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The displacement of a Northern Cape community : an anthropological research

Becker, Elize (2020-01)

Displacement in the South African context is a complex and diverse phenomenon which is under-researched, particularly from the point of view of post-resettlement stress. The Meetse-a-tala community from Groenwater, ...
The economics of trade on the Eastern Cape Frontier, 1820-1860: a study of the glass and metal artefact assemblages from Huntley Street, Farmerfield and Fort Double Drift

Palk, Debbie (2018-01)

The collections-based research reported upon in this dissertation focuses on three sites in the Eastern Cape: Huntley Street in Grahamstown, Farmerfield, a nearby Wesleyan mission station, and Fort Double Drift, a British ...
Engendering the rock art archaeology of the north Eastern Cape, South Africa Ritual specialists, novices, and social conditioning

Green, Dawn (2020-01)

Rock art affords unique opportunities for engendered research because it provides emic views of how specific people re-presented themselves. My feminist study investigates under-researched ‘San/Bushman’ gendered identities ...
An ethnographic study of a care centre for HIV-positive patients

Hinckley, Lauren Michelle (2011-06)

This ethnography was undertaken in an AIDS hospice with the objective of understanding the functioning of the Centre holistically, including the experiences of the patients and the role of the Centre in the fight against ...
An exploratory study of forced displacement and some cultural consequences among the Yukpa of Maracaibo, Venezuela

González, Luis J. (2015-09)

The original Yukpa are an indigenous community who have inhabited the lands of the Sierra de Perij a (mountain range of Perij a) in Venezuela since prehistoric times. The sovereignty of the Yukpa on their ancestral ...
Genomic variation in seven Khoe-San groups reveals adaptation and complex African history

Schlebusch C (Ext); Skoglund P (Ext); De Jongh M; Sjodin P; Gattepaille L; Hernandez D; Jay F; Li S; Singleton A; Blum M; Soodyall H; Jakobssen M (2012)

The history of click-speaking Khoe-San, and African populations in general, remains poorly understood. We genotyped ∼2.3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 220 southern Africans and found that the Khoe-San diverged ...
Grave rites and grave rights: anthropological study of the removal of farm graves in northern peri-urban Johannesburg

Hill, Cherry Ann (2016-02)

In a diachronic and multi-sited study that extended from 2004 through 2012/2013 I deconstructed the sociocultural dynamics of relocating farm graves from the farm Zevenfontein in northern peri-urban Johannesburg. The ...
A historical archaeological inverstigation into two recent households of the Motse, Botshabelo Mission Station, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Booth, Caroline Rosine Claude Christiane Chislaine (2017-01)

The archaeological research was conducted at Botshabelo, a nineteenth century Berlin Mission Society station located outside Middelburg, Mpumalanga. It focuses primarily on the collection of residential houses and homesteads ...
Ideologie en die konstruksie van 'n landelike samelewing : 'n anthropologiese studie van die Hananwa van Blouberg

Van Schalkwyk, Johan Abraham (1995-11)

Die verskillende pre-koloniale samelewings in suidelike-Afrika bet in die laat 18de en vroee 19de eeue reeds 'n herkenbaar moderne vorm begin aanneem, toe hulle identiteit deur koloniale intervensie 'gevries' is. Die ...
Intervention and resistance: the Batau of Mphanama, Limpopo province and external governance

Shai, Namanetona Joel (2016-02)

The Batau of Kgaphola are of Swazi origin and migrated to Sekhukhuneland Limpopo Province in South Africa. The community has been involved in chieftainship disputes which date back to 1954 after the death of Chief Lobang ...
Intimidation as a factor in the liberation struggle in South Africa with special reference to Bela Bela (Warmbaths) : an anthropological perspective

Van Niekerk, Letitia (1999-07)

INTIMIDATION AS A FACTOR IN THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF SOUTH AFRICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BELA BELA (WARMBATHS): AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE The cultural revitalisation or adjustment model of Anthony Wallace ...
The Iron Age sequence around a Limpopo River floodplain on Basinghall Farm, Tuli Block, Botswana, during the second millennium AD

Biemond, Wim Moritz (2014-01)

The study encompasses the reconstruction of the Iron Age sequence around the Limpopo River floodplain on Basinghall Farm during the second millennium AD. A survey uncovered 75 Iron Age sites, including three Moritsane and ...
Kohenim travelling south. The Queen of Sheba in Ethiopian and Lemba tradition

Le Roux, Magdel (SASNES (Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies), 2004)

Similar to oral traditions, written histories may exist in more than one version. The biblical story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon has undergone an extensive elaboration in different literary traditions. ...
KwaGandaganda : an archaeozoological case study of the exploitation of animal resources during the early Iron Age in KwaZulu-Natal

Beukes, Catharina F. (2000-11)

KwaGandaganda is an Early Iron Age (EIA) site in the .Mngeni valley (KwaZulu-Nata~ South Africa). Three cultural phases, Msuluzi, Ndondondwane and Ntshekane, dating between AD 620- AD 1030 were identified. The objective ...
Late 19th-century railroad workcamps associated with the Nzasm Oosterlijn: an archaeological survey

Fivaz, Heidi (2021-01)

A significant economic and political endeavour of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) was the construction of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM) Oosterlijn – or Delagoa Bay-Pretoria railway ...
The library as place : a study of the experiences and perceptions of community libraries users in the Moretele Local Municipality

Sepeng, Itumeleng (2020-02)

In this dissertation I examine the public's use of two community libraries in the Moretele local municipality. My research focused on who uses the libraries, for what purpose the libraries are being used, and patrons’ ...
Listen to our song listen to our demand: South African struggle songs, poems and plays: an anthropological perspective

Maree, Gert Hendrik (2011-03)

Proceeding from the premise that the meaning of performances flows from contextual, textual, and nonverbal elements, this dissertation explores layers of meaning arising from performances of selected South African struggle ...
Lived experiences of rastafari women in Tshwane, South Africa: an anthropological perspective

Mosala, Tsholofelo (2017-11)

Rastafari (this term is preferred to Rastafarianism) is known as a movement which originated in Jamaica and has since spread throughout the world. The movement has attracted much attention from the public and media worldwide ...
Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

Vicente, Mário; Lankheet, Imke; Russell, Thembi; Hollfelder, Nina; Coetzee, Vinet; Soodyall, Himla; Jongh, Michael D.; Schlebusch, Carina M. (2021-12-07)

Abstract Background Hunter-gatherer lifestyles dominated the southern African landscape up to ~ 2000 years ago, when herding and farming groups started to arrive in the ...
The material culture of the Kwena Tribe of the Tswana

McDonald, C. A. (1940-03)

This study, which, to a large extent, consists of reproductions of photographs taken by myself and drawings made by myself, is the outcome of two months' work among the Kwena tribe of Tamposstad, fifteen miles north-east ...

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