12 research outputs found
Refashioning Sub-National Pasts for Post-National Futures: The Xhosa Cattle Killing in Recent South African Literature
No full textXenophobic or not? A case of amaXhosa with regard to amaGqunuqhwa as reflected in MAP Ngani's Umkhonto kaTshiwo
No full textEthnographic Fieldwork in the Dutch Cape Colony at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Ludwig Alberti
No full textAftershock sequences of three seismic crises at southern California, USA, simulated by a cellular automata model based on self-organized criticality
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Reappraising the concept of biocultural diversity: a perspective from South Africa
No full textBiocultural diversity has been conceptualised as the sum of the world’s differences regarding biological diversity at all levels and cultural diversity in all its manifestations, and their interactions. The concept is often framed in the context of conservation as a retention versus loss model by emphasizing the religious and spiritual values of the natural environment and the positive interactions between traditional indigenous people and conservation of natural ecosystems and indigenous species. On the basis of our research amongst the ‘non-traditional’ amaXhosa in South Africa, we argue that this interpretation is too narrow and that the concept needs to be reappraised in order to capture the dynamic, complex and relational nature of bio-cultural diversity relations. We conclude that the concept involves a complex of human values and practices related to the three main dimensions of biodiversity at landscapes, species and genetic levels
HIV and the remaking of hunger and nutrition in South Africa: Biopolitical specification after apartheid
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