Social Dynamics, Volume 41, Issue 1 (2015)

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Introduction
Introduction to the question: is confusion a form?
Jane I. Guyer
Pages: 1-16
Published online: 28 Apr 2015
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Confusion and personification in Yoruba thought and practice
Kabiru K. Salami & Jane I. Guyer
Pages: 17-33
Published online: 26 May 2015
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Ontological confusion: Eshu and the Devil dance to The Samba of the Black Madman
Moises Lino e Silva
Pages: 34-46
Published online: 07 May 2015
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“Divining” the city: rhythm, amalgamation and knotting as forms of “urbanity”
Filip De Boeck
Pages: 47-58
Published online: 29 May 2015
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There’s too much going on
Francis Burger
Pages: 59-65
Published online: 07 May 2015
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Grouping theories: a response to the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) panel on “Confusion as a Form”
Natasha Thandiwe Vally
Pages: 66-68
Published online: 05 Jun 2015
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Response: one confusion after another: “Slander” in Amos Tutuola’s Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer (1987)
Jane I. Guyer
Pages: 69-72
Published online: 14 May 2015
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Introduction
Introduction: listening to sound archives
Anette Hoffmann
Pages: 73-83
Published online: 15 Jan 2015
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Poste restante, and messages in bottles: sound recordings of Indian prisoners in the First World War
Britta Lange
Pages: 84-100
Published online: 06 Jan 2015
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Percival Kirby’s wax cylinders: elegy on archiving a deaf spot
Niklas Zimmer
Pages: 101-123
Published online: 13 Feb 2015
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Violence, the occult and the everyday: a Radio Zulu drama of the 1980s
Liz Gunner
Pages: 124-139
Published online: 06 Dec 2014
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Hearing voices in the archive
Anette Hoffmann & Phindezwa Mnyaka
Pages: 140-165
Published online: 15 Dec 2014
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“The natives are clever enough”: contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and the politics of ambiguity in north-west Namibia
Steven Van Wolputte
Pages: 166-183
Published online: 28 Apr 2015
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Transnational forced migration and negotiating emotional well-being: the case of women refugees in South Africa
Ria Smit & Pragna Rugunanan
Pages: 184-203
Published online: 07 May 2015
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Book Review

Book Review
Richard Rive: a partial biography
Meg Samuelson
Pages: 204-207
Published online: 21 Apr 2015
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South Africa’s renegade reels: the making and public lives of black-centered films
Mary Robertson
Pages: 207-210
Published online: 21 Apr 2015
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A place that matters yet: John Gubbins’s MuseumAfrica in the postcolonial world
Jill Weintroub
Pages: 210-213
Published online: 21 Apr 2015
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