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New Research project: Exploring migrant decision-making in West Africa (MIGCHOICE)

Dr Michelle Engeler is part of a new research project that will explore migration decision-making and development in West Africa. The project, which is being led by the University of Birmingham, will explore how interventions in areas such…
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New Publication: Cities of Entaglement: Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison

By Dr. Barbara Heer

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Rita Kesselring is new editor-in-chief of Anthropology Southern Africa

Dr. Rita Kesselring is the new editor-in-chief of the journal Anthropology Southern Africa
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NBN author-interview podcast with Rita Kesselring on her book Bodies of Truth (SUP 2017)

Listen to a one-hour podcast of a conversation between Susan Thomson, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University and Dr. Rita Kesselring on the book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in…

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"Chronicity, Precarity and Uncertainty in Elder Care" - New Publication by Piet van Eeuwijk

'Precarity, Assemblages and Indonesian Elder Care' in Journal 'Medical Anthropology'
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New Publication: Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives by Dr Michelle Engeler

The monograph published by transcript introduces the perspective of »meandering lives« to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea's capital. It…

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The roles of a Grandmother in African societies – please do not send them to old people’s homes

New Publication by Janet Michel et al. inclusive co-author Piet van Eeuwijk
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