Drafts by Fileve T L A L O C Palmer
The Report of the Native Economic Commission, 1930-1932 was assisted by anthropology to preserve ... more The Report of the Native Economic Commission, 1930-1932 was assisted by anthropology to preserve and reconstruct the “pristine identity of native society” while simultaneously developing their society in an economic sense. Limits on publishable information by Afrikaner hegemony and the intellectual and political discourse of the period prevented solutions to segregation (Cocks 2001:742, 746). A series of ecological catastrophes, the ravages of the second Anglo-Boer war, and the Great Depression witnessed many Whites slipping into poverty. For class and race conscious Europeans, John Comaroff (2012) attributes the success of Schepeara and other Jewish social scientists to the assimilation of the Boere-Jode (Afrikaner-Jew) into the local Afrikaner communities and their rise to prominence in the discipline. The Boere-Jode became “adept at observing the differences in culture, how you passed, what you could say, what you could not” (Bangstad et al. 2012:118). As a result of their positions and practices of ethnic and personal survival, they used their powers of observation and cultural adaptability to study non-white communities. This paper shows how the social sciences assisted the development of Apartheid policies.
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Despite a commitment to non-racialism in the South African Constitution and anthropology’s steadf... more Despite a commitment to non-racialism in the South African Constitution and anthropology’s steadfast position that race is a social construction, race is still a highly valued ideology with real-life implications for citizens. In South Africa, racialism particularly affects heterogeneous, multigenerational, multiethnic creole people known as “Coloureds.” The larger category of Coloured is often essentialized based on its intermediary status between Black and White and its relationship to South Africa’s “mother city” (Cape Town, where the majority of Coloured people live). Through research on Coloured identity in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, I show how the nuances of personal and collective histories, spatial constraints, and education affect the identities of youth and elders differently from their Cape counterparts. By incorporating a photo-voice methodology, which I called Photo Ethnography Project (PEP), participants produced their own visual materials and challenged essentialize...
Visualization and Data Analysis 2009, 2009
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Drafts by Fileve T L A L O C Palmer
Papers by Fileve T L A L O C Palmer