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ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTHERN AFRICA CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE
FROM THE 20TH-23RD OF SEPTEMBER 2010
Monday 20 September 2010
14:00-17:00
Registration at UFH East London FHISER DEPARTMENT – 4 Hill Street, East London, Fort Hare East London Campus
17:00-19:00 Opening Panel Discussion, Book Launch and Exhibition-ABC Hall UFH Main Building – Fort Hare East London Campus
Archie Mafeje: The Life and Work of an African Anthropologist Panelists:
Vuyiswa Swana (nee Mafeje), Archie’s younger sister and closest sibling
Dr. Archie Nkonyeni, Archie’s close school-mate and fellow political activist
Nomfundo Mafeje, Archie’s first wife
Ganief Hendricks, Archie’s house-mate and room-mate for three years in District Six.
Prof. Renee Hirschon, Archie’s student in Social Anthropology at UCT.
Prof. Andrew Bank, curator of the Exhibition.
19:00-20:00 Finger Supper Staff Common Room - UFH Main Building - Fort Hare East London Campus Delegates welcomed to the University by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research)
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Tuesday 21 September 2010
08:00-09:00
Conference desk opens at Crawford’s Cabins
09:00-10:00
Keynote Address:
Engaged Fieldwork: The Dilemmas and Diversity of Anthropological Engagement
Prof Setha Low, City University of New York
10:00-10:30
Tea Tea Tea Tea
10:30-12:00
Session 1A: Histories of Anthropology
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Bank&Swana
Andrew&Vuyiswa UWC ‘Speaking from Inside’: Archie Mafeje, Monica Wilson and the Making of Langa: A study of Social Groups in an African Township (1963)
Baluku Stanley UWC The Making of a Research Institution: Makerere Institute of Social Research; a Social history,1948-1974
Tinga
Kaingu Kalume UWC Dancing with the Ancestors: A History of Vinyango Tradition and its Social Relevance along the Kenya Coast
Bank
Leslie UFH Hidden ethnographies and the Anthropology of Livingstone Mqotsi (1921-2009).
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10:30-12:00
Session 1B: Ethics and Fieldwork Dilemmas
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Macdonald Helen M. UCT How one is seeing: Modernity as an object of skepticism
Muzvidziwa
Victor University of Swaziland
Doing Fieldwork at home: Ethical dilemmas and being the ‘other’ at home.
Lamla C.M WSU Reminiscences of Field work and its aftermath
Pfingu Tinashe SU Treading with Caution: Issues in contemporary ethnographic research
10:30-12:00
Session 1C: Fieldwork and urban subcultures
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Wentzel
Tazneem SU The City with Soul: Ghoema Rhythms, Moppies, Minstrels,and Meta-Events
Botha
Benita Joy RU Fieldwork in a Tattoo Parlour
Chikaoneka Postar UP Fear, Comfort and Neutrality: Doing Fieldwork in a Downtown Bar in Pretoria
Kleinhans Elron RU Fieldwork Experience within the Underground Subculture of Illegal Drag Racing
12:00-13:30
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
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13:30-14:30
Keynote Address : Addressing the Universals: Challenges for Anthropology in the 21st Century Dr Renee Hirschon, University of Oxford
14:30-15:00
Tea Tea Tea Tea Tea
15:00-16:30
Session 2A: Childhood
Surname
Name
Affiliation Title
Levine Susan UCT Young Interpreters: Doing fieldwork with children
Zaranyika Hazel UJ Keeping children in school in rural communities: The case of Nyamande village in Murewa, Zimbabwe
Blake Rosemary UCT Towards an anthropology of childhood: Experiences from the field
Umino Rumi
University of Miyazaki, Japan
Doing Fieldwork Within: My child or a subject? Mother or an anthropologist?
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15:00-16:30
Session 2B: Culture, Language and Identity
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Swartz Eleanor SU The role of Afrikaans in the social identity formation of White and Coloured Afrikaans-speakers.
