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This paper examines a range of challenges to anthropology in post-apartheid South Africa in the hope of stimulating a much needed debate on 'doing anthropology' from the perspective of South African anthropologists who research and teach within their own complex society. It addresses questions about the continuities and discontinuities of 'doing anthropology' in South Africa, which pay special attention to the discipline's historically situated politics in the post-apartheid society. The title of the essay takes its cue from Dipesh Chakrabarty's effort to 'provincialise' Europe and builds upon the 'World Anthropologies' project, initiated by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo Escobar. I highlight the legacy of the late apartheid era's exposé anthropology which critically included a reluctance to engage with cultural analysis due to apartheid's preoccupation with 'cultures' as its ideological basis. The paper argues, further, that post-apartheid anthropology needs to develop an approach to interpret the meanings and engage with the contemporary world in South Africa and beyond. It investigates three interrelated sets of critical issues: 'Doing anthropology at home': the anthropologist as investigator and citizen; the question of 'relevance', whither for a publicly engaged anthropology, and perspectives on anthropology, public culture and the postcolonial state.