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| Gaining ground? 'Rights' and 'property' in South African land reform D James Routledge, 2007 | 304 | 2007 |
| Gaining ground? 'Rights' and 'Property' in South African Land Reform D James Rights' and'Property'in South African Land Reform, 2007 | 304 | 2007 |
| The return of the broker: consensus, hierarchy, and choice in South African land reform D James Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (2), 318-338, 2011 | 222 | 2011 |
| Songs of the women migrants: Performance and identity in South Africa D James Edinburgh University Press, 2019 | 180 | 2019 |
| Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness D James Africa 82 (1), 20-40, 2012 | 126 | 2012 |
| “Deeper into a hole?” Borrowing and lending in South Africa D James Current Anthropology 55 (S9), S17-S29, 2014 | 110 | 2014 |
| Introduction: popular economies in South Africa E Hull, D James Africa 82 (1), 1-19, 2012 | 101 | 2012 |
| Land for the landless: conflicting images of rural and urban in South Africa's land reform programme D James Journal of contemporary African studies 19 (1), 93-109, 2001 | 101 | 2001 |
| " To Take the Information Down to the People": Life Skills and HIV/AIDS Peer Educators in the Durban Area D James African Studies 61 (1), 169-191, 2002 | 69 | 2002 |
| Holding their ground: class, locality and culture in 19th and 20th century South Africa PL Bonner Ravan Pressof South Africa, 1989 | 69 | 1989 |
| The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution D Fay, D James Restoring what was ours". Nueva York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009 | 68 | 2009 |
| ‘After years in the wilderness’: The discourse of land claims in the New South Africa D James The Journal of Peasant Studies 27 (3), 142-161, 2000 | 68 | 2000 |
| Empathy and expertise: Case workers and immigration/asylum applicants in London D James, E Killick Law & Social Inquiry 37 (2), 430-455, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class D James Anthropology Southern Africa 40 (1), 1-14, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Credit apartheid, migrants, mines and money D James, D Rajak African Studies 73 (3), 455-476, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Citizenship and land in South Africa: From rights to responsibilities D James Critique of anthropology 33 (1), 26-46, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: contesting land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa D James Africa 79 (2), 228-251, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| “I Dress in This Fashion”: Transformations in Sotho Dress and Women’s Lives in a Sekhukhuneland Village, South Africa’ D James Clothing and Difference: embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial …, 1996 | 39 | 1996 |
| A question of ethnicity: Ndzundza Ndebele in a Lebowa village D James Journal of Southern African Studies 16 (1), 33-54, 1990 | 38 | 1990 |
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