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31	Literatura amerického Jihu a budování jižanské identity: Role jižanských autorů v posilování specifických kulturních hodnot / Building Southern Identity through Reading: The Role of the Works of Southern Writers in Promoting Specific Cultural Values Beková, Tereza January 2016 (has links) This thesis examines the relationship between Southern literature and socio-cultural realities of the Southern region of the United States of America. Analyzing works of five distinguished Southern writers, this thesis examines the reflection of specific Southern culture features in literature of the region in the period from the end of the American Civil War to the second half of the 20th century. The thesis oppose the opinion that the primary goal of Southern literature was to promote Southern identity and its cultural superiority above the North. The central hypothesis, that is being verified by this thesis, is that despite the indisputable contribution of highly recognized Southern writers to building of Southern identity, these authors expressed in their works also often sharp critiques of the social conditions in the South.
32	The language, identity and intercultural communication of the Shona living among Xhosa communities in Cape Town Mambambo, John 11 1900 (has links) Bibliography: leaves 253-298 / This study examines the language, identity and intercultural communication dynamics in the Xhosa communities of Cape Town where some immigrant Shona speakers dwell. Language is a complex and nuanced repertoire of culture and the choice of language constitutes part of an individual’s identity construction. Owing to these identity dynamics, the Shona speakers resident among the Xhosa communities find themselves entangled in the politics of belonging and identity that define the Shona-Xhosa immigrant landscape in Cape Town. The Shona speakers engaging in intercultural communication in Xhosa communities are confronted with language and cultural hurdles. Orbe’s Co-cultural Theory among others was central to the unpacking of the intricacies of culture and the Xhosa hegemony. Results show that Shona people speak Xhosa for social acceptance and to secure economic benefits. Nevertheless, this seems not to offer them profound indulgence with the Xhosa culture. Even if they comprehend the culture, their Shona cultural identity hampers their full admission into the Xhosa culture. This lack of cultural acceptance leaves the Shona speakers alienated from both Xhosa and Shona cultures. In that regard, Shona speakers among Xhosa communities in Cape Town live a fluid life in which relentless cultural change is the only constant. This transitory life promotes intercultural concession in the personal layer of self, leading to the emergence of a hybrid multicultural self-concept. The study thus contributes towards scholarship by revealing that the differences in individual linguistic circumstances in the process of intercultural negotiation appear to produce different levels of acquisition of the Xhosa culture and Xhosa by the Shona speakers. This is corroborated by the fact that Shona speakers who could not speak English learnt Xhosa faster than those who could speak English. This study argues that the maintenance of the Shona language by its speakers in Xhosa communities is as much their duty, as it is their right. Ultimately, the study posits that ethnocentrism stifles the intercultural communication process and leads to tiffs in multicultural communities / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Phil. (Languages, Linguistics and Literature) Culture Language and identity Culture and identity Social integration Identity Xhosa Ethnocentrism Cultural relativism Shona Xhosa communities Intercultural communication Interlocutors Xenophobia Co-cultural group Communication 306.440968735
33	A systematics for interpreting past structures with possible cosmic references in Sub-Saharan Africa Wade, Richard Peter 05 May 2009 (has links) This thesis presents a method of identifying astronomical expressionsinherent within the spatial geography, cultural landscapes, and layouts of structures with a view to implementing the systematics in an African context. In determining astronomical codes of the southern African pre - early farmer and metalworking archaeological sites - this review deals with oral tradition, rituals, formative calendars, fertility, meteorites, eclipses, bio-diversity, sustainable agriculture, rainmaking and the general star lore. Conclusions are drawn from the hypothesis that certain structures functioned as astronomical expressions by use of monoliths and other configurations, with specific examples of how these possibilities were drawn from aspects within the Mapungubwe/Zimbabwe Cultural Complex and the preceding riverine cultural formations. / Dissertation (MSc(Applied Science))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Architecture / unrestricted Ethnoastronomy Tourism Ancient africa Technologies and applied sciences Oral history Social sciences History Gamma-ray astronomy Computer simulation Ethno mathematics Mathematical literacy Astronomy Indigenous knowledge systems Lemba (culture) History Anthropology Culture and identity Agriculture Archaeology Historical astronomy Heritage Archaeoastronomy Calendars Cosmology Spatial geography Cultural landscapes Cave art Machema Mapungubwe Stelae Megaliths Monoliths Socialecology Heritage management Cultural landscape Cultural ecology Heritage conservation Systematics Heritage assessment Entoptic Cognitive anthropology Precision agriculture Indigenous material culture Venda Shona Sustainable agriculture Meteorology Cognitive Architecture Cosmic reference Neuropsychological theory Agricultural sciences Rainmaking Oral tradition UCTD

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