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25/02/2025

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24/02/2025

CRADLE GATHERING

A cross cultural celebration of music and dance
taking place at the newly founded
Kromdraai Impact Hub
in The Cradle Of Humankind

Acclaimed composer Arthur Jeffes, leader of the UK ensemble Penguin Café, will be performing. This unique event will feature world-class musicians, artists, dancers, and local talent from the Cradle Community.

Founded in 2009, Penguin Café honours Jeffes' late father Simon Jeffes' legacy while showcasing Arthur’s own genre-defying compositions. Arthur’s South African debut will combine virtuoso piano with experimental electronics, bass-heavy beats, and synths.

He'll be joined by The Cradle Crew, local youth involved in The Great Oven initiative, a peace-driven movement blending food, art, and music. Also featured is Cristina Perera, a Brazilian ballet and contemporary dance legend, who will collaborate with local dancers.

Supporting the music are DJs Blanka Mazimela, from South African electronic group Bantwanas, and Illing, a resident DJ at techno institution Toy Toy. Visuals will be curated by Sowetan artist Maverick Seizure, who has mentored the Cradle Crew in photography and the visual arts.

This event brings together global and local talent for a night of creativity, culture, community, and is proudly supported by the Gauteng Tourism Authority, celebrating the start of Human Rights Month in South Africa.

Date: Saturday 1 March 2025
Venue: Kromdraai Impact Shed
Times: 16h00-22h00







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14/02/2025

This Valentines day - treat your loved one to something special.
A bucket list experience!

Hot Air balloon experience over The Cradle of Humankind.

10/02/2025

February is the month of Love.

Cool Runnings in Muldersdrift is offering you an affordable evening out. Spoil your partner this Valentines day & come party.

24/11/2024

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The ecosystem at the Cradle of Humankind is under threat. Raw sewage continues to flow through the Unesco World Heritage site in Mogale City. The crisis has ...

18/11/2024

THE WORLD World Anthropological Union - WAU
11-15 November 2024 Misty Hills Country Hotel, Conference Centre & Spa

started with a rush at registration, opening welcome & 1st international Keynote speaker of the week.

The highlight of the day was the Paleoanthropology Lekgotla, generously hosted by the Lee Berger Foundation.
The excursion was lead by Dr Michael B. Rivera, a Hong Kong University lecturer in Interdisciplinary sturdies.

The 30 international anthropology delegates were given an opportunity to engage with the local scientists on site, ask questions and discover more about South Africa's rich paleoanthropology.

17/11/2024

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Panel 071 – Facing the more-than-human: multispecies approach in historical anthropology

Pages
Much more than human: a reading of Lo que son los yerbales paraguayos, by Rafael Barrett (1908)
From multispecies view to ethnography of Papuans: animals in Miklouho-Maclay papers
Cosmopolitical Battles for Good Health in the Andes: epidemics, colonialism and indigenous resistance
Acclimatisation: entanglements of cattle and people in Northernmost Brazil
Divine Goddess Ganga, River Ganga, and Multispecies Historical Anthropology
Landscape and species interactions in northern Amazon trough 18th, 19th and 20th centuries: notes for a non-anthropocentric history of animals and plants, rivers or mountains
Did the vassoura-de-bruxa (witch’s broom plague) kill cocoa? Towards an infrahistory of cocoa planting in Southern Bahia, Brazil

17/11/2024

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Panel 069 – Tensions on Local Knowledge and Academic Knowledge Production

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Bridging the Knowledge Divide: Integrating Local and Academic Knowledge
An ontological injustice towards indigenous justice systems: the case of traditional witchcraft-related conflict management mechanisms and the laws of Ghana.
Authorship Abuse in Research and Academics in the Digital Age

17/11/2024

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Panel 068 – Football as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Ethnographic Analyses and Contemporary Reflections

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"Very happy to realize that our flag, which was almost usurped, returned to us. GO BRAZIL!"
Soccer and Personhood: A South African Subaltern Story
The “Memories of Football” project at the Museum of Sound and Image (MIS-São Paulo/Brazil): historical and anthropological approaches on football as a sociocultural phenomenon
Gender, football fandom and knowledge production: ethnographic insights

16/11/2024

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Panel 067 – Q***ring all the borders: questioning the anthropology of gender and sexuality from the south

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Engendering Death: Ethnographic Insights into the Posthumous Mistreatment and Misgendering of Trans-Q***r Bodies.
Decolonial approaches to labour inclusion policies for trans people: a comparative study in Madrid and Buenos Aires
Warlike binarism: gender, race and sexuality in militarised contexts in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Decolonizing Q***r Anthropology
Gender wears leather: productions of dissident masculinities

16/11/2024

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Panel 066 – Ethnographic experiences with children, adolescents, and youth: Reflections on these young people as subjects of knowledge, creativity, and technology

