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Papers

(The median citation count 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Incompleteness, mobility and conviviality: Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 Frobenius-Institut, Goethe-University	16
Wildlife corridors in a Southern African conservation landscape: the political ecology of multispecies mobilities along the arteries of anthropogenic conservation	7
Nimble-footed Zimbabwean migrants: (im)mobility and the porousness of borders between South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 national lockdown	5
The birth of Boererate : women and healing during the South African war	4
uMama wekhaya: local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa	3
Gluckman’s exceptionalism?	3
Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa	3
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	3
Ritualised wealth and the moral spectacle: interrogating occult imagery in Nigerian media narratives	3
Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town	2
The making, unmaking and adaptation of Mayeyi multispecies entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti wetlands: eighteenth century to 1990	2
Experiencing the uncertainty of development: ethnographic notes from central and northern Mozambique	2
Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa *Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa* , by Noah Ta	2
Nationalism, politics and anthropology: A tale of two South Africans	2
Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe	2
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities	2
Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins	2
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (1941–2025)	2
Lovestruck? Gender-based violence and the materiality of intimacy in the rural Eastern Cape	1
Post-pandemic women-led vigilantism: implications for gender, power and popular justice in the rural Eastern Cape	1
Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza	1
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
Editorial	1
“The issues still persist”: a roundtable discussion of perpetual crisis, the massification of grief and joyful black futures	1
Cultivation of honeybush ( Cyclopia spp .) in neo-colonial and multispecies landscapes of South Africa	1

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime (8 October 1974–10 December 2024)	1
“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area	1
Deconstructing childhood trauma in South Africa	1
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously	1
Reimagining money: Kenya in the digital finance revolution	1
From water to wine: Becoming middle class in Angola	1
Migrant labour after apartheid: The inside story	1
Wider family in post-privatisation Zambia	1
Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer Of motherhood and melancholia: notebook of a psycho-ethnographer , by Lou-Marié Kruger, Pietermaritzburg	1
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	1
When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia	1
Ethnography, calamities and war: Mozambique 2000	1
Post-pandemic transformations in omakoti’s (young wives’) attitudes towards unpaid labour at ceremonies in the rural Eastern Cape: a new normal?	1
Covid-19 pandemic and mobility strategies of Chadian roadside vendors in Kousseri, Cameroon	1
Migrant arrival infrastructures and their impact on Zimbabweans’ mobility and integration in South Africa	1
From buying out to buying in? Exploring the politics of value creation in green energy transition projects	1
“Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below	1
Sensing together: multisensory experiences and political phenomenology in Southern African cities	0
“We wait to become”: The politics of selfhood, culture and control in waiting mothers’ shelters	0
Response to Andrew Bank and Anjuli Webster	0
Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore	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
Making and remaking life under threat: fenceline communities in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga	0
The Materiality of Lake Kariba: Water, Livelihoods, Belonging and Conservation	0
A meeting with gardenia: an ethnographic exploration of multispecies relationships and space construction in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden	0
Some old South Africans represented: reading Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room	0
The Bushman Myth Revisited: Genocide, Dispossession and the Road to Servitude	0
Beyond the “single story” of vaccine hesitancy: “studying up” a public health response to vaccine-associated polio in South Africa	0
Editorial	0
Women, gender fluidity and Shona kinship structure in Zimbabwe	0
Reconfiguring hospitals as affective infrastructures	0
“Looking for life”: sustaining livelihoods and life in artisanal gold mining in Bondo, Western Kenya	0
Contesting the Just Transition from the Waterberg Coalfield: grounded socio-ecological possibilities for (co)habitable futures	0
“ Sathi sifuna ukusebenza, siyasebenza ” [We said we wanted to work, so we must work]: minibus taxi drivers’ stories during the Covid-19 pandemic in Durban, South Africa	0
Hunting the hippo: a brief history of wildlife hunting and the reconfiguration of animal-human relations in Namibia’s Zambezi region	0
“Tell a good story of China”: Experiences of state-sponsored overseas Chinese academics navigating frictions and identity in South Africa	0
Max Gluckman and anthropology’s objects	0
Continuity and discontinuity of rituals: Covid-19 pandemic in Southern 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
Learning morality, inequalities, and faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania Learning morality, inequalities, and faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania	0
Unveiling Kianda: a multifaceted symbol in Luanda, Angola	0
Contested landscapes: fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania	0
The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon	0
“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes	0
“Lydiate is now our home of a sort”: perceptions of place amongst ageing first-generation Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe	0
Vacillating vaccines: responses to Covid-19 in the United States and South Africa	0
Nationalism and territoriality in Barue and Mozambique: Independence, belonging, contradiction	0
Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia	0
African Tragedy: A Novel by Wulf Sachs	0
Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895–1959)	0

Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique	0
The beast that never forgot? Baboon conservation and the role of multispecies history	0
Memorandum on the problem of farm labour (1937)	0
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century	0
Tragedy, trauma and infinite possibility	0
San elders speak: ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San *San elders speak: ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San* , by Lucinda Backw	0
“Armed with faith”: church membership, Pentecostal beliefs and migrant belonging in Harare, Zimbabwe	0
Editorial	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
James Ferguson (1959–2025)	0
Editorial	0
Caroline Frances White (1941–2025)	0
Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa: Contested histories and current struggles	0
Community liaison officers and the brokerage of corporate-led socio-economic development in South Africa’s Just Transition	0
Articulations of kinship and capital in Southern African anthropology: revisiting Wolpe and his critics	0
“Between girlhood and womanhood”: chinamwali as a cultural mechanism for sexual socialisation among Chewa in Mbare, Harare	0
“We have that connection, we have love; we take wildlife as gifts from our ancestors”: relations between antelopes and Khwe in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park	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
Introduction: Multispecies encounters in conservation landscapes in Southern Africa	0
“No blood on their hands”?: The structured incoherence of the apartheid state and its violence	0
Introduction—Gluckman’s relevance for South African anthropology	0
Disrupting self-censorship, inventing public space through interactive performances in Luanda, Angola	0
Living among the dead: Mpondo theory, black mourning and the living dead in Hugo ka Canham’s Riotous Deathscapes Living among the dead: Mpondo theory, black mourning and	0
Michael George Whisson (1937–2022)	0
Crossing Etosha: a history of donkeys in Namibia’s central north	0
Dreamers or schemers? Fears of “town capture” in a rural South African township	0
Liminal bodies left in perpetual suspension: social, cultural and political-economic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern African contexts	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
Cosmopolitan Refugees; Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg	0
Rise Africa	0
Celebrating Alan Barnard (1949–2022): He’s in the Wind	0
Correction	0
“Sex is sex, marriage is marriage”: infidelity amongst married women in Shamva, Zimbabwe	0
Dear Mr Sobukwe: examining Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s pan-African vision and how it has influenced youth movements in South Africa today	0
Doing anthropology in uncertain contexts: patchwork ethnography in Mozambique	0
J. K. Hart (1943-2025)—Keith Hart and the Human Economy Research Programme	0
Conclusion: Situating multispecies relations in Southern Africa in their local historical and political contexts	0
Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa	0
Of vaccines, biopower, subjects and governmentality: an ethnographic enquiry into the Zimbabwean Covid-19 vaccination drive	0
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa	0
Correction	0
Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana *Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana* , by P	0
Women and peacebuilding in Africa	0
Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene	0
The Aesthetics of Belonging. Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda	0
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture	0
More-than-human sociality: the doings of Covid and multispecies relations in Southern Africa	0
Introduction	0
Living museums in Namibia: between empowerment and exploitation	0
Editorial	0