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    Writing about Sexuality in Maputo, Mozambique in Contemporary Times

    By Sandra Manuel
    March 29, 2021
    Doing More on Sexuality Series: Writing about Sexuality in Mozambique
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    Culture, Covid and Social Cohesion in Rural Southern Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    March 16, 2021
    Social rules in rural South Africa ahead of the Third Wave
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  • AnthropologyCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasDecolonisationSocial PolicySouth Africa

    The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

    By Leslie Bank
    February 25, 2021
    Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero
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    Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times

    By Leslie Bank Aneza Madini
    February 10, 2021
    Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
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    Plastic Bodies, Public Policy and Popular Anger in Rural South Africa

    By Mark Paterson Leslie Bank
    February 2, 2021
    How the South African Government got it wrong on Covid-19 burials
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  • AnthropologyCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic HealthSouth Africa

    Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

    By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
    July 31, 2020
    Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid
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    Village Life in Modern Africa – Review of Camila Toulmin’s Land, Investment and Migration: Thirty-five Years of Village Life in Mali

    By Richard Dowden
    June 16, 2020
    Camilla Toulmin documents the deepest historic change that humanity makes; the change from hand-to-mouth farming to modern agriculture.
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    People’s Science and Translocality in South Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    June 15, 2020
    Can failure to take account of social embeddedness of economics account for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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    Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

    By Paul Richards
    June 1, 2020
    Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?
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  • AnthropologyChadCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic HealthSenegal

    Lifeworlds in Crisis – Covid-19 Governmental Restrictions in Senegal and Chad

    By Andrea Behrends Babacar Fall Remadji Hoinathy
    May 6, 2020
    How to cope with the new Covid-19 social isolation restrictions rules varies as solutions are also culture-specific.
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