Current ISER research projects
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Authors: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- Employees Rhodes University -- History Rhodes University. Institute of Social and Economic Research Economic development -- Research -- South Africa Social change -- Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2465 , vital:20294
- Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Authors: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- Employees Rhodes University -- History Rhodes University. Institute of Social and Economic Research Economic development -- Research -- South Africa Social change -- Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2465 , vital:20294
- Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Rhodes University Institute of Social and Economic Research, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Authors: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- History Rhodes University. Institute of Social and Economic Research Economic development -- Research -- South Africa Social change -- Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2508 , vital:20299
- Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Authors: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- History Rhodes University. Institute of Social and Economic Research Economic development -- Research -- South Africa Social change -- Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2508 , vital:20299
- Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Risk and benefit as functions of savings and loan clubs: an examination of the importance of rotating credit associations for poor women in Rhini
- Authors: Buijs, Gina
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Africans -- Economic conditions Rhini (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- Social conditions Savings and loan associations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Savings and loan associations -- South Africa Urban poor -- South Africa Women -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Economic conditions Women -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Black people -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2498 , vital:20298
- Description: Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, 25th April 1995: This paper examines the implications of risk taking in the context of rotating credit associations popular among poor women in Rhini. Mary Douglas notes that in the 19th century when the theory of risk taking became important in economics, humans were thought to be risk averse because they chose according to a pleasure calculus. In the 18th century the idea of risk was neutral: it took account of the probability of gains and losses. The concept originally emerged in the 17th century in the context of gambling. Risk then means the probability of an event occurring, combined with the magnitude of the losses and gains which would be entailed. She comments (1992:31) that the evaluation of the outcome is a political, aesthetic and moral matter. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Authors: Buijs, Gina
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Africans -- Economic conditions Rhini (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- Social conditions Savings and loan associations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Savings and loan associations -- South Africa Urban poor -- South Africa Women -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Economic conditions Women -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Black people -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2498 , vital:20298
- Description: Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, 25th April 1995: This paper examines the implications of risk taking in the context of rotating credit associations popular among poor women in Rhini. Mary Douglas notes that in the 19th century when the theory of risk taking became important in economics, humans were thought to be risk averse because they chose according to a pleasure calculus. In the 18th century the idea of risk was neutral: it took account of the probability of gains and losses. The concept originally emerged in the 17th century in the context of gambling. Risk then means the probability of an event occurring, combined with the magnitude of the losses and gains which would be entailed. She comments (1992:31) that the evaluation of the outcome is a political, aesthetic and moral matter. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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The collapse of the 'tribal authority' system and the rise of civic organisations
- Manona, Cecil W, Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Authors: Manona, Cecil W , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
- Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Authors: Manona, Cecil W , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
- Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Politics and science in Radcliffe-Brown: from anarchism to applied anthropology
- Authors: Maddock, Kenneth
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (Alfred Reginald), 1881-1955 Anthropologists Anthropology Ethnology
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2645 , vital:20312
- Description: It is part of anthropological folklore that A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) was known as "Anarchy Brown" when a student at Cambridge early this century. Meyer Fortes thought the nickname "a friendly recognition of the streak of aloofness in him and of his reputation for holding somewhat highbrow ideas in matters of art, life and literature" (1956: 153)- But there was more to it than the pose of a turn of the century aesthete, as Fortes knew. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Authors: Maddock, Kenneth
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (Alfred Reginald), 1881-1955 Anthropologists Anthropology Ethnology
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2645 , vital:20312
- Description: It is part of anthropological folklore that A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) was known as "Anarchy Brown" when a student at Cambridge early this century. Meyer Fortes thought the nickname "a friendly recognition of the streak of aloofness in him and of his reputation for holding somewhat highbrow ideas in matters of art, life and literature" (1956: 153)- But there was more to it than the pose of a turn of the century aesthete, as Fortes knew. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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