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All-Russian Student Olympiad in Ethnography – an experience in popularizing anthropology among young people
Doing ethnography with tikmũ'ũn children: resistance, joy and learning
Ethnographic research experience with children in Maputo: the place of playing and school
Narratives of rural youngs, childrens and adolescents around education. An Ethnography on the Margins of the State
It is (not) about you: Ethnographic and narrative approach to adolescent pregnancy through teenager’s voices and silences.
Learning to respect the “owners” of places: what can we learn with Galibi-Marworno children about socio-environmental care and ethics?
“How we can help each other”: ethnographic confluence with adolescent students regarding their racial identities
Youth on the move: ethnography of relational mobility with street-connected children and youth in urban Northeast Brazil

16/11/2024

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Panel 064 – The Subjectivity of Others in the COVID-19 Vaccination Processes

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The Actions of Social Agents Regarding the Use of Health Measures: An Analysis of School Returns in the Pandemic Context
Using fuzzy cognitive mapping to promote community involvement in decision-making for COVID-19 recovery in Northern Nigeria.
Differences in Covid-19 vaccination acceptance in two Zapotec communities of Oaxaca, southern Mexico; preliminary findings and hypotheses
Navigating Vaccination Realities: State Policies and Community Perspectives in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Attitudes of Acceptance, Rejection or Hesitancy Towards the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Multi-Country Study: The United States Case
Perception of Na´ Savi preschool and primary school teachers on current school achievement and associated factors during the COVID-19 pandemic
Culturally Competent Approaches to Promote Equitable COVID-19 Vaccination: Understanding Healthcare Behaviors and Vaccine Acceptance
Attitudes of Acceptance, Rejection or Hesitancy Towards the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Multi-Country Study: The Mexican Case
Knowledge, Perception and Practices: Some Anecdotes from the Field on Covid-19
Attitudes of Acceptance, Rejection or Hesitancy Towards the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Multi-Country Study: The Peruvian Case
“The doctor never asks me!”: Exploring the link between vaccine hesitancy and the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
An Anthropological study on attitude towards Covid-19 vaccine- Hesitancy, Preference, Acceptability

15/11/2024

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Panel 061 – Friendship as a Feminist Proposal: New Approaches to the Anthropology of Gender, Kinship and Affects

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Afetos (im)pertinentes: relações feministas e antirracistas nas fronteiras entre academia e ativismo
Friendship, festivities and feminism: examples from the Basque Country (Spain)
The promise among musical groups of the south-central coast of Peru
“You will never walk alone”. Rethinking Abortion Activism as a Feminist Practice of Strategic Sisterhood
Feminism, friendship and collective processes of knowledge construction: bastard ethnographies?
Third Persons Present: Vitalities of Friendship and Familiarity in LGBTQ+ Aging

15/11/2024

WAU, what an amazing week.

Anthropologists from around the world attending the WAU World Anthropology Congress, on the fringes of the Cradle of Humankind, Mogale City, Gauteng, South Africa.

15/11/2024

15/11/2024

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Panel 058 – Between Public Amnesia and Neglect: Marginalized Communities’ Experiences of the Pandemic

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Narratives of Neglect: Unmasking the Experiences of Indian Migrant Workers and the Middle Class Amidst Public Amnesia and State Policies
Memories of the Covid-19 pandemic among the indigenous peoples Fulni-ô, in Brazil, and P`urhépecha, in Mexico: coping strategies and (post)pandemic social impacts
Lived Experiences of Women Sanitation Workers during the Pandemic in India
The Voice Within: An Online Ethnography on the Experiences of Deaf Students in a Public High School during the COVID-19 Pandemic
A walk to remember on the Mymensingh road: the politics of memorialising and forgetting
The Many Lives of the Pandemic: Memory, Belonging and time in urban Darjeeling
Testimonials from the Border: Chronic Ailments Disrupting Continuities of the Afterlife
Memories of Bodies - (not) on- the- Move: Understanding the Socio-Economic Conditions of Bihari Migrant Workers in Kolkata during COVID-19.
‘Have you heard anyone talk about Covid’?: Afterlives of the pandemic in an Indian election
Emergence and Continuity: Understanding Pandemic through an Epidemic

14/11/2024

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Panel 057 – Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge Production in the Arab World Post-Independence

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الأنثروبولوجيا في الجزائر : مسارات التكوين الجامعي وآفاق الإنتاج المعرفي الأنثروبولوجي
المعرفة الأنثروبولوجية في العالم العربي وتحدّيات المقاربات الكولونياية وما بعد الكولونيالية : دراسات عبد الله حمّودي نموذجا
الأنثروبولوجيا السياسية في العالم العربي عِلم محل ريبة في سياقات استبدادية
From Colonial to Indigenous: Transforming Anthropological Narratives in the Arab World
PALESTINIAN ANTHROPOLOGY: WHAT LIES BEYOND PALESTINE?
في مساءلة المعرفة الأنثروبوجية الأجنبية ما بعد الكولونيالية في المغارب: الفجوات بين الخطاب النظري والواقع الإثنوغرافي في موريتانيا والمغرب
Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge Production: Insights from Refugee Family Support in Ireland
The Accusation of Colonialism: Anthropology in Post-Colonial Algeria and the Restoration of Dignity