Anjuli Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anjuli Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anjuli |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8638-7853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Max Gluckman and anthropology's objects
Who Conquered South Africa
The right of conquest is a doctrine in the theory of international law in terms of which victory in war entitles the victor both to the title to territory of the vanquished as well as sovereignty over them. Far from being a mere event, however, conquest is an ongoing process, structure, and relation of domination. Despite the widely celebrated “transition to democracy” and the supposed triumph of popular sovereignty in South Africa in the past th…
Water and History in Southern Africa
How has water shaped the history of a region that is bordered by ocean, brimming with ephemeral rivers, and yet prone to drought? This article explores water histories in Southern Africa over the past two hundred years. Using oral traditions, epic poetry, archival sources, and secondary anthropological and archaeological literature, I examine how Africans and Europeans related to, claimed, and used different bodies of water. In the first section …
South African Social Science and the Azanian Philosophical Tradition
This article discusses the contemporary history of South African social science in relation to the Azanian Philosophical Tradition. It is addressed directly to white scholars, urging introspection with regard to the ethical question of epistemic justice in relation to the evolution of the social sciences in conqueror South Africa. I consider the establishment of the professional social sciences at South African universities in the early twentieth…
Transatlantic Knowledge
In this paper I trace knowledge flows between South Africa and the United States in the early twentieth century. I analyse these flows as parts within a broader white supremacist political project and technology of power. Focusing on the early Union period from the 1910s to the 1930s, I explore links, networks and exchanges within and across imperial and colonial spaces that spanned the Atlantic. These include institutional, financial, intellectu…
On conquest and anthropology in South Africa
Despite Archie Mafeje’s insistence in 1998 that anthropology is incompatible with the intellectual and political project of independent Africans,11 A Mafeje ‘Anthropology and independent Africans: suicide or end of an era?’ (1998) 2 African Sociological Review 1. anthropology remains a robust discipline in South Africa. Mafeje’s critique did not simply examine the historical political and pragmatic complicity of anthropology in colonial administr…
Pioneers of the field
On conquest and anthropology in South Africa
Despite Archie Mafeje’s insistence in 1998 that anthropology is incompatible with the intellectual and political project of independent Africans,11 A Mafeje ‘Anthropology and independent Africans: suicide or end of an era?’ (1998) 2 African Sociological Review 1. anthropology remains a robust discipline in South Africa. Mafeje’s critique did not simply examine the historical political and pragmatic complicity of anthropology in colonial administr…
Max Gluckman and anthropology's objects
Transatlantic Knowledge
In this paper I trace knowledge flows between South Africa and the United States in the early twentieth century. I analyse these flows as parts within a broader white supremacist political project and technology of power. Focusing on the early Union period from the 1910s to the 1930s, I explore links, networks and exchanges within and across imperial and colonial spaces that spanned the Atlantic. These include institutional, financial, intellectu…
Pioneers of the field
On conquest and anthropology in South Africa
Despite Archie Mafeje’s insistence in 1998 that anthropology is incompatible with the intellectual and political project of independent Africans,11 A Mafeje ‘Anthropology and independent Africans: suicide or end of an era?’ (1998) 2 African Sociological Review 1. anthropology remains a robust discipline in South Africa. Mafeje’s critique did not simply examine the historical political and pragmatic complicity of anthropology in colonial administr…
Transatlantic Knowledge
In this paper I trace knowledge flows between South Africa and the United States in the early twentieth century. I analyse these flows as parts within a broader white supremacist political project and technology of power. Focusing on the early Union period from the 1910s to the 1930s, I explore links, networks and exchanges within and across imperial and colonial spaces that spanned the Atlantic. These include institutional, financial, intellectu…
South African Social Science and the Azanian Philosophical Tradition
This article discusses the contemporary history of South African social science in relation to the Azanian Philosophical Tradition. It is addressed directly to white scholars, urging introspection with regard to the ethical question of epistemic justice in relation to the evolution of the social sciences in conqueror South Africa. I consider the establishment of the professional social sciences at South African universities in the early twentieth…
Who Conquered South Africa
The right of conquest is a doctrine in the theory of international law in terms of which victory in war entitles the victor both to the title to territory of the vanquished as well as sovereignty over them. Far from being a mere event, however, conquest is an ongoing process, structure, and relation of domination. Despite the widely celebrated “transition to democracy” and the supposed triumph of popular sovereignty in South Africa in the past th…
Water and History in Southern Africa
How has water shaped the history of a region that is bordered by ocean, brimming with ephemeral rivers, and yet prone to drought? This article explores water histories in Southern Africa over the past two hundred years. Using oral traditions, epic poetry, archival sources, and secondary anthropological and archaeological literature, I examine how Africans and Europeans related to, claimed, and used different bodies of water. In the first section …
Max Gluckman and anthropology's objects
Political science (6 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)