Kees Van Der Waal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80647 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kees Van Der Waal |
| NOMBRES | Kees |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Waal |
| FIRMA | VAN DER WAAL K |
| AFILIACIONES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9527-1513 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens
Several critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up to the closure of their department. The article uses a network approach to unravel how volkekundiges at the university were entangled with Afrikaner …
Creating the Coloured Other in South Africa in Light of the “Jewish Question” in Germany
This article offers a response to Warren Goldstein’s analysis of the racialisation of the “Jewish Question.” By analysing the role of Scripture, Afrikaner nationalism and racial science in the production of apartheid, we argue that the insights shared by Goldstein as related to the “Jewish Question” sparks a fertile reflection on the “Coloured Question” in South Africa. While the outcomes differed, the correlations are to be found in the processe…
Obituary
2020). Obituary: Boet Kotze, a radical and prophetic Afrikaans anthropologist (March 4, 1943–July 8, 2020) Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 259-265
Anthropology Southern Africa
Anthropology Southern Africa is the single association of anthropologists in southern Africa, following a century (1903–2001) of disparate organizing, deeply entangled with political conflicts. Anthropology became a highly successful academic field in South Africa in the 1920s. The study of the former British colony's industrialization process made it a vibrant resource for anthropology in the United Kingdom. However, anthropologists were soon sp…
Multiple livelihoods and social relations in the South African Lowveld, 1986–2013
Despite improvements in the last two decades, rural communal areas in South Africa remain dumping grounds, requiring multiple livelihood strategies and social adaptations. Local experience of dispossession forms the backdrop to individual and collective responses to changes in the role of land, labour and reproduction. The ethnographic research focused on a rural settlement in the former Gazankulu Bantustan in the period 1986–2013. Shifts in the …
Humanizing De-Afrikanerized South African Anthropology
Long walk fromvolkekundeto anthropology
This paper stems from a seminar that the author gave at his retirement from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University earlier in 2015. It details his long personal, political and intellectual journey from volkekunde to social anthropology. Written in the register of historical auto-ethnography, the piece details his theoretical paradigm shift and intellectual interlocutors in the process, while also pointing a…
Creolisation and Purity
Language politics about the Afrikaans language are at the heart of struggles over transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Opposing claims and practices over standard Afrikaans and Kaaps, a vernacular spoken mostly by coloured people, emerge in the tense language debate at Stellenbosch. Contrary to the idea of a fixed and pure hegemonic standard language, the notion of creolisation has recently been drawn upon by coloured Afrikaans-speakers…
Victor Turner and liminality
2011). Victor Turner and liminality: An introduction. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 34, Thinking Victor Turner's 'Liminality' from southern Africa today, pp. 1-4
De la Rey' and the Revival of 'Boer Heritage
An Afrikaans popular song about a general of the Anglo-Boer War, ‘De la Rey’ was received with great enthusiasm among white Afrikaans-speakers in 2007, but also generated much controversy about the possible implications of re-ethnicisation among Afrikaners. What did this manifestation of popular culture say about the resilience of Afrikaner identity and the impact of the New South Africa? This article examines the ways in which this song entered …
A return to Turner
This article explores interpretive possibilities offered by the concept of liminality in the context of identity politics in South Africa in an attempt to build on the rich and stimulating work of Victor Turner towards a comparative and contextual analysis. Degrees and variations of liminality are identified; I am interested, for instance, in whether it is part of hegemonic domination or tactical resistance, historically structured or innovative,…
Getting Going
Debates Section
Model Tribes' and Iconic Conservationists? The Makuleke Restitution Case in Kruger National Park
This article investigates how the Makuleke community in Limpopo Province achieved iconic status in relation to land reform and community-based conservation discourses in South Africa and beyond. It argues that the situation may be more complex than it first appears, and the ways in which the Makuleke story has been deployed by NGOs, activists, academics, conservationists, the state and business may be too simplistic. The authors discuss historica…
Introduction toAnthropology Southern Africa, special edition on 'Debating Southern African Anthropology
By challenging anthropologists practising in different southern African contexts to engage in debate, we elicited a rich array of viewpoints and counter-challenges as we gathered articles for this special edition. In this introductory article we set the scene for the special edition, tracking the history of this contentious discipline and sketching the views of the participating authors as they engage with debate from various perspectives. In the…
Shifting paradigms in the new South Africa
Spatial and organisational complexity in the Dwars River Valley, Western Cape
Access to land and housing in South Africa is of great importance to a range of actors, leading to contested processes and complex organisational interactions. Using the anthropology of organisations and a process ethnographic approach, the spatial and organisational complexity in the Dwars River Valley is investigated. The different actors identified include white farm owners, a range of organisations in four villages with different histories, m…
