Dr Isak Niehaus
Senior Lecturer
Marie Jahoda 219
- Email: isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267413
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Niehaus, I. (2022) 'From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing Imaginations and New Experiences in the South African Lowveld', in Kirsch, TG., Mahlke, K. and Van Dijk, R. (eds.) Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny. London : Routledge. pp. 101 - 123. ISBN 10: 0-429-27358-4. ISBN 13: 978-0-367-22169-0. Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2021) 'Blaming the Father: Witchcraft, De-Industrialization and Generation in South Africa'. Anthropology Southern Africa, 44 (2). pp. 64 - 79. ISSN: 0379-8860 Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2018) '‘Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Witchcraft and Biomedical Aetiology in South Africa.’', in Robben, A. (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons. pp. 415 - 428. ISBN 10: 111922229X. ISBN 13: 978-1-119-22229-3. Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2017) 'Anthropology at the dawn of apartheid radcliffe-brown and malinowski’s South African engagements, 1919–1934'. Focaal, 2017 (77). pp. 103 - 117. ISSN: 0920-1297 Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2016) 'Marriage, Kinship and Childcare in the Aftermath AIDS: Rethinking Orphanhood in the South African Lowveld'. Anthropology Southern Africa, 33 (1). pp. 42 - 55. ISSN: 2332-3256 Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2014) 'Treatment literacy, therapeutic efficacy, and antiretroviral drugs: Notes from Bushbuckridge, South Africa'. Medical Anthropology: cross-cultural studies in health and illness, 33 (4). pp. 351 - 366. ISSN: 0145-9740 Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2014) ''I dont want to hear': HIV, AIDS and the power of words in Bushbuckridge, South Africa', in Beckmann, N., Gusman, A. and Shroff, C. (eds.) String Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa. Oxford : Oxford University Press. pp. 173 - 196. ISBN 10: 0197265685. ISBN 13: 9780197265680. Open Access Link
Niehaus, I. (2013) 'Anthropology and whites in South Africa: Response to an unreasonable critique'. Africa Spectrum, 48 (1). pp. 117 - 127. ISSN: 0002-0397
Niehaus, I. (2012) 'Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa'. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISSN 13: 9781107016286
Niehaus, I. and McNeill, F. (2009) 'Magic: AIDS Review 2009.'. Pretoria: Centre for the Study of AIDS.
NIEHAUS, I. (2005) 'Violence and the Boundaries of Belonging: Comparing Two Border Disputes in the South African Lowveld', in Broch-Due, V. (ed.) Violence and Belonging: The Quest for Identity in Post-colonial Africa. London and New York: : Routledge. pp. 91 - 111.
Niehaus, I. (2002) 'Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Belonging: Reconfiguring Shangaan Identity in the South African Lowveld'. African Affairs, 3 (405). pp. 557 - 583. ISSN: 0001-9909
Niehaus, I. (2001) 'Witchcraft, power and politics: exploring the occult in the South African lowveld'. London: Pluto Press. ISSN 10: 0-7453-1558-5