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This book explores the history and changing meanings attached to particular sports in the old and new South Africa, and how sport is being used and abused in the present. ... Read more

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This book is suitable for ages 9 to 14 years. Fabulous photographs reveal the breathtaking beauty of South Africa from Table Mountain near Cape Town to the dry veldt in the north. ... Read more

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South Africa - general overview
The geography of South Africa is the main focus of this title. Within this subject too many topics are touched on for a 32 page book that is nearly 50% pictures. Each topic, including weather, plants, animals, industry, people, etc., is given a very quick overview but none are given much depth. A glossary and index are incuded. A pronounciation guide for non-English words would have been helpful. For someone interested in general information about this part of the world this is an OK choice. For someone looking for research material - keep looking. ... Read more

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This book is suitable for ages 9 to 14 years. You can learn about the daily lives and family traditions of the people who have lived in this land for thousands of years. Breathtaking photos create intimate portraits of life in both the village and the big city. ... Read more

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The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president ofSouth Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginningof a new struggle to define the nation’s past.History AfterApartheid analyzes how, in the midst of the momentous shift to aninclusive democracy, South Africa’s visual and material culturerepresented the past while at the same time contributing to the veryprocess of social transformation . Considering attempts to invent andrecover historical icons and narratives, art historian AnnieE. Coombes examines how strategies for embodying different models ofhistorical knowledge and experience are negotiated in public culture– in monuments, museums, and contemporary fine art.

History After Apartheid explores the dilemmas posed by a wide range ofvisual and material culture including key South African heritagesites. How prominent should Nelson Mandela and the African NationalCongress be in the museum at the infamous political prison on RobbenIsland? How should the post-apartheid government deal with theVoortrekker Monument mythologizing the Boer Trek of 1838? Coombeshighlights the contradictory investment in these sites among competingconstituencies and the tensions involved in the rush to produce newhistories for the ‘new’ South Africa.

She reveals how artists and museum officials struggled to adequatelyrepresent painful and difficult histories ignored or disavowed underapartheid, including slavery, homelessness, and the attempteddestruction of KhoiSan hunter-gatherers. Describing how contemporarySouth African artists address historical memory and the ambiguitiesuncovered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Coombesilluminates a body of work dedicated to the struggle to simultaneouslyremember the past and move forward into the future. ... Read more

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The contributions to this Discussion Paper reflect upon different but related aspects of South African democracy after Apartheid as represented in a variety of social forces, institutions and individuals. They illustrate that societies in transition have to make sustained efforts to overcome the legacies of the past, and that the present reproduces some of the past structural constraints and patterns of power and control in the new framework. The contri-butions were originally presented to a workshop organized in Cape Town in December 2001. ... Read more

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The book describes the identity formation and culture of the male homosexual in South Africa. It deals with topics such as the gay sub-culture, AIDS, implications for helping professionals, crisis about "coming out," and the formal gay movement. Repeated reference is made to case studies. Challenging several misconceptions about homosexuality, this work provides insight into the nature of homosexual identity. ... Read more

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A timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community. ... Read more

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There is a surprising resurgence of traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. Yet customary law studies highlight the artificial origins of these 'traditional' institutions. This book poses three questions: what is the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law in the new South Africa? Why are they changing in this way? and, what does this teach us about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the post-modern world? BARBARA OOMEN is Assistant Professor of Law & Development in the University of Amsterdam North America: Palgrave; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press ... Read more

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great but...
This is a major work in the ethnography of post-apartheid South Africa, and in political and legal anthropology, combining multi-sited rural fieldwork with analysis of national politics, providing one of the few detailed empirical studies of rural peoples' complex attitudes towards traditional authorities, and offering great insights into the persistence and resurgence of traditional authorities in contemporary SA.

Unfortunately it is absurdly priced.I would love to use it in a political anthro. course, but could never imagine asking my students to shell out for it.Hopefully the UKZN Press edition is cheaper in South Africa than it is here. ... Read more