Van Merch Nicole SU Stretching yoga: non-local identity formation through the practice of yoga
van Wyk Stephen UP Identity and space: Doing fieldwork in a Mosque
Burke Adam UCT
‘Global Education’ in Action: Coming to grips with the notion of culture and polyvalence in Katurura, Namibia
15:00- 16:30
Session 2C Fieldwork and the Politics of Home
Spiegel Andrew UCT Ethnography of and participant observation through the senses: Identifying social disaggregation in space and time
Palmer
Robin RU Anthropology at Home-at last
Badat Hussein RU Methodological problems arising from Anthropology at home
Esterhuyse Petro UFS The Practice and Politics of Interdisciplinary Research- Implications for Fieldwork
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Wednesday 22 September 2010
09:00-10:30
Session 3A: Citizenship
Surname
Name
Affiliation Title
Greenwood Megan UCT On threading and unreveling: Suffering citizens and citizenship suffering
Dickson Jessica UCT Ethnicity is blood and the soil
Strimenos Alexis UCT Sex is to Gender as…Gender is to Sex?: A Critical Engagement with Anthropology’s Study of Gender and its Implications for an Understanding of Citizenship Theory
Rodrigues Erika UCT Framing the Mass Media
09:00-10:30
Session 3B: Youth Identities
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Makukule Idah UJ Negotiating male youth identity through language in the Township of Thokoza
Joshi Hemali UJ Not just at face value-Understanding how the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Facebook members use notions of public and private to perform their identity
Tshabangu Busani UJ Sophiatown stories: Preventing/narrating youth substance use
Kent Lauren RU The Synchronicity Scouts: Breaking the Dance
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09:00-10:30
Session 3C: Rituals, Rumours and Violence
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Robins Steve SU Rumours of violence and spectacles of sport: Nationalism and exclusion in an age of FIFA 2010
Bank Leslie UFH The Body of Christ: Spiritual Insecurity, Violence and the Politics of Place in a South African Township
Kriel Johann D UP The expansion and decline of a South African spirit possession cult
Kriel Inge UP Poverty is where the money is. Ritual, rumour and Bafokeng,Inc.’s distribution dilemma
10:30-11:00
Tea
Tea Tea Tea Tea
11:00-12:30
Session 4A Race & Gender
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Ojong& Muthuki
Vivian& Janet
UKZN
The gender dynamics of conducting fieldwork and its implications for the writing of ethnographies
Boswell Rosabelle RU From Antananarivo to Cape Town: Gender, Heritage and Race in the Field
Grundlingh Marizanne SU Boobs and Balls: Exploring issues of Gender and Identity among Women Soccer Players at Stellenbosch University
Rivers
Nina RU Gender and Race in the Field: Zimbabwean migrants in Humansdorp
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11:00-12:30
Session 4B Fieldwork and Community Engagement
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Salo E. UP Border Crossings. Fieldwork as a Process of transgression and Production
Jolaosho Omotayo Wits/Rutgers University
Performance and Community Mobilization in Contemporary South Africa
Majali Vuyiseka UFH Best Ticket into the Community
Dube Thulani UFH Dealing with fieldwork politics in data collection for development Evaluation for Gender Projects
Ngqila Kholekile WSU Empirical Fieldwork: ground for testing theory
11:00-12:30
Session 4C Mobile Ethnographies
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Njanjokuma Otu
Monica UKZN Geographical Positioning and cultural affinity: motivating factors for African professional migrancy at the University of KwaZulu Natal-South Africa
Nyoni Phefumula WSU ‘From methodological challenges to methodological changes’. Fieldwork encounters with the community of remittance transporters in Johannesburg.
Barbali Silvana RU Islam, Transnationalism and Senegalese Migrants in Port Elizabeth
Hassen Shu’eib SU How to become a Successful Train-preacher
12:30-13:30
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
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13:30-15:00
Session 5A Photography and Heritage
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Mnyaka Phindezwa. E UFH Engaging distance: Joseph Denfield’s Photographic Representations of Nigeria
Bogopa David NMMU Indigenous Games: Selected case of Indigenous games in South Africa
Williams Christian A. UWC The Production of National History: Remember Cassinga?
Molapo Leo University of Lesotho
The Investigation of the value of ancestors: The case of informally declared heritage sites
13:30-15:00
Session 5B Health and well-being
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Colvin Christopher J. UCT ‘A House in Virginia”: Community Health Workers and the Social Life of HIV/AIDS Diagnoses in South Africa
Musgrave Leigh UJ ‘Trick or treatment? A reflection on the meaning-full implications of organic consumption’
Marshak Naomi UCT 'Orphanhood and vulnerability in the context of HIV/AIDS'.
