in network formation and the social integration of undocumented Zimbabwean migrant farmworkers in the Blouberg-Molemole area of Limpopo, South Africa	3
Doing anthropology in uncertain contexts: patchwork ethnography in Mozambique	3
Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Ethnography, calamities and war: Mozambique 2000	2
Nimble-footed Zimbabwean migrants: (im)mobility and the porousness of borders between South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 national lockdown	2
Obituary: Boet Kotzé, a radical and prophetic Afrikaans anthropologist (March 4, 1943–July 8, 2020)	2
Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa	2
Walking with herders: following into the multispecies classroom	1
Death and the sociocultural dimensions of forced relocations: experiences from the Tugwi-Mukosi displacement in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe	1
Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique	1
Modern family on the Zambian Copperbelt	1
Of friends and kollegen: understanding male friendships in Swakopmund, Namibia	1
Introduction	1
Pedagogy of incoko: challenges in adapting conversational forms as a praxis of student care and engagement in the context of digital learning in South Africa	1
The construction of “normative Zimbabweanness” through demonisation of rage, anger and emotion in select press coverage of the #ZimShutDown protests	1
Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa	1
Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia	1
Corrigendum	1
Innovative reworkings of ancestor ritual as a response to forced villagisation: an Eastern Cape example	1
The world in Guangzhou: Africans and other foreigners in South China’s global marketplace	1
“Armed with faith”: church membership, Pentecostal beliefs and migrant belonging in Harare, Zimbabwe	1

Vacillating vaccines: responses to Covid-19 in the United States and South Africa	1
Material culture in Southern Ndebele identity making in post-apartheid South Africa	0
When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia	0
Editorial	0
Traditional authorities, legal power and land disputes in north-west Namibia	0
Sensory studies manifesto: tracking the sensorial revolution in the arts and human sciences *Sensory studies manifesto: tracking the sensorial revolution in the arts an*	0
Sensing together: multisensory experiences and political phenomenology in Southern African cities	0
Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa *Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa* , by Noah Ta	0
From water to wine: Becoming middle class in Angola	0
Michael George Whisson (1937–2022)	0
There used to be order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines	0
Raw life, new hope: decency, housing and everyday life in a post-apartheid community	0
Reimagining money: Kenya in the digital finance revolution	0
Beef cuts amongst the Bangwaketse: the case of motlhakanelwa	0
Decolonising and Africanising the Spanish studies curriculum under emergency online teaching: introducing Equatorial Guinean literature in South African higher education	0
Introduction: When the scaffolds give way	0
Securing land rights: communal land reform in Namibia	0
The contested lands of Laikipia: histories of claims and conflicts in a Kenyan landscape	0
Editorial	0
Therianthropes as human-animal relations: contextualising rock art in anthropological perspective	0
Covid-19 pandemic and mobility strategies of Chadian roadside vendors in Kousseri, Cameroon	0
Living museums in Namibia: between empowerment and exploitation	0
Classify, exclude, police: urban lives in South Africa and Nigeria Classify, exclude, police: urban lives in South Africa and Nigeria , by Laurent Fourchard, Hoboken, Wi	0
Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa	0
Migrant labour after apartheid: The inside story	0
Nationalism, politics and anthropology: A tale of two South Africans	0
Learning with letters: epistolary pedagogy in anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand during the Covid-19 pandemic	0
Covid, cohesion, connection, care: thoughts on Connected Lives	0
Women and peacebuilding in Africa	0
Covid and custom in rural South Africa: culture, healthcare and the state Covid and custom in rural South Africa: culture, healthcare and the state , by Leslie Bank and	0
Faith in flux: Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique Faith in flux: Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique , by Devaka Premawardhana, Philadelphia, Un	0
Editors’ response: how connections of kinship and care are made and embraced	0
On South African kinship, households, health and care: Connected Lives (in review)	0
The politics of custom: chiefship, capital, and the state in contemporary Africa	0
The virtual field trip: conditions of access/ibility and configurations of care in teaching ethnography (during Covid-19)	0
Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene	0
Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town	0
Suspicious bodies: anti-citizens and biomedical anarchists in South Africa’s public health care system	0
Rethinking Khoe and San indigeneity, language and culture in Southern Africa Rethinking Khoe and San indigeneity, language and culture in Southern Africa , edited by Jul	0
Celebrating Alan Barnard (1949–2022): He’s in the Wind	0
The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon	0
Township economy: people, spaces, and practices	0
uMama wekhaya: local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa	0
Connected lives: shining a light on family and care in South Africa	0
The house of Tshatshu: power, politics and chiefs north-west of the Great Kei River c1818–2018	0
“I have everything I need, but on the other side, these things are redundant”: A photo-essay on transitioning during remote learning at North-West University	0
Healing knowledge in Atlantic Africa: medical encounters, 1500–1850	0
Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900	0
A companion to the anthropology of Africa	0
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997	0

Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza	0
Migrant arrival infrastructures and their impact on Zimbabweans’ mobility and integration in South Africa	0
Experiencing the uncertainty of development: ethnographic notes from central and northern Mozambique	0
Self in the world: connecting life’s extremes *Self in the world: connecting life’s extremes* , by Keith Hart, New York, Berghahn Books,	0
The biopolitical subject: alternative postcolonial entanglements in a global landscape	0
Have your yellowcake and eat it: men, relatedness, and intimacy in Swakopmund	0
Ironies of solidarity: insurance and financialization of kinship in South Africa	0
Sites of contestation: encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien	0
Nationalism and territoriality in Barue and Mozambique: Independence, belonging, contradiction	0
Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa , by Julie Livingston, Du	0
Editorial	0
Making mothers: care-work and everyday well-being in South African households	0
Affective justice: the International Criminal Court and the pan-Africanist pushback	0
“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes	0
Contingent citizens: professional aspiration in a South African hospital	0
Anthropology and the economy of sharing	0
Complicating masculinities: on fatherhood and care	0
Privileges of birth: constellations of care, myth and race in South Africa Privileges of birth: constellations of care, myth and race in South Africa , by Jennifer J.M.	0
Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana *Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana* , by P	0
“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area	0
Correction	0
Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer , by Lou-Marié Kruger, Pietermaritzburg	0
Disrupting self-censorship, inventing public space through interactive performances in Luanda, Angola	0
Challenges to the integration of the Platfontein San in South Africa between 1990 and 2003	0
Blaming the father: witchcraft, de-industrialisation and generation in South Africa	0
Listening to the sound(s) of colonial history	0
West Germany and Namibia’s path to independence, 1969–1990: Foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany	0
Editorial	0
Landscapes between then and now: recent histories in Southern African photography, performance and video art	0
Cities of entanglements: social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison	0
Death of a discipline? Reflections on the history, state, and future of social anthropology in Zimbabwe	0
A possible anthropology: methods for uneasy times	0
A meeting with gardenia: an ethnographic exploration of multispecies relationships and space construction in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden	0
Correction	0
San elders speak: ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San *San elders speak: ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San* , by Lucinda Backw	0
Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa: Contested histories and current struggles	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
The laziness myth: narratives of work and the good life in South Africa	0
For what is not here	0
Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic	0
The birth of Boererate : women and healing during the South African war	0
“Sex is sex, marriage is marriage”: infidelity amongst married women in Shamva, Zimbabwe	0
Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe	0