Blurred Lines
Intersections of Ethnography and Rape in South Africa and Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2262208 |
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| Authors | Teresa K Connor (0000-0002-3135-8502, University of Fort Hare, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 315-330 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anhu.12346 |
| OpenAlex | W3193597201 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
In this article, I examine the blurred lines between my own experience of violence in South Africa and that of the women I encountered while doing fieldwork in Pafuri, Mozambique. I centralize the importance of personal insight to deal with violent sexuality and rape and argue that reflection provides meaning to the process of ethnographic fieldwork. I examine the similarities between my own experience of violence in South Africa and that of my interlocutors in Mozambique, set within a regional political system that marginalizes women's experiences in both countries. While negative experiences of rape stem from a prejudiced history, I argue that these experiences can be overcome through rebirth or initiation. In my case, this was achieved through the personal level of transformation that fieldwork produced, while for women in Pafuri, the initiation (vukhomba) of young girls translates violence into empowerment
Empowerment · Ethnography · Human sexuality · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Sex work and related issues
Reflections of a woman anthropologist
Culture & truth
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
‘Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality
‘The Economy of Violence
Hidden Reflexivity
Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique
Women in African Colonial Histories
Anthropology
Violence and Subjectivity
Anthropology from the Bones
Naming the past in a "Scattered" Land
Crooks, Commuters and Chiefs
Slavery, Social incorporation and surplus extraction; the nature of free and unfree labour in South-East Africa
Africa in Theory
Society and the Dance
Blurred Boundaries
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering
Sexual(ized) harassment and ethnographic fieldwork
The Emotionality of Participation
On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology
Policy processes of a land grab
The venal Hottentot Venus and the Great Chain of being
| Highly cited | No |
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