Gibson Diana UWC Research in a Hospital: Ethnography from the Margins
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13:30-15:00
Session 5C Environment and Development
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Nkhereanye Ithuteng. V UJ Constraints Contributing to the gap between intention and outcomes: The case of Tigane Community Farming-a local economic development project
McAlister Gareth RU Ihlathi: local forests and local people
Aucamp Marida UJ Going with the flow of power: Attitudes and behavior towards freshwater conservation in Hazyview
Nortje & Jacobs
Karen and Inga
CSIR “Interview Sluts” in the Lowveld: Reflections on Fieldwork Experiences in Water Conservation.
15:00-15:30
Tea Tea Tea Tea
15:30-17:00
ASNA COUNCIL MEETING- CRAWFORD RESTAURANT
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER AT MICHAELA’S OF CHINTSA RESTAURANT
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Thursday 23 September 2010
08:30-10:00
Session 6A: Witchcraft, Governance and Power
Surname Name Affiliation Title
McDougall
Kathleen SU& University of Chicago
No Boer, No Future: A consideration of political futures
Sumich Jason UFH Does all that is Solid Melt into Air?: Questioning ‘Neo-Liberal’ Occult Economies in Mozambique
Petrus Theodore
NMMU Empowering the Powerless: Using Anthropological Knowledge to address the Challenge of Witchcraft-related crime in post-apartheid South Africa
Mbele T UKZN The ‘traditional’ in the indigenous institution of governance versus the ‘democratic’ in the modern institution of governance in the area of Matatiele.
10:30-12:00
Session 6B: Xenophobia and Transnational Migrants
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Sausi K. HSRC Theory of segmented assimilation: a comparative study of Nigerian migrants’ integration in Durban
Fomunyam Bilola Nicoline UKZN Regrouping and Adjustment of Cameroonians in Durban
Maliwa Azole UP What’s in a name? Labeling of foreigners in
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Tabankulu
Roux Tarien UCT Diasporas as exemplary communities
10:30-12:00
Session 6C: Fieldwork and Auto-ethnography
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Ntombana Luvuyo NMMU The Rewards and Shortcoming of Auto-Anthropology: A Cultural Perspective
du Plooy, Serekoane& Blomerus
Shirley, Motsaathebe& Liezel
UFS
The insider gets the results-or do they really?
Kunvar Yogita RU Fieldwork in Government
Botha Nina UP Fieldwork to the Letter
10:00-10:30
Tea
Tea
Tea
Tea
Tea
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10:30-12:00
Session 7A: Development and Anthropology
Surname Name Affiliation Title
De Wet Chris RU Development, Development Sociology and the Long Duree: 150 years of Intervention in an Eastern Cape Settlement
Wotshela Luvuyo UFH Researching on the Shifting Control of Resources and Patronage Politics in the Late twentieth to early twenty-first century Northern Ciskei
Bank & Mabhena
Leslie & Clifford
UFH Between umzi and the ndlu: Changing meanings of the rural house and the politics of land in South Africa
Saltman Amy Harvard University
Shifting geopolitics of care: Care-seeking practices and circular migration amongst Xhosa-speaking people from the former Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
10:30-12:00
Session 7B: Fieldwork Experiences
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Marais Ingrid UJ Using geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize anthropological data in cities: An example from Joubert Park, Johannesburg
Mzwandile
Paul Komanisi UFH Some Limitations of Participant Observation
Nyika Emery UFH Establishing rapport with informants
Sibanda Octavia UFH ‘Politics of hunger’: Re-evaluating white poverty in South Africa.
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Vogel Astrid RU The transformations of a fieldwork study on 2010 FIFA World Cup fans in Grahamstown
10:30-12:00
Session 7C: Economic Anthropology
Surname Name Affiliation Title
Mususa
Patience Ntelamo
UCT Working without order: spatial practice on the Zambian Copperbelt after the privatization of ZCCM
Hayakawa
Mayu Osaka University, Japan
Battle to the end: reconsideration on the methods for economic activities under the hyperinflational situation in Zimbabwe 2008-2009
Ntabeni Vuyani UP Studying Patterns of credit among Street Traders in Marabastad, Pretoria: Improvising on Fieldwork Methodology
Ali Tasnim UJ Liquid power: Ethnography in the workplace
Closing Remarks Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
12:00-13:00
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
****Transport to Airport and East London Ready****