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Krajewska, Anna Urszula
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Mpako, Nombe
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dc.contributor.author |
Nkosinkulu, Zingisa
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-10-07T08:17:52Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-10-07T08:17:52Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Nkosinkulu, Zingisa (2015) Diaspora, identity and Xhosa ancestral tradition: culture in transience, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19184> |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19184 |
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dc.description |
Text in English |
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dc.description.abstract |
Most Xhosa people experience the condition of feeling dislocated and confused when choosing a spiritual belief between Christianity and Xhosa ancestral traditions. This study uses the concept of diaspora to describe the mental dislocation that people whose culture has changed experience. This study is based on the phenomenon of diaspora as a state of identity in the contemporary cultural identity of amaXhosa, the people of the Eastern Cape Province, by exploring the interrelationship between the key concepts, namely, identity, culture, land, and home as they relate to ancestral worship and Christian practice. Two installation artworks by Bill Viola and Nicholas Hlobo were selected for a comparative analysis under the spectacle of Xhosa ancestral tradition. In this study, I seek to understand how identity is constructed within a particular geographical and ideological culture and how self-identity can be constituted through the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of cultural histories. Touching on notions of mediation, altar, and dislocation, this study uses Martin Buber’s concept of I AND THOU to weave the key concepts together. |
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dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (xi, 156 leaves) : color Illustrations |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.subject |
Xhosa |
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dc.subject |
Identity |
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dc.subject |
Xhosa ancestral traditions |
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Diaspora |
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Auto-ethnography |
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Bill Viola |
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Nicholas Hlobo |
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Isivivane |
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Ocean without a shore |
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Umthubi |
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Mediation |
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Interculturalism |
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dc.subject.ddc |
305.8963985 |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and custom |
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Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies |
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Xhosa (African people) -- Cultural assimilation -- South Africa |
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Christians--South Africa |
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Viola, Bill, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation |
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Hlobo, Nicholas, 1975- -- Criticism and interpretation |
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dc.title |
Diaspora, identity and Xhosa ancestral tradition: culture in transience |
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dc.type |
Dissertation |
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dc.description.department |
Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology |
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dc.description.degree |
M.A. (Visual Arts) |
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