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Mbeki and After
Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
Daryl Glaser
For nearly 10 years—indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency—Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little do…
$69,00
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Picturing Change
Curating Visual Culture at Post-Apartheid Universities
Brenda Schmahmann
Since South Africa’s transition to democracy, many of the country’s universities have acquired new works of art that convey messages about the advantages of cultural diversity, and engage critically with histories of racial intolerance and conflict.…
Wits University Press
Johannesburg,
2013,
Paperback,
282 p., color il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868145805
SA00393
$82,00
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg,
2013,
Paperback,
282 p., color il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868145805
SA00393
Regarding Muslims
From slavery to post-apartheid
Gabeba Baderoon
In contrast to the themes of extremism and alienation that dominate Western portrayals of Muslims, Regarding Muslims explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, which oscillates with more disquiet…
$74,00
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Healing the exposed being
The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa
Robert Thornton
Explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practised in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Bungoma" is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands that is based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed …
$67,00
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Dungamanzi
Tsonga and Shangaan art from southern Africa
Nessa Leibhammer, Johannesburg Art Gallery
Showcases some of South Africa's most treasured heritage, aiming to make readers aware of the high degree of artistic skill that exists in South Africa. This book features Tsonga and Shangaan art, culture and heritage, and accompanies an exhibition …
Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2007,
Paperback,
232 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868144495
SA00623
$98,00
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2007,
Paperback,
232 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868144495
SA00623
Capitalism's crises
class struggles in South Africa and the world
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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…
$77,00
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Visionary animal
rock art from Southern Africa
Renaud Ego, Deke Dusinberre
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? To answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined the rock art of the San of southern Africa. This collection of essays is beautif…
$159,00
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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…
Wits University Press
Johannesburg,
2019,
Paperback,
375 p., color il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781776142798
SA00745
$112,00
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg,
2019,
Paperback,
375 p., color il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781776142798
SA00745
Dorothea Bleek
a life of scholarship
Jill Weintroub
Dorothea Bleek (1873 to 1948) devoted her life to completing the "bushman researches" that her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. The book examines Dorothea's life story and family legacy, her rock art resear…
$68,00
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Transforming research methods in the social sciences
Case studies from South Africa
Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn, Sherianne Kramer (eds.)
Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and ge…
$93,00
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The state of Secularism
Religion, tradition and democracy in South Africa
Dhammamegha Annie Leatt
Guides the reader from a history of global political secularism through an exploration of the roles played by religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa to the position of religion in the post-apartheid state.
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Race otherwise
Forging a new humanism for South Africa
Zimitri Erasmus
How is "race" determined? Is it your DNA? The community that you were raised in? The way others see you or the way you see yourself? In Race Otherwise Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know race with one's eyes, with racial categorie…
$88,00
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Multilingualism and intercultural communication
A South African perspective
Russell H. Kaschula, Pamela Maseko, H. Ekkehard Wolff (eds.)
To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. This volume breaks new ground in this arena. Its scope ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions p…
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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…
$75,00
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Visual Century
South African Art in Context : 1945-1976
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Volume 2
)
Lize van Robbroeck
This four-volume publication reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century from a postapartheid perspective. This second volume discusses how, between the end of the Second World War and the Soweto Uprisings, South Africa was increasingly…
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Visual Century
South African Art in Context: 1907–1948
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Volume 1
)
Lize van Robbroeck
Reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century from a post-apartheid perspective. It is the only publication that provides an overview of a century of South African art, with in-depth discussion by leading art historians and reproduction o…
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Working with rock art
recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge
Knut Helskog
Contains cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to cons…
$87,00
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Tell our story
Multiplying voices in the news media
Julie Reid, Dale T. McKinley
Tell Our Story investigates the problem of disproportionate media representation and offers a hands-on demonstration of listening journalism and research in practice to promote a more active engagement between journalists and local communities. In t…
$63,00
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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 …
$108,00
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Rock. Water. Life
Ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa
Lesley Green
In Rock. Water. Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that c…
$220,00
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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…
$56,00
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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…
$71,00
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Prisoners of the past
South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule
Steven Friedman
South Africa’s democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement of 1994, it is claimed, ended racial domination and created the foundation for a prosperous democrac…
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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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Restless infections. Public art and a transforming city
Jay Pather (ed.)
Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing di…
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