Robert Thornton

An Anthropologist in/of South Africa--Commenting on Anthropology in/of South Africa and southern Africa, HIV, AIDS, sexuality and sex, artisanal gold mining, ‘stone circles’, traditional healing.

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08 January 2014

Theorising beads: Beads as material culture in southern Africa

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