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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Landscapes between then and now: recent histories in Southern African photography, performance and video art	13
Healing knowledge in Atlantic Africa: medical encounters, 1500–1850	6
Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa	4
Listening to the sound(s) of colonial history	3
Traditional authorities, legal power and land disputes in north-west Namibia	3
Wildlife corridors in a Southern African conservation landscape: the political ecology of multispecies mobilities along the arteries of anthropogenic conservation	2
From water to wine: Becoming middle class in Angola	2
Dear Mr Sobukwe: examining Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s pan-African vision and how it has influenced youth movements in South Africa today	2
Suspicious bodies: anti-citizens and biomedical anarchists in South Africa’s public health care system	2
Cultivation of honeybush ( Cyclopia spp .) in neo-colonial and multispecies landscapes of South Africa	2
“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area	2
Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia	1
Migrant labour after apartheid: The inside story	1
Ironies of solidarity: insurance and financialization of kinship in South Africa	1
Learning with letters: epistolary pedagogy in anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Doing anthropology in uncertain contexts: patchwork ethnography in Mozambique	1
Vacillating vaccines: responses to Covid-19 in the United States and South Africa	1
Incompleteness, mobility and conviviality: Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 Frobenius-Institut, Goethe-University	1
Disrupting self-censorship, inventing public space through interactive performances in Luanda, Angola	1
The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon	1
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	1
Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa	1
The biopolitical subject: alternative postcolonial entanglements in a global landscape	1
Migrant arrival infrastructures and their impact on Zimbabweans’ mobility and integration in South Africa	1
Decolonising and Africanising the Spanish studies curriculum under emergency online teaching: introducing Equatorial Guinean literature in South African higher education	1

Nimble-footed Zimbabwean migrants: (im)mobility and the porousness of borders between South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 national lockdown	1
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	1
San elders speak: ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San *San elders speak: ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San* , by Lucinda Backw	1
The birth of Boererate : women and healing during the South African war	1
Nationalism and territoriality in Barue and Mozambique: Independence, belonging, contradiction	1
For what is not here	1
Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895–1959)	1
Of vaccines, biopower, subjects and governmentality: an ethnographic enquiry into the Zimbabwean Covid-19 vaccination drive	1
Correction	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
Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana *Burning matters: life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana* , by P	0
Learning morality, inequalities, and faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania Learning morality, inequalities, and faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania	0
Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic	0
Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique	0
Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa	0
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	0
Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe	0
Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic	0
The beast that never forgot? Baboon conservation and the role of multispecies history	0
Have your yellowcake and eat it: men, relatedness, and intimacy in Swakopmund	0
Nationalism, politics and anthropology: A tale of two South Africans	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
Editorial	0
When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia	0
Walking with herders: following into the multispecies classroom	0
Ethnography, calamities and war: Mozambique 2000	0
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997	0
Sensing together: multisensory experiences and political phenomenology in Southern African cities	0
Death and the sociocultural dimensions of forced relocations: experiences from the Tugwi-Mukosi displacement in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe	0
Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene	0
Crossing Etosha: a history of donkeys in Namibia’s central north	0
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities	0
Michael George Whisson (1937–2022)	0
Modern family on the Zambian Copperbelt	0
The virtual field trip: conditions of access/ibility and configurations of care in teaching ethnography (during Covid-19)	0
Wider family in post-privatisation Zambia	0
There used to be order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines	0
Blaming the father: witchcraft, de-industrialisation and generation in South Africa	0
Challenges to the integration of the Platfontein San in South Africa between 1990 and 2003	0
Reimagining money: Kenya in the digital finance revolution	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
Celebrating Alan Barnard (1949–2022): He’s in the Wind	0
Living museums in Namibia: between empowerment and exploitation	0
Covid-19 pandemic and mobility strategies of Chadian roadside vendors in Kousseri, Cameroon	0
More-than-human sociality: the doings of Covid and multispecies relations in Southern Africa	0
“Sex is sex, marriage is marriage”: infidelity amongst married women in Shamva, Zimbabwe	0
uMama wekhaya: local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa	0
Women and peacebuilding in Africa	0
Sites of contestation: encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien	0
Editorial	0

“Lydiate is now our home of a sort”: perceptions of place amongst ageing first-generation Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe	0
Editorial	0
Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza	0
Introduction: Multispecies encounters in conservation landscapes in Southern Africa	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
Introduction	0
Correction	0
The contested lands of Laikipia: histories of claims and conflicts in a Kenyan landscape	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
Editorial	0
Township economy: people, spaces, and practices	0
Conclusion: Situating multispecies relations in Southern Africa in their local historical and political contexts	0
Hunting the hippo: a brief history of wildlife hunting and the reconfiguration of animal-human relations in Namibia’s Zambezi region	0
Beyond the “single story” of vaccine hesitancy: “studying up” a public health response to vaccine-associated polio in South Africa	0
The Materiality of Lake Kariba: Water, Livelihoods, Belonging and Conservation	0
“Armed with faith”: church membership, Pentecostal beliefs and migrant belonging in Harare, Zimbabwe	0
Memorandum on the problem of farm labour (1937)	0
Securing land rights: communal land reform in Namibia	0
Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa *Genetic afterlives: black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa* , by Noah Ta	0
Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa: Contested histories and current struggles	0
Co-producing knowledge and care in team-based fieldwork in the Covid-19 era	0
Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town	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
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously	0
A meeting with gardenia: an ethnographic exploration of multispecies relationships and space construction in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden	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
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
Tragedy, trauma and infinite possibility	0
The laziness myth: narratives of work and the good life in South Africa	0
Continuity and discontinuity of rituals: Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Africa	0
“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes	0
“Becoming a somebody”: mobility, patronage and reconfiguration of transactional sexual relationships in postcolonial Africa	0
Experiencing the uncertainty of development: ethnographic notes from central and northern Mozambique	0
Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900	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 making, unmaking and adaptation of Mayeyi multispecies entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti wetlands: eighteenth century to 1990	0
Introduction: When the scaffolds give way	0
Cities of entanglements: social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison	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
“ 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
A companion to the anthropology of Africa	0
Death of a discipline? Reflections on the history, state, and future of social anthropology in Zimbabwe	0
Contested landscapes: fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania	0
“The issues still persist”: a roundtable discussion of perpetual crisis, the massification of grief and joyful black futures	0
Liminal bodies left in perpetual suspension: social, cultural and political-economic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern African contexts	0
“Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below	0
A possible anthropology: methods for uneasy times	0