Nostalgia after Apartheid: Disillusionment, Youth, and Democracy in South Africa.

  • Published In: American Anthropologist, 2023, v. 125, n. 1. P. 205 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Bissell, William 3 of 3

Abstract

Reed writes, "democracy is failing ordinary South Africans in its perceived attack on so-called traditional culture" (p. 9). And in the ethnography, Reed provides plenty of evidence of Xhosa youth in Kamwa who embraced Sonke's mission as transformative and who were keenly disappointed when the NGO finished its funding and left. In her well-crafted ethnography I Nostalgia after Apartheid i , Amber R. Reed asks us to confront what might initially seem like a surprising question: how could rural Xhosa people in South Africa, once marginalized by a brutal and racist regime, come to wax nostalgically about life under apartheid?. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:American Anthropologist. 2023/03, Vol. 125, Issue 1, p205
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0002-7294
  • DOI:10.1111/aman.13799
  • Accession Number:162398620
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