Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Anthropology and Archaeology) by Subject "Anthropology"

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Childhood: an Anthropological study of itinerancy and domestic fluidity amongst the Karretjie people of the South African Karoo.

Steyn, Sarah Adriana (2009-03)

The Karretjie People, or Cart People are a peripatetic community and are descendants of the KhoeKhoen and San, the earliest inhabitants of the Karoo region in South Africa. As a landless and disempowered community they are ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Place of our own": the anthropology of space and place in the Afrikaner Volkstaat of Orania

Hagen, Lise (2013-01)

In anthropological studies place is often taken for granted, “just” the locale where other interesting, more significant things happen (De Jongh 2006:79). I argue that rather than a mere backdrop to activities, the ...

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