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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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13:30-15:00

Session 5A Photography and Heritage


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


****Transport to Airport and East London Ready****

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ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTHERN AFRICA CONFERENCE HOSTED …asnahome.org/images/documents/conferences/2010_Conference.pdf · Leslie UFH Hidden ethnographies and the Anthropology of ... Levine