Archie Mafeje

1936-2007·3,065 citations

Archie Mafeje was a prominent South African social scientist and activist known for his influential critique of colonial anthropology and the concept of 'tribalism'. A key figure in the Pan-African intellectual tradition, he held academic positions at the University of Dar es Salaam and the American University in Cairo after being famously blocked from a senior lectureship at the University of Cape Town by the apartheid government in 1968.

Works

60 works

Title	Year	Language	Citations▼
The ideology of ' tribalism '	1971	en	706
Langa: a study of social groups in an African township	1963	en	375
Africanity : A combative ontology	2011	en	270
Anthropology and independent Africans: Suicide or end of an era?	1998	en	211
The agrarian question, access to land, and peasant responses in sub-Saharan Africa	2003	en	191
The theory and ethnography of African social formations: The case of the interlacustrine kingdoms	1991	en	158
The problem of anthropology in historical perspective: an inquiry into the growth of the social sciences	1976	en	145
Anthropology in Post Independence Africa: End of an Era and the Problem of Self-redefination [sic]	2001	en	120
On the articulation of modes of production	1981	en	96
Democratic governance and new democracy in Africa: Agenda for the future	2002	en	92
In search of an alternative: A collection of essays on revolutionary theory and politics	1992	en	90
Theory of Democracy and the African Discourse: Breaking the Bread with My Fellow-travellers	1992	en	89
Who are the Makers and Objects of Anthropology ? A critical comment on Sally Falk Moore's' Anthropology and Africa'	1997	en	65
Religion, class and ideology in South Africa	1975	en	53
The African Intellectuals: An Inquiry Into Their Genesis and Social Options	1990	en	42
South Africa: The dynamics of a beleaguered state	1986	en	35
Democracy, civil society and governance in Africa	1998	en	32
Conversations and confrontations with my reviewers	1998	en	28
A commentary on anthropology and Africa	2008	en	25
Agrarian revolution and the land question in Buganda	1973	en	24
Africanity : a commentary by way of conclusion	2001	en	24
Development Literature and Writers from Underdeveloped Countries: The Case of Turkey [and Comments and Reply]	1985	en	19
Peasants in Sub-Saharan Africa	1985	en	17
The anthropology and ethnophilosophy of African literature	1997	en	17
The national question in Southern African settler societies	1997	en	16
The new sociology: strictly for Europeans	1984	en	13
The" Africanist" heritage and its antinomies	1990	en	13
Leadership and change: a study of two South African peasant communities	1963	en	13
Tribalism	1993	en	11
L' africanité : une ontologie de combat	2000	entr.	10
Les intellectuels africains: origine et options sociales	1994	entr.	10
Africanity : An ontological combat	2000	en	9
Theoretical Issues in African Anthropology	2001	—	9
African Socio‐Cultural Formations in the 21st Century	1995	en	9
Large-scale farming in Buganda	1969	en	7
Economic models and practice in Africa	1998	en	7
African agriculture: the next 25 years–old problems, old solutions and scientific foibles	1987	en	6
Africanidade: uma ontologia combativa	2019	entr.	6
The commercial farmer and his labour supply	1973	en	5
The disenfranchised: perspectives on the history of elections in South Africa	2008	en	4
The Illusion of Tribalism	1971	en	4
Africanidade: uma ontologia combativa. Tradução de Paulo Ricardo Müller a partir de: MAFEJE , Archie . Africanity : a combative ontology	—	entr.	4
The Diaspora and Africanity	2004	en	4
Religion, Ideology, and Class in South Africa	1975	en	4
African social scientists reflections part	2001	en	4
The Postcolonial Turn: Re-Imagining Anthropology and Africa	2011	en	3
The Witchcraft of British Anthropology in Africa	1971	en	3
Livres/Books	1977	en	3
Anthropology and Independent Africans	1996	en	3
African Social Scientists Reflections	2001	en	3