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Call for abstracts:

Lessons from Archie Mafeje for Contemporary Anthropology: A symposium

The Archie Mafeje Chair in Critical and Decolonial Humanities at the University of Cape Town, and the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal, have the pleasure to invite submissions for presentations at a symposium on the theme of ‘Lessons from Archie Mafeje for Contemporary Anthropology’, to be held at the University of Cape Town on Thursday the 20^th and Friday the 21^st of June, 2019. Following the symposium, we invite full papers to be submitted toward a special issue in the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal, to be published in March 2020.

The legacy of Archie Mafeje is well-known in Southern African social science, and of late there is an emerging body of work that critically situates Mafeje as a figure within the knowledge politics of apartheid and beyond. Less work has been done, however, by anthropologists seriously engaging with Mafeje as an anthropological theorist. Mafeje has been highly critical of anthropology, yet paradoxically claimed it as his discipline of choice in the production of knowledge. We suggest that the paradox is suggestive and very provocative for the discipline. In this symposium, we aim to think together about the provocations to anthropology that exist in Mafeje’s corpus of work, and how those provocations – methodological, ethnographic, political – can be brought to bear on present day anthropological scholarship.

We seek particularly presentations that address the following set of questions:

Theoretical interventions: What do we see as the key provocations of Mafeje to anthropology? How might we work with those provocations today?
Methodological interventions: what did Mafeje understand by ethnography? How might we apply his notions of the ethnographic project to contemporary work?
Intellectual interventions: What can we learn from Mafeje’s work on the ways in which intellectual ideas were formed and travelled at the time? The influence of scholars such as Monica Wilson on Mafeje’s early writings is fairly clear and well-known, but what other influences, from inside and outside of the academy, can we see? How might an exploration of these alternative intellectual histories tell us something different to conventional histories of anthropological thought in Southern Africa?
Conceptual interventions: Mafeje has critiqued the understanding of the relationship between rural/urban economies propagated in 1970s South Africa by authors such as Wolpe and Legassick. Can we read ‘classic’ ethnographies differently if we take Mafeje’s reading of the rural seriously?

While we seek to fund successful participants for either their travel or accommodations costs (not both), there is a limited amount of funding available. Preference will be given to those scholars whose papers directly address the key issues outlined above. We particularly encourage young black emergent scholars to present papers.

Timeline and Submission Guidelines:

Please send abstracts to Shahid.vawda@uct.ac.za and Shannon.morreira@uct.ac.za by 31 March 2019.
Notification of acceptance: by 15 April 2019
Submission of draft presentation by May 31 2019 (papers can be rough as the aim is to discuss ideas during the symposium, and to re-shape papers accordingly afterwards)
Submission of full paper for the special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa: 15 October 2019
Reviewer feedback 10 December 2019
Revised papers due 10 January 2020
Publication of peer-reviewed and accepted papers: Vol 43, Issue 1 (March 2020)

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Anthropology Southern Africa

Aims and Scope

Anthropology Southern Africa (ASNA) is the peer-reviewed journal of the Anthropology Southern Africa association. Formerly the South African Journal of Ethnology (1994–2001), the journal changed name and focus in 2002. The journal aims to promote anthropology in Southern Africa, to support ethnographic and theoretical research, and to provide voices to public debates.

Anthropology Southern Africa is committed to contemporary perspectives in social and cultural anthropology and in relevant interdisciplinary scholarship. It looks at the current conditions in Southern African, African, and Global societies, taking into consideration varied challenges such as the politics of difference, or poverty and dignity. We have recently published on topics, which include, among others, cities and urbanism, new religious movements, popular culture, social media, neoliberalism, nationalism, racism, social memory, protests and social movements, health and illness, or human rights.

The journal publishes work on and from Southern Africa including Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. We occasionally publish material on and from other countries, where this is deemed relevant for Southern African perspectives.

Anthropology Southern Africa is firmly based within the region while also reaching out and attracting work by a range of regional and international scholars, who are committed to Southern African scholarship. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research articles, book reviews, commentary, and other material relevant to engaged scholarly discourse within and outside Anthropology. The journal is listed in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index.

ISSN: 2332-3256 (Print)
2332-3264 (Online)

Impact Factor: 0.6 (2022)
5-year Impact Factor: 0.6 (2022)

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Contact: Editorial assistant: asaedassistant@gmail.com

Details: Created: 23 November 2011

Instructions for authors

Editorial Policy

Articles based on original research, review articles, short communications, and commentary (on articles which have appeared in this Journal) from any field of Anthropology may be published in the Journal. Articles submitted must be in English.

Submission

Microsoft Word compatible electronic copy must be submitted to Taylor and Francis' online platform at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rasa and will be submitted to at least two referees for evaluation. Manuscripts may be returned to authors for revision, or if style or presentation do not comply with the standards of the Journal. Copyright of published material vests in Anthropology Southern Africa. Authors assume full responsibility for the factual correctness of their contributions. Authors are also responsible for the accuracy of language, grammar and syntax etc. of their contributions and must be prepared to have the language editing of their contributions done independently if necessary. Papers are submitted to Anthropology Southern Africa should not have been accepted for publication or published elsewhere. Opinions expressed are those of the authors themselves and are not necessarily endorsed by the Editors or Anthropology Southern Africa.

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Layout

All manuscripts must be typed or printed, on one side only of A4 paper, with at least 1.5 line spacing in not smaller than 12-point typeface, a margin of 30mm on the left, and with extra space above the sub-headings.
For articles and short communications: the first page must contain the following, in sequence:
• Title of the contribution. Titles must not be longer than 15 words, and must contain sufficient information for use in title lists or for coding for purposes of storing or retrieving information
• The author's/authors' surnames(s) and initials
• The name and complete postal address of the university/institution
• English abstract (with a translation if the articles is not written in English)
• Current e-mail and complete postal address of the first author if this differs from the first address.

Abstracts and keywords

An abstract (length approx. 150 words) must reflect the contents of the text faithfully and concisely, and be suitable for separate publication and indexing. Abstracts of short communications must be limited to one or two sentences. Each contribution must include six to eight keywords.
Text: Pages must be numbered sequentially. headings should not be numbered or underlined, but main headings and secondary headings must be distinguished from each other, e.g. by case, bold, font, etc. Items to be italicised including all words in a language other than that in which the article is written, must be underlined in the manuscript.
Contributions should contain the following: objective, problem statement, method and duration of research, structure, findings and interpretation of findings (conclusion), expect where the nature of a contribution does not lend itself to such a prescriptive structure (e.g. contributions to a discourse).

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Punctuation

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Translation

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References: quick guide

Book
Nairn, T. 1997. Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited. London: Verso.
Chapter in book
Roell, C.H. 1994. "The Piano in the American Home." In The Arts and the American Home, 1890 - 1930, ed. J. H. Foy and K. A. Marling, 193-204. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
Edition
Smith, John, ed. 2012. Collected Style Manuals. Abingdon: Routledge.
Reprinted work
Fielding, H. (1749) 2005. The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling. London: Penguin Classics.
Journal article
Liker, A. and T. Szekely. 1997. "Aggression Among Female Lapwings, Vanellus vanellus." Animal Behaviour. 54 (3): 797-802.
Website
Yetman, Norman R. 2001. "An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives." Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html.

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