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    Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
    (Routledge, 2016) Becker, Heike
    South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter in an ethnographic study based in Tanzania, a preferred destination for South African business. The country presents a particularly interesting example of the post-apartheid social, cultural and political dynamics of "South Africa in Africa" since Tanzania had been one of the apartheid regime's staunchest enemies. Schroeder starts off with observations of white South African expatriates he met in Tanzania; the book's core theme, however, is the country's and the wider African region's dilemma in an era that saw both the rise of neoliberalism and the fall of apartheid.
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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.