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  • James, Deborah (2025). James Ferguson (1959–2025). Anthropology Southern Africa, 48(1), 46 - 48. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2025.2547870
  • James, Deborah (2025). What relevance has division of labour in a world of precarious work? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1922). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0279 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2025). Things change Black material culture and the development of a consumer society in South Africa, 1800-2020. Robert Ross. Leiden: Brill, 2023, 187 pp. $67.00, paper. ISBN 9789004543744. Journal of Anthropological Research, 81(1), 101 - 102. https://doi.org/10.1086/733629
  • James, Deborah (2024). Beyond social policy? ‘patchwork’ livelihoods. Global Social Policy, 24(2), 322 - 326. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181241261439 picture_as_pdf
  • Zaloom, Caitlin, James, Deborah (2023). Financialization and the household. Annual Review of Anthropology, 52, 399 - 415. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-052721-100947 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2022). Owing everyone: debt advice in the UK’s time of austerity. Ethnos, 87(1), 59 - 77. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1687544 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa, James, Deborah (2022). The state of the welfare state: advice, governance and care in settings of austerity. Ethnos, 87(1), 1 - 21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1688371 picture_as_pdf
  • Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy, Lohiya, Anishka, James, Deborah, Jivraj, Naseem & Koch, Insa et al (2021). Good and ‘bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study. BMJ Global Health, 6(6). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005509 picture_as_pdf
  • Breckenridge, Keith, James, Deborah (2021). Recentring the margins: theorizing African capitalism after 50 years. Economy and Society, 50(1), 1 - 8. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1854540 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2021). Life and debt: a view from the south. Economy and Society, 50(1), 36 - 56. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841930 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2020). Householding and social reproduction: comment on Newberry and Rosen. Focaal, 2020(86), 125 - 128. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.860111 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah, Kirwan, Samuel (2019). Sorting out income: transnational householding and austerity Britain. Social Anthropology, 28(3), 671-685. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12619 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2019). New subjectivities: aspiration, prosperity and the new middle class. African Studies, 78(1), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1540516 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2018). Mediating Indebtedness in South Africa. Ethnos, 83(5), 814-831. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2017.1362450
  • James, Deborah (2017). Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(3), 281-304. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.3.016
  • James, Deborah (2017). Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class. Anthropology Southern Africa, 40(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2016.1237295
  • James, Deborah (2015). 'Women use their strength in the house': savings clubs in an Mpumalanga village. Journal of Southern African Studies, 41(5), 1035-1052. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2015.1062263
  • Forbess, Alice, James, Deborah (2014). Acts of assistance: navigating the interstices of the British state with the help of non-profit legal advisers. Social Analysis, 58(3), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2014.580306
  • James, Deborah, Rajak, Dinah (2014). Credit apartheid, migrants, mines and money. African Studies, 73(3), 455-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2014.962872
  • Phillips, Laura, James, Deborah (2014). Labour, lodging and linkages: migrant women's experience in South Africa. African Studies, 73(3), 410-431. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2014.962875
  • James, Deborah (2014). 'Deeper into a hole?': borrowing and lending in South Africa. Current Anthropology, 55(S9), 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1086/676123
  • James, Deborah (2013). Citizenship and land in South Africa: from rights to responsibilities. Critique of Anthropology, 33(1), 26-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X12466682
  • James, Deborah (2013). Regulating credit: tackling the redistributiveness of neoliberalism. Anthropology of This Century, 6,
  • Hull, Elizabeth, James, Deborah (2012). Introduction: popular economies in South Africa. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 82(01), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000696
  • James, Deborah (2012). Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness. Africa, 82(01), 20-40. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000714
  • James, Deborah, Killick, Evan (2012). Empathy and expertise: case workers and immigration/asylum applicants in London. Law and Social Inquiry, 37(2), 430-455. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2012.01312.x
  • James, Deborah (2011). The return of the broker: consensus, hierarchy and choice in South African land reform. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17(2), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01682.x
  • James, Deborah (2011). Tenure reformed: planning for redress or progress in South Africa. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 61(Winter), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2011.610102
  • James, Deborah, Killick, Evan (2010). Ethical dilemmas? UK immigration, Legal Aid funding reform and caseworkers. Anthropology Today, 26(1), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00710.x
  • James, Deborah (2009). David Webster: an activist anthropologist twenty years on. African Studies, 68(2), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020180903109672
  • James, Deborah (2009). Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: the contesting of land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Africa, 79(2), 228-251. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0001972009000709
  • McNeill, Fraser G., James, Deborah (2008). Singing songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa: performance, pollution and ethnomusicology in a ‘neo-liberal’ setting. South African Music Studies, 28, 1-30.