Formal and informal dispute resolution in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
The study of customary law benefits from a focus on both its formal rules and mechanisms and the informal aspect. The complexity of ‘living law’ is best captured by considering process and context. The working of the three-leveled formal traditional courts of the Nkuna Tribal Authority near Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province is complemented by informal mechanisms and processes for adjudication and intervention in conflicts. The civic association, ki…
Re-evaluating South Africa's regional industrial development programme
Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa
(1996). Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa. Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 31-54
The anthropology of anthropological work
The Enigma of Max Gluckman
Victor Turner and liminality
2011). Victor Turner and liminality: An introduction. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 34, Thinking Victor Turner's 'Liminality' from southern Africa today, pp. 1-4
Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa
(1996). Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa. Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 31-54
Model Tribes' and Iconic Conservationists? The Makuleke Restitution Case in Kruger National Park
This article investigates how the Makuleke community in Limpopo Province achieved iconic status in relation to land reform and community-based conservation discourses in South Africa and beyond. It argues that the situation may be more complex than it first appears, and the ways in which the Makuleke story has been deployed by NGOs, activists, academics, conservationists, the state and business may be too simplistic. The authors discuss historica…
Creolisation and Purity
Language politics about the Afrikaans language are at the heart of struggles over transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Opposing claims and practices over standard Afrikaans and Kaaps, a vernacular spoken mostly by coloured people, emerge in the tense language debate at Stellenbosch. Contrary to the idea of a fixed and pure hegemonic standard language, the notion of creolisation has recently been drawn upon by coloured Afrikaans-speakers…
De la Rey' and the Revival of 'Boer Heritage
An Afrikaans popular song about a general of the Anglo-Boer War, ‘De la Rey’ was received with great enthusiasm among white Afrikaans-speakers in 2007, but also generated much controversy about the possible implications of re-ethnicisation among Afrikaners. What did this manifestation of popular culture say about the resilience of Afrikaner identity and the impact of the New South Africa? This article examines the ways in which this song entered …
Shifting paradigms in the new South Africa
Long walk fromvolkekundeto anthropology
This paper stems from a seminar that the author gave at his retirement from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University earlier in 2015. It details his long personal, political and intellectual journey from volkekunde to social anthropology. Written in the register of historical auto-ethnography, the piece details his theoretical paradigm shift and intellectual interlocutors in the process, while also pointing a…
Formal and informal dispute resolution in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
The study of customary law benefits from a focus on both its formal rules and mechanisms and the informal aspect. The complexity of ‘living law’ is best captured by considering process and context. The working of the three-leveled formal traditional courts of the Nkuna Tribal Authority near Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province is complemented by informal mechanisms and processes for adjudication and intervention in conflicts. The civic association, ki…
Introduction toAnthropology Southern Africa, special edition on 'Debating Southern African Anthropology
By challenging anthropologists practising in different southern African contexts to engage in debate, we elicited a rich array of viewpoints and counter-challenges as we gathered articles for this special edition. In this introductory article we set the scene for the special edition, tracking the history of this contentious discipline and sketching the views of the participating authors as they engage with debate from various perspectives. In the…
The anthropology of anthropological work
Debates Section
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens
Several critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up to the closure of their department. The article uses a network approach to unravel how volkekundiges at the university were entangled with Afrikaner …
Obituary
2020). Obituary: Boet Kotze, a radical and prophetic Afrikaans anthropologist (March 4, 1943–July 8, 2020) Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 259-265
Humanizing De-Afrikanerized South African Anthropology
A return to Turner
This article explores interpretive possibilities offered by the concept of liminality in the context of identity politics in South Africa in an attempt to build on the rich and stimulating work of Victor Turner towards a comparative and contextual analysis. Degrees and variations of liminality are identified; I am interested, for instance, in whether it is part of hegemonic domination or tactical resistance, historically structured or innovative,…
The anthropology of anthropological work
Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa
(1996). Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa. Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 31-54
Re-evaluating South Africa's regional industrial development programme
Formal and informal dispute resolution in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
The study of customary law benefits from a focus on both its formal rules and mechanisms and the informal aspect. The complexity of ‘living law’ is best captured by considering process and context. The working of the three-leveled formal traditional courts of the Nkuna Tribal Authority near Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province is complemented by informal mechanisms and processes for adjudication and intervention in conflicts. The civic association, ki…
