Anthropology Southern Africa

Papers
(The TQCC of Anthropology Southern Africa is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Incompleteness, mobility and conviviality: Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 Frobenius-Institut, Goethe-University15
Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa7
Healing knowledge in Atlantic Africa: medical encounters, 1500–18505
Wildlife corridors in a Southern African conservation landscape: the political ecology of multispecies mobilities along the arteries of anthropogenic conservation4
Nimble-footed Zimbabwean migrants: (im)mobility and the porousness of borders between South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 national lockdown4
The birth of Boererate : women and healing during the South African war3
Ritualised wealth and the moral spectacle: interrogating occult imagery in Nigerian media narratives3
The biopolitical subject: alternative postcolonial entanglements in a global landscape3
Gluckman’s exceptionalism?3
Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa3
Classify, exclude, police: urban lives in South Africa and Nigeria Classify, exclude, police: urban lives in South Africa and Nigeria , by Laurent Fourchard, Hoboken, Wi3
uMama wekhaya: local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa2
Nationalism, politics and anthropology: A tale of two South Africans2
Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town2
Experiencing the uncertainty of development: ethnographic notes from central and northern Mozambique2
The making, unmaking and adaptation of Mayeyi multispecies entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti wetlands: eighteenth century to 19902
Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa , by Noah Ta2
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities2
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (1941–2025)1
Sethunya Tshepho Mosime (8 October 1974–10 December 2024)1
When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia1
Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza1
Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 19001
Editorial1
Migrant labour after apartheid: The inside story1
Landscapes between then and now: recent histories in Southern African photography, performance and video art1
Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe1
Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins1
Migrant arrival infrastructures and their impact on Zimbabweans’ mobility and integration in South Africa1
Covid-19 pandemic and mobility strategies of Chadian roadside vendors in Kousseri, Cameroon1
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously1
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. 1
Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer , by Lou-Marié Kruger, Pietermaritzburg1
Cultivation of honeybush ( Cyclopia spp .) in neo-colonial and multispecies landscapes of South Africa1
Wider family in post-privatisation Zambia1
“Becoming a somebody”: mobility, patronage and reconfiguration of transactional sexual relationships in postcolonial Africa1
“The issues still persist”: a roundtable discussion of perpetual crisis, the massification of grief and joyful black futures1
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, Du1
Deconstructing childhood trauma in South Africa1
Ethnography, calamities and war: Mozambique 20001
Reimagining money: Kenya in the digital finance revolution1
“Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below1
“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area1
Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic1
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