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, ‘Cultural Studies and Renaissance in Africa: Recovering Praxis’, Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa [Pretoria, South Africa], 4, 2 (1999), pp. 43–8. 4 Michael Green, ‘“Cultural Studies!”, Said the Magistrate’, News from Nowhere: Journal of Cultural Materialism, 8 (1990), p. 36. 5 Tony Bennett, ‘Putting Policy into Cultural Studies’, in Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler (eds.), Cultural Studies (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 26. 6 For an interesting discussion of writing centres (based on US models) within South African universities
theoretical currents in twentieth-century anthropology with reference to the particular ways in which they referred indigenous beliefs with their cosmological foundations to some other, ostensibly more real level of explanation. Basic human needs (functionalism), moral and socio- political order and reproduction (structural-functionalism), ecological 7 Introduction adaptation (cultural materialism), individual agency (methodological individualism), the expression of underlying social values (interpretativism, symbolism), situated social relations (practice theory) or of