Research Articles (Anthropology and Sociology)

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    Pertinent African accounts of ambivalence and benefits in commuter marriages
    (Cogent OA, 2022) Kumswa, Sahmicit Kankemwa; Agboola, Caroline; Kang�Ethe, Simon
    The article attempts to unpack the ambivalence and benefits of commuter marriages. The study applied a qualitative paradigm, as well as a qualitative approach to investigate 17 participants between the ages of 30 to 52 (13 women and 4 men), of various occupations including bankers, civil/public servants, businessmen and women, lecturers, lawyers, teachers, managers of private organisations politicians, sales representatives, and medical doctors. All of them were married, had children and engaged in commuter marriages, but with the men being commuters while the women remained in the primary residence. The participants had an average of two children each.
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    South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies?
    (American Anthropological Association, 2015) Becker, Heike; Spiegel, Andrew D.
    A direct result of South Africa�s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology�s South African trajectories. This was particularly true for the apartheid era between 1948 and the early 1990s when, as Robert Gordon and Andrew Spiegel (1993:86) have observed, South African anthropology had largely succumbed to apartheid as the dominant power in the country and in the region as a whole, with �its discourse perniciously dictating what should be written by both its supporters and, significantly, its opponents.� Yet, as we demonstrate in this article, sociopolitical historical circumstances were momentous factors in the development of the discipline from its beginnings in South Africa in the early 1920s, and they continue to influence contemporary debates and practices.