Spatial and organisational complexity in the Dwars River Valley, Western Cape
Access to land and housing in South Africa is of great importance to a range of actors, leading to contested processes and complex organisational interactions. Using the anthropology of organisations and a process ethnographic approach, the spatial and organisational complexity in the Dwars River Valley is investigated. The different actors identified include white farm owners, a range of organisations in four villages with different histories, m…
Shifting paradigms in the new South Africa
Introduction toAnthropology Southern Africa, special edition on 'Debating Southern African Anthropology
By challenging anthropologists practising in different southern African contexts to engage in debate, we elicited a rich array of viewpoints and counter-challenges as we gathered articles for this special edition. In this introductory article we set the scene for the special edition, tracking the history of this contentious discipline and sketching the views of the participating authors as they engage with debate from various perspectives. In the…
Model Tribes' and Iconic Conservationists? The Makuleke Restitution Case in Kruger National Park
This article investigates how the Makuleke community in Limpopo Province achieved iconic status in relation to land reform and community-based conservation discourses in South Africa and beyond. It argues that the situation may be more complex than it first appears, and the ways in which the Makuleke story has been deployed by NGOs, activists, academics, conservationists, the state and business may be too simplistic. The authors discuss historica…
Getting Going
Debates Section
Victor Turner and liminality
2011). Victor Turner and liminality: An introduction. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 34, Thinking Victor Turner's 'Liminality' from southern Africa today, pp. 1-4
De la Rey' and the Revival of 'Boer Heritage
An Afrikaans popular song about a general of the Anglo-Boer War, ‘De la Rey’ was received with great enthusiasm among white Afrikaans-speakers in 2007, but also generated much controversy about the possible implications of re-ethnicisation among Afrikaners. What did this manifestation of popular culture say about the resilience of Afrikaner identity and the impact of the New South Africa? This article examines the ways in which this song entered …
A return to Turner
This article explores interpretive possibilities offered by the concept of liminality in the context of identity politics in South Africa in an attempt to build on the rich and stimulating work of Victor Turner towards a comparative and contextual analysis. Degrees and variations of liminality are identified; I am interested, for instance, in whether it is part of hegemonic domination or tactical resistance, historically structured or innovative,…
Creolisation and Purity
Language politics about the Afrikaans language are at the heart of struggles over transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Opposing claims and practices over standard Afrikaans and Kaaps, a vernacular spoken mostly by coloured people, emerge in the tense language debate at Stellenbosch. Contrary to the idea of a fixed and pure hegemonic standard language, the notion of creolisation has recently been drawn upon by coloured Afrikaans-speakers…
Humanizing De-Afrikanerized South African Anthropology
Long walk fromvolkekundeto anthropology
This paper stems from a seminar that the author gave at his retirement from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University earlier in 2015. It details his long personal, political and intellectual journey from volkekunde to social anthropology. Written in the register of historical auto-ethnography, the piece details his theoretical paradigm shift and intellectual interlocutors in the process, while also pointing a…
Multiple livelihoods and social relations in the South African Lowveld, 1986–2013
Despite improvements in the last two decades, rural communal areas in South Africa remain dumping grounds, requiring multiple livelihood strategies and social adaptations. Local experience of dispossession forms the backdrop to individual and collective responses to changes in the role of land, labour and reproduction. The ethnographic research focused on a rural settlement in the former Gazankulu Bantustan in the period 1986–2013. Shifts in the …
Anthropology Southern Africa
Anthropology Southern Africa is the single association of anthropologists in southern Africa, following a century (1903–2001) of disparate organizing, deeply entangled with political conflicts. Anthropology became a highly successful academic field in South Africa in the 1920s. The study of the former British colony's industrialization process made it a vibrant resource for anthropology in the United Kingdom. However, anthropologists were soon sp…
Creating the Coloured Other in South Africa in Light of the “Jewish Question” in Germany
This article offers a response to Warren Goldstein’s analysis of the racialisation of the “Jewish Question.” By analysing the role of Scripture, Afrikaner nationalism and racial science in the production of apartheid, we argue that the insights shared by Goldstein as related to the “Jewish Question” sparks a fertile reflection on the “Coloured Question” in South Africa. While the outcomes differed, the correlations are to be found in the processe…
Obituary
2020). Obituary: Boet Kotze, a radical and prophetic Afrikaans anthropologist (March 4, 1943–July 8, 2020) Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 259-265
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens
Several critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up to the closure of their department. The article uses a network approach to unravel how volkekundiges at the university were entangled with Afrikaner …
The Enigma of Max Gluckman
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Anthropology (11 obras) · South African History and Culture (11 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (7 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 obras) · Ethnography (6 obras)