  • James, Deborah, Ngonini, Alex Xola, Nkadimeng, Geoffrey Mphahle (2005). (Re)constituting class?: owners, tenants and the politics of land reform in Mpumalanga. Journal of South African Studies, 31(4), 825-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070500370613
  • James, Deborah, Schrauwers, Albert (2003). An apartheid of souls: Dutch and Afrikaner colonialism and its aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa – an introduction. Itinerario, 27(3/4), 49-80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115300020775
  • James, Deborah, Nkadimeng, Geoffrey (2003). 'A sentimental attachment to the neighbourhood': African Christians and land claims in South Africa. Itinerario, 27(3/4), 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115300020854
  • James, Deborah (2002). “To take the information down to the people” : life skills and HIV/AIDS peer educators in the Durban area. African Studies, 61(1), 169-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020180220140127
  • James, Deborah (2001). Land for the landless : conflicting images of rural and urban in South Africa’s land reform programme. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 19(1), 93 -109. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589000125070
  • Kaarsholm, Preben, James, Deborah (2001). Cultura popolare, sviluppo e democrazia: un'introduzione al dibattito. Afriche e Orienti, 2, 4-13.
  • Kaarsholm, Preben, James, Deborah (2000). Popular culture and democracy in some southern contexts: an introduction. Journal of Southern African Studies, 26(2), 189-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070050010066
  • James, Deborah (2000). Hill of thorns : custom, knowledge and the reclaiming of a lost land in the new South Africa. Development and Change, 31(3), 629-649. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00170
  • James, Deborah (2000). "After years in the wilderness" : the discourse of land claims in the new South Africa. Journal of Peasant Studies, 27(3), 142-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150008438743
  • James, Deborah (1999). Bagagešu / those of my home : migrancy, gender and ethnicity in the Northern Province, South Africa. American Ethnologist, 26(1), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1999.26.1.69
  • James, Deborah (1997). 'Music of origin': class, social category and the performers and audience of "Kiba", a South African migrant genre. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 67(3), 454-475. https://doi.org/10.2307/1161184
  • James, Deborah (1990). Musical form and social history: research perspectives on black South African music. Radical History Review, (46/47), 309-319. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-309
  • James, Deborah (1990). A question of ethnicity: Ndzundza Ndebele in a Lebowa village. Journal of Southern African Studies, 16(1), 33-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057079008708223
  • James, Deborah (1988). Land shortage and inheritance in a Lebowa village. Social Dynamics, 14(2), 36-51.
    • Book
  • Hann, Chris, James, Deborah (2024). One hundred years of Argonauts: Malinowski, ethnography, and economic anthropology. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805395218
  • James, Deborah (2015). Money from nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa. Stanford University Press.
  • James, Deborah, Toren, Christina (2010). Introduction: culture, context and anthropologists’ accounts. Berghahn Books.
  • Fay, Derrick, James, Deborah (Eds.) (2008). The rights and wrongs of land restitution: ‘restoring what was ours’. Routledge.
  • Comaroff, John L, Comaroff, Jean, James, Deborah (Eds.) (2007). Picturing a colonial past: the African photographs of Isaac Schapera. University of Chicago Press.
  • James, Deborah (2006). Gaining ground: ’rights’ and ’property’ in South African land reform. Routledge-Cavendish.
  • James, Deborah (1999). Songs of the women migrants: performance and identity in South Africa. Edinburgh University Press.
    • Chapter
  • Hann, Chris, James, Deborah (2024). Introduction: Argonauts revisited. In Hann, Chris, James, Deborah (Eds.), One Hundred Years of Argonauts: Malinowski, Ethnography, and Economic Anthropology (pp. 1 - 22). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805395232-002
  • James, Deborah (2022). Principles or pragmatics? Debt advice as a comparative encounter. In Pelkmans, Mathijs, Walker, Harry (Eds.), How People Compare (pp. 107 - 127). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283669-8 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah, Neves, David, Torkelson, Erin (2022). Saving, investment, thrift? Welfare beneficiary households and borrowing in South Africa. In Alexander, Catherine, Sosna, Daniel (Eds.), Thrift And Its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy (pp. 49 -73). Berghahn Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, James, Deborah, Simpson, Nikita, Alexander, Eileen, Bhogal, Kiran, Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Lohiya, Anishka, Koch, Insa & Laws, Megan et al (2020). Changing care networks in the United Kingdom. In Eckert, Andreas, Hentschke, Felicitas (Eds.), Corona and Work around the Globe (pp. 103 - 110). Walter de Gruyter & Co.. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718249-014 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2020). Redistribution and indebtedness: a tale of two settings. In Hann, Chriss, Kalb, Don (Eds.), Financialization: Relational Approaches (pp. 196 - 219). Berghahn Books. picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah, Koch, Insa (2020). Economies of advice. In Aldenderfer, Mark (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology . Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (2019). Indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa. In Soudien, Crain, Woolard, Ingrid, Reddy, Vasu (Eds.), Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, prognosis and responses (pp. 214-231). Human Sciences Research Council.
  • James, Deborah (2017). Undoing apartheid? From land reform to credit reform in South Africa. In Christophers, Brett, Mann, Geoff, Leyshon, Andrew (Eds.), Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times . Wiley-Blackwell.
  • James, Deborah, Rajak, Dinah (2014). Debt or savings? Of migrants, mines and money. In Rankin-Smith, Fiona, Phillips, Laura, Delius, Peter (Eds.), A long way home: migrant worker worlds 1800-2014 . Wits University Press.
