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The Amateur

Is a humanist intellectual with a popular audience more likely to be a credentialed expert or an autodidact?

Saikat Majumdar Saikat Majumdar

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The Historical Origins and Development of Universities in South Africa

The intention of the research project and book on the history of universities is to consider and trace how important contemporary issues were understood and addressed historicallyin general, and at specific universities in South Africa.

Saleem Badat Saleem Badat

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School Photos and their Afterlives: Assimilation, Exclusion, Resistance

Appearing very early in the history of photography and pervasive throughout the world, school-class photos, like report cards and diplomas, confirm group belonging and exposure to a process of educational acculturation and socialization.

Marianne Hirsch Marianne Hirsch Leo Spitzer Leo Spitzer
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