Anthropology

Head of the Department

Dr P Esterhuyse

• Social issues regarding water and ecological matters
• Visual and material culture

Senior Professor

Prof RJ Gordon

• Anthropology of development problems, the role of law (and the “state”), qualitative methodology, history of social science, colonialism, visual anthropology, (Southern) Africa
• Environmental Anthropology

Senior Lecturer

Dr CA Williams

• Exiles, liberation movements and transnationalism
• Cultural identity

Lecturer

Ms S du Plooy

• Pilgrimage
• Rites of passage
• Culture and health

Lecturer

Mr MJ Serekoane

• Culture and health
• Scholarship of teaching and learning
• Community development