  • James, Deborah, McNeill, Fraser G. (2011). Singing songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa: performance, pollution and ethnomusicology in a ‘neo-liberal’ setting. In Barz, Gregory (Ed.), The Culture of AIDS: Hope and Healing Through the Arts in Africa (pp. 193-212). Oxford University Press.
  • James, Deborah (2010). 'Doing business with a development ethic’: new look land redistribution in South Africa. In Freund, Bill, Witt, Harald (Eds.), Development Dilemmas in Post-Apartheid South Africa . University of KwaZulu-Natal.
  • Fay, Derrick, James, Deborah (2010). Giving land back or righting wrongs? Comparative issues in the study of land restitution. In Walker, Cherryl, Bohlin, Anna, Hall, Ruth, Kepe, Thembela (Eds.), Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice: Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa (pp. 41-61). Ohio University Press.
  • James, Deborah (2009). David Webster: a postscript English translation of “Posfácio: David Webster”. In Webster, David J. (Ed.), A Sociedade Chope: Indívíduo e Aliança No Sul De Moçambique (1969-1976) . Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
  • Fay, Derrick, James, Deborah (2008). The anthropology of land restitution: an introduction. In Fay, Derrick, James, Deborah (Eds.), The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’ (pp. 1-24). Routledge.
  • James, Deborah (2007). Property and citizenship in South African land reform. In Dorman, Sara, Hammett, Daniel, Nugent, Paul (Eds.), Making Nations, Creating Strangers (pp. 123-144). Brill Academic Publishers.
  • James, Deborah (2006). The tragedy of the private: owners, communities and the state in South Africa's land reform programme. In Benda-Beckmann, Franz von, Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, Wiber, Melanie G. (Eds.), Changing Properties of Property (pp. 243-268). Berghahn Books.
  • James, Deborah (2006). Black background: life history and migrant women’s music in South Africa. In Reily, Suzel (Ed.), The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking's Ethnomusicology in the 21st Century (pp. 71-86). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • James, Deborah (2005). Civil society in South Africa. In Glasius, Marlies, Lewis, David, Seckinelgin, Hakan (Eds.), Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts (pp. 149-153). Routledge.
  • James, Deborah (2005). Pedi women and Kiba performance. In Lucia, Christine (Ed.), The World of South African Music: a Reader (pp. 272-278). Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
  • James, Deborah, Mphahle Nkadimeng, Geoffrey (2003). The land and the word: missions, African Christians, and the claiming of land in South Africa. In Draper, Jonathan (Ed.), Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Southern Africa (pp. 111-134). Society of Biblical Literature.
  • James, Deborah, Kaufman, Carol (2001). The reproductive consequences of shifting ethnic identity in South Africa. In Makhlouf Obermeyer, Carla (Ed.), Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health (pp. 193-220). Oxford University Press.
  • James, Deborah (2000). Sister, spouse, lazy woman: commentaries on domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province. In Brown, Duncan (Ed.), Oral Literature and Performance in Southern Africa (pp. 176-194). James Currey (Firm).
  • James, Deborah (1996). 'I dress in this fashion' transformations in sotho dress and women's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa. In Hendrickson, Hildi (Ed.), Clothing and Difference: EMBOdied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (pp. 34-65). Duke University Press.
  • James, Deborah (1994). Basadi ba baeng/visiting women: female migrant performance from the Northern Transvaal. In Gunner, Elizabeth (Ed.), Politics and Performance: Theatre, Poetry and Song in Southern Africa (pp. 81-110). Wits University Press.
    • Dataset
  • James, Deborah, Davey, Ryan, Eule, Tobias, Forbess, Alice, Gutierrez Garza, Ana, Koch, Insa, Tuckett, Anna, Wilde, Matt (2021). An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state 2015-2018. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853821
    • Report
  • Bear, Laura, Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy, Lohiya, Anishka, James, Deborah & Jivraj, Naseem et al (2020). 'A good death' during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: a report on key findings and recommendations. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, James, Deborah, Simpson, Nikita, Alexander, Eileen, Bazambanza, Caroline, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Lohiya, Anishka & Koch, Insa et al (2020). A right to care: the social foundations of recovery from Covid-19. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah, Forbess, Alice (2011). Rights, welfare and law. Legal aid advocacy in austerity Britain. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Thesis
  • James, Deborah Ann (1987). Kinship and land in an inter-ethnic rural community [Masters thesis]. University of the Witwatersrand.
    • Online resource
  • Forbess, Alice, James, Deborah (2017). The end of austerity? Not for the most needy.
  • James, Deborah (2012). LSE Research: The explosion of debt in South Africa.
    • Working paper
  • James, Deborah (2002). 'Human rights' or 'property'? State, society, and the landless in South Africa. Human Rights Institute.
    • Blog post
  • James, Deborah (17 October 2025) Work, welfare and debt in precarious times. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah (18 August 2022) Tackling consumer indebtedness and unscrupulous lending in South Africa. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf