Professor Martin Hall's Publications

2011-12

"Inequality and Higher Education: marketplace or social justice?". Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, published in January 2012.
Guest editorial in the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 2011, Vol. 3, No. 1: "The end of the British public university? (PDF)"
"The open agenda at the University of Salford". Produced for JISC, October 2011.
"Openness: the essential quality of knowledge (PDF)". Article based on a keynote address given at the 6th Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference (EBLIP6) held at the University of Salford, June 2011.

2009-10

Article in The Guardian, 11 October 2010 - "Social cost of fees (PDF)"
"Nothing is different but everything’s changed". In The Next Twenty Five Years? Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the United States and South Africa. Edited by Martin Hall, Marvin Krislov and David L. Featherman. University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2009
(with Dorrian Aiken and Nazeema Mohamed) "Institutional Culture and Diversity: Engagement and Dialogue in a South African University". In The Next Twenty Five Years? Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the United States and South Africa. Edited by Martin Hall, Marvin Krislov and David L. Featherman. University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2009
"Proclamation 43". In Defining moments, material records – an alternative archaeology of the twentieth century. Edited by John Schofield. Forthcoming, 2009
"Revealing Memories from Darkness". In Memories from Darkness; Archaeology of Repression and Resistance in Latin America (1960s-1980s). Edited by Pedro P. Funari, Andrés Zarankin and Melisa Salerno. Forthcoming 2009: pages 177-185
"New knowledge and the university". Anthropology Southern Africa, 32 (1 and2): 69-86, 2009.

2005–08

"New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist". Commentary, "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008.
"Stitch Wise: Strategic Knowledge Management for Pro-Poor Enterprise on South Africa’s Goldfields". In The Business of Sustainable Development in Africa: Human Rights, Partnerships, and Alternative Business Models. Edited by Ralph Hamann, Stu Woolman and Courtenay Sprague. UNISA Press, Pretoria. 2008
"The objects of transformation in higher education". Social Dynamics, 34 (1), 2008.
"Time to Destroy: an Archaeology of Supermodernity" (Gonzalez-Ruibal) Comment in Current Anthropology, April 2008.
(with Noeleen Murray and Nick Shepherd eds.) Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City. London, Routledge, 2007.
(with Pia Bombardella) Paths of nostalgia and desire through heritage destinations at the Cape of Good Hope. In Noeleen Murray, Nick Shepherd and Martin Hall (eds), Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City. London, Routledge, 2007.
Afterword: lines of desire. In Noeleen Murray, Nick Shepherd and Martin Hall (eds), Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City. London, Routledge, 2007.
"Transformation and continuity in the university in Africa", Social Dynamics 33 (1):181-198, 2007.
"The repatriotization of revolutionary ideology" (Gropas), Comment in Current Anthropology 48(4):543-544, 2007.
Academic freedom and the university: fifty years of debate. South African Journal of Higher Education 20(3): 8-16, 2006.
Identity, memory and countermemory: the archaeology of an urban landscape. Journal of Material Culture 11(1-2): 189-209, 2006.
(with Stephen Silliman, eds.) Historical Archaeology. Oxford, Blackwell, 2006.
(with Stephen Silliman) Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World. 1-22 in Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman (eds.), Historical Archaeology. Oxford, Blackwell, 2006.
The reappearance of the authentic. 70-101 in Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto (eds.) Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. Durham, Duke University Press, 2006
(with Rebecca Stefoff) Great Zimbabwe. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006
(with Ashley Symes) South African Higher Education in the first decade of democracy: from co-operative governance to conditional autonomy. Studies in Higher Education, 30 (2): 199-212, 2005
The Industrial Archaeology of Entertainment. 261-278 in Eleanor Casella and Jim Symonds (eds.) Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions, New York, Springer, 2005
Situational ethics and engaged practice: the case of archaeology in Africa. 169-194 in Lynn Meskell and Peter Pels (eds) Embedding Ethics. Oxford, Berg, 2005
(with Pia Bombardella) Las Vegas in Africa. Journal of Social Archaeology, 5(1):5-24, 2005
(with Ian Scott, Nan Yeld and Janice McMillan) Equity and excellence in higher education: The case of the University of Cape Town. 261-284 in W.G. Bowen, M.A. Kurzweil and E.M. Tobin (eds), Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Freeing the Knowledge Resources of Public Universities. Knowledge Management Africa – Knowledge to Address Africa’s Development Challenges. Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg, 2005.
Have South African universities lost their autonomy in the first decade of democracy? A response to Jonathan Jansen. Journal of Higher Education in Africa 3(2): 165-170, 2005.
One world, one place. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 1(1):119-125, 2005

2000-04

(with Ashley Symes and Thierry Luescher), The Culture of Governance in South African Public Higher Education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 26 (1) March 2004: 91-107
(with Glenda Cox and Tony Carr), Evaluating the use of synchronous learning in two blended courses. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 20:183-193, 2004
(with Ashley Symes and Thierry Luescher), Governance in South African Higher Education. Pretoria, Council on Higher Education, 2003
(with Ashley Symes) Co-operative governance or conditional autonomy? Principles for governance of South African Higher Education. Kagisano 2, 2003: 5-29
Blackbirds and black butterflies. 333-361 in Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graeme Reid and Razia Saleh (eds.) Refiguring the Archive. Cape Town, David Philip, 2002
Timeless time – Africa in the world. 439-464 in Barry Cunliffe, Wendy Davies and Colin Renfrew (eds.) Archaeology: the Widening Debate. London, British Academy and Oxford University Press, 2002
Education and the new economy. 171-175 in Kader Asmal and Wilmot James (eds), Spirit of the Nation: Reflections on South Africa’s Educational Ethos. Johannesburg, New Africa Books, 2002
Going local? The World Archaeological Congress and Effective Action. World Archaeological Bulletin 15, 2002: 5-23
Cape Town’s District Six and the archaeology of memory. 298-311 in Robert Layton, Peter Stone and Julian Thomas (eds), The Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property. London, Routledge, 2001
Social Archaeology and the theatres of memory. Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1):50-61 2001
Education and the margins of the network society. 224-243 in Johan Muller, Nico Cloete and Shireen Badat (eds) Challenges of Globalisation: South African Debates with Manuel Castells. Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 2001
Access to Higher Education: race, resources and social exclusion. Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies 3(2): 16pp. www.safundi.com, 2001
Straylight, Mala Mala, Pink Frikkie, Blekgelexy and Rumba Kali @Africa. The Net: New Apprentices and Old Masters. 13 pages. Mots Pluriels, 2001
Landscapes of the Past. 33-40 in Neil Silberman and Ernest Frerichs (eds), Archaeology and Society in the 21st Century: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Case Studies. Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 2001
Historical Archaeology. 6718-6720 in N.J. Smelser and Paul Bates (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford, Pergamon, 2001
Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the Chesapeake. London and New York, Routledge, 2000
Digital S.A. 460-475 in Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael (eds.) Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 2000

1995-99

(with Pedro Paulo Funari and Sian Jones, eds.) Writing from the Edge: Historical Archaeology. London, Routledge, 1999
(with Pedro Paulo Funari and Sian Jones) Archaeology in History. In Pedro Paulo Funari, Sian Jones and Martin Hall (eds), Writing from the Edge: Historical Archaeology. London, Routledge, 1999
Subaltern voices? Finding the spaces between things and words. In Pedro Paulo Funari, Sian Jones and Martin Hall (eds), Writing from the Edge: Historical Archaeology. London, Routledge, 1999
Archaeology and the Legacy of Apartheid. In Kwesi Kwaa Prah (ed) The Impact of Apartheid on the Production and Reproduction of Knowledge. Johannesburg, Vivlia, 1999
Virtual Colonisation. Journal of Material Culture 4(1):39-55, 1999
Earth and Stone: archaeology as memory. 180-200 In Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee (eds), Negotiating the Past. The Making of Memory in South Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1998
The virtual university: education for all, or a segregated highway? South African Journal of Science 94 (March):1-4, 1998
Swansong or new dawn? The Zimbabwean 4(1):8-9, 1998
South African archaeology and the World Archaeological Congress (guest editorial) South African Archaeological Bulletin 53: 1-2, 1998
"Teaching Africa at the post-apartheid University of Cape Town: a response", and "Bantu Education? A reply to Mahmood Mamdani". Social Dynamics 24(2):40-62, 86-92, 1998
Africa Connected. First Monday 3(11). http://www.firstmonday.dk. 1998
Patriarchal facades: the ambivalences of gender in the archaeology of colonialism. 221-236 in Lynn Wadley (ed), Our Gendered Past: Archaeological Studies of Gender in Southern Africa. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg. 1997
The Smuts Hall Windows. Cape Town, University of Cape Town, 1997
Snakes and crocodiles: power and symbolism in ancient Zimbabwe (review feature). South African Archaeological Bulletin 52: 129-132, 1997
Archaeology Africa. Cape Town, David Philip; London, James Currey, 1996
Heads and Tales. Representations 54:48-67, 1996
The proximity of Dr Bleek’s Bushmen. In Pippa Skotnes (ed.) Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen. Cape Town, UCT Press, 1996
"Historical archaeology of Africa”, “Mapungubwe and Toutswemogala", "Later Iron Age societies of southern Africa". In Brian Fagan, Charlotte Beck, George Michaels, Chris Scarre and Neil Silberman (eds.) Oxford Companion to Archaeology. London, Oxford University Press, 1996
The Archaeology of the Castle of Good Hope. 97-106 in Monuments and Sites: South Africa. Sri Lanka, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), 1996
Historical Archaeology in South Africa. World Archaeological Bulletin 7:32-39, 1996
The Archaeology of Central and Southern Africa. In John Middleton (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York, Simon and Schuster. 1996
From Lydenburg to Mafikeng: appropriations of images of the past. 116-133 in Brenda Cooper and Andrew Steyn (eds), Transgressing Boundaries: New Directions in the Study of Culture in Africa. Cape Town: UCT Press, and Athens, Ohio University Press, 1996
Slaves, Rings and Rubbish. Johannesburg, Heinemann, 1995
(with Ann Markell and Carmel Schrire) The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope. Historical Archaeology 29 (1): 10-34, 1995
Great Zimbabwe and the Lost City: the cultural colonization of the South African past. 28-45 in Peter Ucko (ed.) Theory in Archaeology. A World Perspective. London, Routledge, 1995
The architecture of patriarchy: houses, women and slaves in the eighteenth century South African countryside. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 79:61-73, 1995
The legend of the Lost City; or, The Man with Golden Balls. Journal of Southern African Studies 21(2):179-200, 1995
"Great Zimbabwe" and "Nok". In Encarta. London, Microsoft, 1995

