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201	Grave rites and grave rights: anthropological study of the removal of farm graves in northern peri-urban Johannesburg Hill, Cherry Ann 02 1900 (has links) Text in English / 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 graves at the focus of the study were some seventy-six graves removed from a northern portion of the farm in 2004 for a huge development project that commenced construction in 2010, and other graves removed in the 1980s from portions of the farm developed for residential estates in the 1990s. The study explored the people who dwelt on the farm and created the graveyards, the religious processes entailed in relocating the mortal remains of ancestors, the mortuary processes of exhuming and reburying ancestors, the disputations between and negotiating processes of landowners and grave owners, and the demands and demonstrations by farm workers and dwellers seeking redress for past human and cultural rights infringements. Although the topic of farm graves is well-referenced in land claims and sense of place discourses and is not in itself a new topic, this study provides original and in-depth information and insight on the broader picture of ancestral graves and their relocation, including the structuring of a community and its leaders and followers, it suggests answers to the question as to whether ancestral graves/graveyards can successfully and functionally be relocated. Not only are religious aspects examined in the study, but also the sociopolitical and economic dimensions of relocating graves are fully scrutinised in the context of farm workers and dwellers’ political awareness of and astuteness to the social and economic potential of farm graves and their relocation. / Anthropology and Archaeology / M.A. (Anthropology) Ancestors Anthropology Burial Cultural Dainfern Demonstration Disjunction Dispute Economic Exhumation Farm dwellers Farm workers Followers Graves Johannesburg Leaders Mass graves Peri-urban Political Power relations Reburial Ritual Social Toyi-toyi Zandspruit Zevenfontein 393.10968221 Burial -- South Africa -- Johannesburg Ethnopsychology -- Social aspects
202	Taiwanese accounts of the meaning of their national identity : a qualitative study Liu, Zhao 03 January 2014 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The national identity of Taiwanese people has been a topic under public debate and academic inspection since Taiwan’s democratization in the 1980s and the 1990s. In this study, I interviewed fifteen Taiwanese students studying in the United States and talked with them about their national identity. Interviews with the fifteen students reveal that an independent Taiwanese identity has taken shape, while a Chinese cultural identity still remains part of the Taiwanese identity. It was also discovered that although a Taiwanese national identity has formed, a Taiwanese ethnicity has not yet taken a complete form. Discussions with the Taiwanese students also indicate that studying in the multi-cultural United States renders them more aware of their Taiwanese national identity, as well as their Chinese cultural identity. Taiwanese Taiwan national identity cultural identity Chinese Group identity -- Taiwan -- Students Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- China China -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan Taiwan -- History -- 1895-1945 Taiwan -- History -- 21st century Taiwan -- History

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Grave rites and grave rights: anthropological study of the removal of farm graves in northern peri-urban Johannesburg

Taiwanese accounts of the meaning of their national identity : a qualitative study