full report - UCT - Research Report 2011

Dumbe, Y. and Tayob, A.I. 2011. Salafis in Cape Town in
Search of Purity, Certainty and Social Impact. Die Welt des
Islams, 51: 188-209.
Gifford, P. and Nogueira-Godsey, D. 2011. The Protestant
Ethic and African Pentecostalism: A Case Study. Journal
for the Study of Religion, 24(1): 5-22.
Hoel, N. 2011. Flirtations with Muslim Female Sexuality.
Annual review of Islam in South Africa, 2008-2009(10):
30-34.
Hoel, N. and Nogueira, E. 2011. Transforming Feminisms:
Religion, Women, and Ecology. Journal for the Study of
Religion, 24(2): 5-15.
Hoel, N., Shaikh, S. and Kagee, A. 2011. Muslim women’s
reflections on the acceptability of vaginal microbicidal
products to prevent HIV infection. Ethnicity & Health, 16(2):
89-106.
Holness, L.J. 2011. Christ and “The Green Man”. Journal of
Theology for Southern Africa, 139: 80-90.
Masondo, S.T. 2011. African Traditional Religion in the face
of Secularism in South Africa. Focus, August 2011(62):
32-38.
Shaikh, S., Hoel, N. and Kagee, A. 2011. South African
Women: Sexuality, marriage and reproductive choices.
Journal for Islamic Studies, 31: 96-121.
Tayob, A.I. 2011. Islam and Democracy in South Africa.
Focus, August 2011(62): 20-24.
peer-reviewed published conference proceedings
Brigaglia, A. 2011. Hausa Writings by 20th Century’s
Nigerian Tijni scholars: Notes on a Research in Progress.
In S. Baldi and H. Miko Yakasai (eds), Proceedings of the
3rd International Conference on Hausa Studies: African
and European Perspectives, 5-6 July 2010, Universita
degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy. Napoli: Universit degli
Studi di Napoli. ISSN 1828-5910.
De Gruchy, J.W. 2011. A Christian humanist perspective.
In J.W. de Gruchy (ed.), The Humanist Imperative in South
Africa, June 2009 and February 2010. Stellenbosch: Sun
Press. ISBN 978-1-920338-56-5.
De Gruchy, J.W. 2011. Invitation to a Conversation. In J.W.
de Gruchy (ed.), The Humanist Imperative in South Africa,
June 2009 and February 2010. Stellenbosch: Sun Press.
ISBN 978-1-920338-56-5.
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The Department’s research has a wide theoretical range
with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on southern
Africa. Study areas include child labour, citizenship,
domestic dynamics, ethnicity, gender and sexuality,
marginality, memory, migration, narrative, urban processes,
violence, Truth and Reconciliation. Other topics include
comparative pedagogies, identity construction, medical
anthropology, anthropology of knowledge, anthropology of
the environment.
dEPARtmEntAl stAtistics
permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors 2
Associate Professors 2
senior lecturers 2
lecturers 1
technical and clerical staff 2
total 9
Honorary staff
honorary Professors 4
honorary Research Associates 17
total 21
students
Postdoctoral 1
doctoral 24
master’s 20
honours 14
undergraduate 846
total 905
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Anthropology of knowledge; anthropology of the
environment; lowland South America; cultural astronomy;
public archaeology; ethnographic research methodologies.
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