1990-94

Lifting the veil of popular history: archaeology and politics in urban Cape Town. 167-184 in Angela Gilliam and George Bond (eds.) The Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power. London, Routledge, 1994
The dead hand of anthropology. Southern African Review of Books 6(2):8-10, 1994
Bodyparts. An interpretation. In Terry Kurgan, Bodyparts. Portfolio of Multi-stoned Lithographs. Cape Town: Terry Kurgan. 1994
Mischief and megalomania. Ventilator 1(1):34-43, 1994
The Iron Age. An Illustrated Dictionary of South African History. Sandton, Ibis Books, 1994
(with Alba Letts) Archaeological conservation of metals on a low budget. Southern African Museums Association Bulletin 20:52-54, 1994
The secret lives of houses: women and gables in the eighteenth century Cape. Social Dynamics 20(1): 1-48, 1994
(with Ann Markell, eds.) Historical Archaeology in the Western Cape. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 7, 1993
(with Duncan Miller and John Moore) Provenance studies for stone from the Castle gateway, Cape Town. South African Journal of Science 89:110-112, 1993
(with Antonia Malan, Sharon Amann, Lyn Honeyman, Taft Kiser and Gabrielle Ritchie) The archaeology of Paradise. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 7: 40-58, 1993
(with Ann Markell) Introduction: Historical archaeology in the Western Cape. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 7: 3-7, 1993
(with Sharma Saitowitz and Ute Seemann) The development of Cape Town’s waterfront in the earlier nineteenth century; history and archaeology of the North Wharf. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 7: 98-103, 1993
The archaeology of colonial settlement in Southern Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 22: 177-200, 1993
South Africa: History. Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th Edition). 27: 916-918, 1993
Tales and Heads: Bodies and landscapes. In Malcolm Payne, Face Value: Old Heads in Modern Masks. Cape Town, Axeage, 1993
Small things and the mobile, conflictual fusion of power, fear and desire. 373-399 in Anne Yentsch and Mary Beaudry (eds.) The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz. Boca Raton, CRC Press, 1992
People in a changing urban landscape: excavating Cape Town. Inaugural Lecture, University of Cape Town, 1992
(with A.Malan) Archaeology and conservation in the urban environment: the example of Cape Town. 130-133 in Derek Japha and Vivienne Japha (eds.) Proceedings of the National Urban Conservation Symposium. Cape Town, Oakville Press, 1991
High and low in the townscapes of Dutch South America and South Africa: the dialectics of material culture. Social Dynamics 17(2):41-75,1991
Fish and the fisherman, archaeology and art: Cape Town seen by Bowler, D’Oyly and De Meillon. South African Journal of Art and Architectural History 2 (3 & 4): 78-88, 1991
(with Brenda Cooper, eds) Looking at Latin America. Social Dynamics 17(2), 1991
Farmers, Kings and Traders: the people of South Africa, 200-1860. Chicago, University of Chicago Press (new edition of 1987 publication), 1990
Meaning and material culture in the colonial Cape. Social Dynamics 16(1), 1990
(with D.Halkett, P.Huigen van Beek and J.Klose) “A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy”? Bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town. Social Dynamics 16(1): 22-37,1990
"Hidden history": Iron Age archaeology in southern Africa. 59-77 in Peter Robertshaw (ed.) A History of African Archaeology. London, James Currey, 1990
(with D.Halkett, J.Klose and G.Ritchie) The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century. South African Archaeological Bulletin 45:73-92, 1990

1985-89

(with G.Goosen) Africanisation and the University of Cape Town. 1-85 in Glenn.Goosen, Martin Hall and Caroline White (eds.), Rethinking UCT: the Debate over Africanisation and the Position of Women. Cape Town, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, 1989
(with N.J. van der Merwe, S. J. Saitowitz, J.F.Thackeray and C.Poggenpoel). Standardized analyses of glass trade beads from Mgungundlovu and Ondini, nineteenth century Zulu capitals. South African Archaeological Bulletin 44: 98-104, 1989
(with Candy Malherbe) Changes in the Land. Pietermaritzbug, Shuter and Shooter, 1988
Archaeology under apartheid. Archaeology 41(6):62-64, 1988
(with Yvonne Brink and Antonia Malan) Onrust 87/1: An early colonial farm complex in the Western Cape. South African Archaeological Bulletin 43:91-99, 1988
At the frontier: some arguments against hunter-gathering and farming modes of production in southern Africa. 137-147 in Tim Ingold, David Riches and James Woodburn (eds.) Hunters and Gatherers: History, Evolution and Social Change. Oxford, Berg. 1988
The Changing Past: Farmers, Kings and Traders in Southern Africa, 200-1860. Cape Town, David Philip, 1987
(with John Parkington, eds) Papers in the Prehistory of the Western Cape, South Africa. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, 1987
(with J. Parkington) Patterning in recent radiocarbon dates from southern Africa as a reflection of prehistoric settlement and interaction. Journal of African History 28:1-25, 1987
Archaeology and modes of production in pre-colonial southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies 14(1):1-17, 1987
Preface. In John Parkington and Martin Hall (eds.) Papers in the Prehistory of the Western Cape, South Africa. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, 1987
(with A.B. Smith, eds) Prehistoric pastoralism in southern Africa. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 5, 1986
(with A.B. Smith) Introduction: Prehistoric pastoralism in southern Africa. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 5:3-5,1986
The role of cattle in southern African agropastoral societies: more than bones alone can tell. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 5:83-87, 1986
(with C. Schrire, J. Deacon and D. Lewis-Williams) Burkitt’s milestone. Antiquity LX:123-131. 1986
(with T. Maggs, D. Oswald and H. Ruther) Spatial parameters of Late Iron Age settlements in the Upper Thukela Valley. Annals of the Natal Museum 27(2): 455-479, 1986
(with J.E. Granger, B. McKenzie and J.M. Feely) Archaeological research on plant and animal husbandry in Transkei. South African Journal of Science 81(1):12-15, 1985
(with R. Yates and J. Golson) Trance performance: the rock art of Boontjieskloof and Sevilla. South African Archaeological Bulletin 40:70-81, 1985

