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Abortion services and reproductive justice in rural South Africa
Ulandi du Plessis, Catriona Ida Macleod
Accessing abortion services in rural areas under conditions of liberal abortion legislation is neither straightforward nor simple. As the South African example shows, the liberalisation of abortion legislation was the first step in granting pregnant…
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Acts of transgression
contemporary live art in South Africa
Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle
In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa. Set against a contemporary South African society that is chrono…
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African archaeology without frontiers
papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of "ages" that in reality overlap and cannot and should not b…
Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2017,
Paperback,
264 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781776140343
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2017,
Paperback,
264 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781776140343
African Ark. Mammals, landscape and the ecology of a continent
Ara Monadjem, Mike Unwin
Настоящее издание содержит результаты научного исследования, в процессе которого был установлен факт, позволяющий определить первый период деятельности института следствия Российской империи на территории Сибирского региона и города Томска. Автор: Н…
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African dream machines: style, identity and meaning of African headrests
Anitra Nettleton
African headrests have been moved out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of 'art' objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book in…
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A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014
Peter Delius, Laura Phillips, Fiona Rankin-Smith
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creat…
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And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses
Four Works
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda, legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948), is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays. He is currently a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Li…
Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
1994,
Paperback,
176 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868142224
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
1994,
Paperback,
176 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868142224
And wrote my story anyway
Black South African women’s novels as feminism
Barbara Boswell
В книге отражены важные и дискуссионные проблемы истории советской экономики: характер и механизмы ее функционирования, государственные продовольственные резервы страны, демографические последствия экономической политики. В основе работы лежит архив…
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Anxious Joburg
The inner lives of a global South city
Nicky Falkof (ed.)
Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Global South cities are often characterised as sites of contradiction and difference that produce a rang…
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Apartheid spies and the revolutionary underground
Billy Keniston
On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeanette Schoon and her six-year-old daughter Katryn. The Schoons were members of the revolutionary undergr…
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Archives of times past
Conversations about South Africa’s deep history
Kros C.,
Wright J.,
Buthelezi M.
Archives of Times Past explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: ‘How do …
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Babel unbound
Rage, reason and rethinking public life
Lesley Cowling, Carolyn Hamilton (eds.)
Drawing primarily on insights and materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, the authors in this volume propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. The cases examined show …
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Bafana Republic and other satires
A collection of monologues and revues
Mike van Graan
Переговоры представителей СССР, США, Великобритании и Франции по Западному Берлину представляли собой дипломатический марафон со множеством препятствий. На его начальном этапе казалось, что взгляды сторон по большинству аспектов западноберлинского в…
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Beadwork, art and the body
Dilo Tše Dintshi
Anitra Nettleton (ed.), Bheki Peterson
South African beadwork has a rich and diverse history and is abundantly represented in the beaded art pieces in the Wits Art Museum (WAM) collection. Paying homage to this collection, Beadwork, Art and the Body is a compilation of essays by scholars…
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Being Black in the World
N. Chabani Manganyi
Being-Black-in-the-World, one of N. Chabani Manganyi’s first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule and the emergence of Black Consciousness in the mid-1…
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Between worlds
German missionaries and the transition from Mission to Bantu education in South Africa
Linda Chisholm
The transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of its influence in present-day South Africa. This is particularly so in education. Between Worlds scrutinises the experience of a h…
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Bill Freund
An historian’s passage to Africa
Bill Freund
Bill Freund, the late social historian and leading analyst of African history, passed away in 2020 soon after finishing his autobiography. Often described as the academy’s ‘outsider insider’, he was an eminent South African historian who published p…
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Bones and bodies
How South African scientists studied race
Alan G Morris
Віктор_Робот, найголовніший механік штучної зорі Зоряни, прилітає на Землю до дівчинки Віки — онучки винахідника Зоряни. Його мета — дізнатися, як була створена залізна зірка й для кого вона має світити. Віка не може відповісти на всі запитання Вікт…
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Bushman Letters
Interpreting the/Xam Narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection
Michael Wessels
The "Bleek and Lloyd Collection" consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870's by a number of Xam informants. This bo…
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Can Themba
The making and breaking of the intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography
Siphiwo Mahala
This rich and absorbing biography of Can Themba, iconic Drum-era journalist and writer, is the definitive history of a larger-than-life man who died too young. Siphiwo Mahala's intensive and often fresh research features unprecedented archival acces…
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Cape radicals
intellectual and political thought of the new era fellowship, 1930s-1960s
Crain Soudien
In 1937, a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa, embarked on a remarkable public education and cultural project. They called it the New Era Fellowship (NEF). In different forums – public debates…
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Capitalism's crises
class struggles in South Africa and the world
(
Book 2
)
Vishwas Satgar
This volume draws on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. The analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or def…
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Cast in a racial mould. Labour process and trade unionism in the foundries
Edward Webster, Michael Burawoy
First published by Ravan Press in 1985, Cast in a Racial Mould was a pioneering book. It is now republished by Wits University Press with a new foreword by Michael Burawoy and with support from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sc…
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Children in mind
Their mental health in today’s world and what we can do to help them
Jenny Perkel
Current research shows that certain childhood mental disorders are diagnosed more frequently today than in previous generations. Many of today’s children and teenagers are more unhappy, anxious and distressed than young people used to be. In this hi…
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Citizen and Pariah
Somali traders and the regulation of difference in South Africa
Vanya Gastrow
Citizen and Pariah explores the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa by investigating Somali informal shopkeepers’ experiences of crime, justice and regulation in the country. Through a narrative account of their local experienc…
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