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Faculty of Humanities
Anthropology Section
Head of Section: Professor Francis Nyamnjoh
Section Profile
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
2
Technical and Clerical Staff
1
Total
9
Honorary staff
Honorary Professors
4
Honorary Research Associates
20
Total
24
Students
Post-Doctoral
1
Doctoral
24
Master’s
27
Honours
15
Undergraduate
843
Total
910
Research Fields and Staff
Dr Divine Fuh
Joined the University of Cape Town in March 2012 from
the University of Basel in Switzerland where he was senior
researcher at the Chair for Research and Methodology in
the Institute for Sociology. His research mainly focused on
questions relating to youth, agency and transitions in West
and Southern African cities with particular thematic focus
on consumption, popular culture, sports, masculinities,
elites, space and transnational citizenship. He is currently
researching on how young people contribute towards
transforming urban communities in Johannesburg and
Cape Town, and how they make youth an end rather than
stagnated transitional stage?
Dr Lesley Green
Anthropology of knowledge; anthropology of the
environment; lowland South America; cultural astronomy;
public archaeology; ethnographic research methodologies.
Professor Carolyn Hamilton
Carolyn Hamilton is the National Research Foundation
(NRF) Professor in Archive and Public Culture at the
University of Cape Town and a member of the Public
Life of Ideas Research Network. Formerly director of the
Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Research Project and
the Graduate School for the Humanities at the University
of the Witwatersrand, she has published widely on history
and theory of archive; ethnography of memory work; the
production of history; the history of pre-industrial southern
Africa; the public life of ideas; public culture.
Dr Susan Levine
Child labour; children’s health; visual anthropology; political
economy; medical anthropology; gender and sexuality;
HIV/AIDS; community development.
Dr Helen Macdonald
Violence, narrative, scepticism and the everyday, pluralistic
health, and magico-religious knowledge, witchcraft in
India, transformation in Higher Education
Professor Francis Nyamnjoh
Joined the University of Cape Town in August 2009
from the Council for the Development of Social Science
Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he served as Head
of Publications from July 2003 to July 2009. Dr Nyamnjoh
is a 2010 B2 NRF rated researcher, and a fellow of the
Cameroon Academy of Science since August 2011. He is
currently researching “ICTs, Mobility and Marginality”, and
has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media
and the politics of identity in Africa. He has also published
ethnographic novels.
Associate Professor Fiona Ross
Ethnographies of/and the Marginal. Domestic worlds;
violence, loss and the recuperation of social worlds;
gender, testimony and voice; truth and reconciliation.
Associate Professor Andrew Spiegel
Housing and migration patterns and family relationships;
urban water and sanitation management - South Africa;
comparative pedagogies; racism; history of South African
anthropology.