1980-84

The myth of the Zulu homestead: archaeology and ethnography. Africa 54(1):65-79, 1984
Frontiers in southern African archaeology. 1-10 In Martin Hall, Graham Avery, Margaret Avery, Mike Wilson and Tony Humphreys (eds). Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, 1984
Prehistoric farming in the Mfolozi and Hluhluwe valleys of south-east Africa: an archaeo-botanical survey. Journal of Archaeological Science 11:223-235, 1984
The burden of tribalism: the social context of southern African Iron Age Studies. American Antiquity 49(3):455-467, 1984
Mans historical and traditional use of fire in southern Africa. 39-52 In P.deV Booysen. and N.M.Tainton (eds). Ecological Effects of Fire in South African Ecosystems. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1984
(with G. Avery, M. Avery, M. Wilson and A. Humphreys, eds.) Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports,1984
Pots and politics: ceramic interpretations in southern Africa. World Archaeology 15(3):262-273, 1984
(with K. Mack) The outline of an eighteenth century economic system in south-east Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 91(2):163-194, 1983
Tribes, traditions and numbers: the American model in southern African Iron Age ceramic studies. South African Archaeological Bulletin 38:51-57, 1983
Early farming communities in southern Africa: a population discovered. South African Historical Journal 15:1-9, 1983
(with A. Morris) Race and Iron Age human skeletal remains from southern Africa : an assessment. Social Dynamics 9(2):29-36, 1983
(with C.H. Borland) The Indian connection: an assessment of Hromnik’s ‘Indo-Africa’ South African Archaeological Bulletin 37:75-80, 1982
Quantifying trends in site location with multidimensional scaling. World Archaeology 14(1):131-152, 1982
Settlement Patterns in the Iron Age of Zululand: an Ecological Interpretation. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, 1981
Enkwazini, an Iron Age site on the Zululand coast. Annals of the Natal Museum 24(1):97-110, 1980
An iron smelting site in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve, Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 24(1):165-175, 1980
A method for obtaining metrical data from fragmentary molluscan material found at archaeological sites. South African Journal of Science 76:280-81, 1980
(with J.C. Vogel) Some recent radiocarbon dates from southern Africa. Journal of African History 21(4):431-455, 1980

1976-79

(with T. Maggs) Nqabeni, a later Iron Age site in Zululand. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 3:159-176, 1979
The Umfolozi, Hluhluwe and Corridor Reserves during the Iron Age. Lammergeyer 27:28-40., 1979
(with J.C. Vogel) Enkwazini : fourth century Iron Age site on the Zululand coast. South African Journal of Science 74:70-71, 1978
The legal protection of archaeological sites: some problems and suggestions. Southern African Museums Association Bulletin 12(7):270-277, 1977
Shakan pitfall traps : hunting technique in the Zulu Kingdom. Annals of the Natal Museum 23(1):1-12, 1977
The royal hunts of Shaka’s Zulu. Neon 24:8-11, 1977
Ethnography, environment and the history of the Nguni in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 11-20 In Shula Marks (ed.) The Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Volume 8. London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. 1977
Dendroclimatology, rainfall and human adaptation in the later Iron Age of Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(3):693-703,1976

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