Special Issue: Contingency and
Creativity: South
Africa
after Apartheid
Complied and Edited by Christopher
J. Colvin
CONTENTS
Introduction: Contingency and
Creativity: South
Africa
after Apartheid
-Christopher J. Colvin 3
ARTICLES
“Drinking the Hot Blood of Humans”:
Witchcraft Confessions in a South African Pentecostal Church
-Jennifer Badstuebner 8
Crime and Punishment on the Margins
of the Postapartheid State
-Lars Buur 23
Public Spaces for National
Commemoration: The Case of Emlotheni Memorial, Port
Elizabeth
-Birthe Rytter Hansen 43
Being and Belonging: Space
and Identity in Cape
Town
-Shannon M. Jackson 61
Red Herrings: Looking Back at
Apartheid through James McClure’s Detective Novels
-Helen Kapstein 85
FICTION
The Promise
-Christine Eber 101
POEMS
Mexican Election, July 2, 2000
Pachucos All
Ángels
An Ilongot
Tribesman in the Philippines
-Renato Rosaldo 111
BOOK REVIEWS
The Birth of Girl into Woman
and Edie Turner, an Anthropologist of a Different Kind (Girl into Woman, Edith
Turner)
-Karen E. Richman 114
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Society for Humanistic Anthropology
is pleased to announce that the 2003 Poetry Prize was won jointly by Heidi
Kelley for “In the Waiting Room,” “Qué Sinvergüenza,” and “Green Is the Color of Galician Death,”
and by Melisa Cahnmann for “American
Defense” and “Driving through North Philly.”
ON THE COVER
“Dance to Freedom Day” by
South African political cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan
Shapiro). Freedom Day (on April 27th)
is the national holiday that marks the anniversary of the 1994 democratic
elections. GEAR is an acronym for the
government’s macroeconomic policy. “Madiba” is another name often used for Nelson Mandela. Used with permission.
