Authors

Question 1

Week 1

Answer 1

Founding South African Anthropology

Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel & Lucy Catherine Lloyd. 1911. Specimens of Bushman folklore. London: G.
Allen & Company, Ltd, pp. 380-401.

Webb, C. Deb. & J.B. Wright. (eds). 1976. The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the
history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples. Volume One. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press & Durban: Killie Campbell Africana Library, Baleka ba Mpitikasi, pp. 11-13.

Junod, 1912. The Life of a South African tribe. Neuchatel: Imprimerie Attinger Freres, pp. 250-258.

2. Radcliffe-Brown. A. R. I924. The mother’s brother in South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 21: 542-
4. Bank, A., 2015. Introduction: Rethinking the canon. In Pioneers of the Field: South Africa’s Women Anthropologists.
   New York: Cambridge University Press., pp. 1-14.

Question 2

Week 2

Answer 2

The Golden Age

1. Hunter, M. 1979 [1936]. Beef and Beer parties. In Reaction to Conquest: Effects of contact with Europeans on
   the Pondo of South Africa. Cape Town: David Phillip, pp 356-377
2. Gluckman, Max. 1940a. Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand. Bantu Studies, 14: 1-30
3. Krige, Eileen & Jacob Daniel Krige. 1943. The realm of the rain queen: A study of the Pattern of Lovedu
   Society. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-5 and 164-185.

Question 3

Week 3

Answer 3

Urban research

1. Mayer, Phillip. 1961. Townsmen or Tribesmen: Urbanization in a divided society. Oxford University Press: Cape
   Town. Chapter 11: Red migrants outside incapsulation, pp. 178-191.
2. Wilson, Monica & Archie Mafeje. 1963. Langa: a study of social groups in an African township. Oxford University
   Press: Oxford, pp. 13-46.
3. Hellman, Ellen. 1948. Rooiyard. A sociological survey of an urban native slum yard. Rhodes-Livingstone Papers,
   pp. 1-21.

Question 4

Week 4

Answer 4

Tradition and change

1. Kuper, H. 1972. A royal ritual in a changing political context. Cahiers d’études Africaines, 12: 593-615.
2. Ngubane, H. 1976. Some notions of ‘purity’ and ‘impurity’ among the Zulu. Africa, 46(3):274-284.
3. Kuper, Adam. 1982. Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa. London: Routledge &
   Kegan Paul, pp. 1-25.

Question 5

Week 5

Answer 5

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1985. Waiting: The Whites of South Africa. New York: Random House, pp. 16-47.

Niehaus, Isak. 2012. Witchcraft and the South African Bantustans: Evidence from Bushbuckridge. South
African Historical Journal, 64(1): 41-58 .

Question 6

Week 6

Answer 6

Lecture 15: Christianity, belief and prophecy
Required reading:
Van Wyk, Ilana. 2014. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A church of strangers. Cambridge
University Press: Cambridge, pp. 1-36.

Lecture 16: Sex and gender
Required reading:
Reid, Graeme. 2013. How to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small-town South Africa. University of KwaZulu-
Natal Press, pp. 49-96.

Lecture 17: Music
Required reading:
Coplan, David. B. 1987. Eloquent Knowledge: Lesotho Migrants’ Songs and the Anthropology of Experience.
American Ethnologist, 14(3), 413–433.

Question 7

Week 7

Answer 7

Lecture 18: Cannibalising capital
Required reading:
Bank, L. 1990. The making of the Qwaqwa ‘mafia’? Patronage and protection in the migrant taxi business.
African Studies, 49(10): 71-94.

Lecture 19: Izikhotane and Conspicuous Consumption
Required reading:
Mnisi, Jabulani. G. 2019. Booty on Fire: Looking at izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen. In Deborah Posel and
Ilana van Wyk (eds). Conspicuous consumption in Africa. Wits University Press: Johannesburg, pp. 168-182.