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Ethnographic exploration of childhood and childhood sexualities in a rural village in South AfricaPiloto, Nyasha Grace January 2017 (has links)
This ethnographic exploration tackles meanings of childhood in Qondwa village, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, by illustrating how childhood is constantly shifted, negotiated and contested. These attempted definitions of childhood defy the Western constructs of childhood, regarding the ethnography here is undertaken in African context. I dedicated six months carrying out qualitative research on these meanings. For purposes of my research, I adopt the local term, rather than recorded Western definition of a 'child' in Qondwa which is expressed as any boy or girl who is financially dependent on parents or guardians, regardless of age. Furthermore, a boy only transitions into a man, as a girl into a woman, when financially independent of their parents/guardians, regardless of age. I hereby argue that there is no universal meaning of childhood and provide comparative ethnographies of childhood to cement this argument. I adopt Karp's theory of personhood to further argue that personhood of children determines how children experience realities. I go further to discuss childhood in the context of parents/guardians, childhood in the context of defined socio-geographic spaces, childhood in the context of traditional cultural events which show that there is no universal meaning of childhood, even within a culture displaying the complexities of such definitions. / Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Anthropology and Archaeology / MSocSci / Unrestricted
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Values in life and literature : a comparative reading of the depiction of disintegration, insecurity and uncertainty in selected novels by Thomas Mann, William Faulkner and Thomas PynchonWilke, Magdalena Friedericke 06 1900 (has links)
The reading of selected literary texts in this thesis traces
the changes from a divinely ordered world of stability
(Thomas Mann's Bud<lenbrooks) to surroundings characterized
by insecurity (William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) to
an unstable environment giving rise to largely futile attempts
at finding answers to seemingly illogical questions
(Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49). As a product of the
accelerated speed of technological progression and the information
revolution in the twentieth century, man is more
often than not incapable of adjusting to changed circumstances
in a seemingly hostile environment. Indeed, instability
and unpredictability are external factors determining
the sense of insecurity and uncertainty characterising
the 'world' depicted in the literary texts under consideration.
For this reason judicious use will be made of
philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts, based, amongst
others, on Nietzschean and Freudian theories, to explain the
disintegration of families, the anguish experienced by individuals
or, indeed, the shifting identities informing the
portrayal of character in selected literary texts. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature)
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Values in life and literature : a comparative reading of the depiction of disintegration, insecurity and uncertainty in selected novels by Thomas Mann, William Faulkner and Thomas PynchonWilke, Magdalena Friedericke 06 1900 (has links)
The reading of selected literary texts in this thesis traces
the changes from a divinely ordered world of stability
(Thomas Mann's Bud<lenbrooks) to surroundings characterized
by insecurity (William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) to
an unstable environment giving rise to largely futile attempts
at finding answers to seemingly illogical questions
(Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49). As a product of the
accelerated speed of technological progression and the information
revolution in the twentieth century, man is more
often than not incapable of adjusting to changed circumstances
in a seemingly hostile environment. Indeed, instability
and unpredictability are external factors determining
the sense of insecurity and uncertainty characterising
the 'world' depicted in the literary texts under consideration.
For this reason judicious use will be made of
philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts, based, amongst
others, on Nietzschean and Freudian theories, to explain the
disintegration of families, the anguish experienced by individuals
or, indeed, the shifting identities informing the
portrayal of character in selected literary texts. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature)
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