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Journal articles on the topic "Africa, West – Social life and customs"
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Carney, Judith, and Michael Watts. "Manufacturing dissent: work, gender and the politics of meaning in a peasant society." Africa 60, no. 2 (1990): 207–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160333.
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Introduction: The Manufacturing of DissentThis article addresses the changing nature of farm work in a peasant society in The Gambia, West Africa. The practice of farm labour has been transformed in the most palpable way by the advent of radically new technical and social relations of production associated with mechanised double-cropping of irrigated rice. Technical change, agricultural intensification and a new labour process are, however, all built upon the bedrock of household production, since peasant growers are socially integrated into the new scheme as contract farmers, specifically as contracted sharecroppers. Family labour continues to be the dominant social form in which labour power is mobilised, but under conditions directly determined and shaped by the contractors, namely project management. Irrigated double-cropping of rice production is particularly labour-demanding and makes expanded claims on customary structures of domestic labour recruitment. These new economic practices subject the culturally dominant representations of work, labour obligations and property rights—the constituents of custom and tradition— to the test of social practice. In our examination of Mandinka rice growers we suggest, following T. J. Clark, that ‘society is a battlefield of representations on which the limits and coherence of any given set are being fought for and regularly spoilt’ (Clark, 1984: 6). The introduction of a new production regime has converted rural Mandinka society into a contested social terrain; the primary struggle is a contest over gender and the conjugal contract in which property, or more accurately constellations of property rights, is at stake. By seeing economic life as, among other things, a realm of representations, we argue that the struggles over meaning and the manufacture of symbolic and material dissent in central Gambia—a proliferation of intrahousehold conflicts, juridical battles over divorce in the local courts, renegotiations of the conjugal contract—are the idioms of what Burawoy (1985) calls production politics.
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Bag, Sanjaya Kumar. "Folktales of West Odisha: A Study." Indian Journal of Multilingual Research and Development 1, no. 1 (2020): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/ijmrd2013.
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Folktales are a powerful source of oral tradition. Regional culture, environment, folk customs, customs and traditions, social customs, manners, beliefs, religious sentiments, and supernatural fantasies shape the content. The story also tells the story of the various cunning, conflicting concepts, life and physical creation, and birth mysteries of the groups involved. The article seeks to discuss the traditional and scholarly classification, the performers, and performance of folktales in West Odisha, also concerned with its socio-cultural implications.
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E. Dumett, Raymond. "Dancing skeletons—life and death in West Africa." Social Science & Medicine 40, no. 5 (1995): 723–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(95)80016-d.
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Dima Sеrgе, Patrick. "THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL SYSTEMS IN WEST AFRICA (CASE STUDY OF BURKINA FASO)." Scientific works of National Aviation University. Series: Law Journal "Air and Space Law" 1, no. 62 (2022): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18372/2307-9061.62.16482.
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Purpose: this article examines the impact of international judicial institutions on the development of the legal systems of West Africa, namely Burkina Faso. Research methods: synthesis, analysis, formal-legal, comparative-legal. Results: the impact of international judicial institutions on the development of West African legal systems, particularly in Burkina Faso, was assessed from the perspective of international conflict resolution and its impact on the rule and development of democracy in Africa, and the main grounds for conflict resolution were identified: Discussion: this article reveals the influence of international judicial institutions on the development of the legal systems of West African countries, often due to the political and social realities of the countries. These countries have generally succeeded in developing a colonial system of justice. The legal systems of West African countries derive from different traditions inherited from colonization. They have also been influenced by numerous customs and religious norms which influence the structure of the judicial system in each country. The region is now collectively developing under the aegis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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Sabar, Galia. "Africa - Israel - Africa Return-migration experiences of African labour migrants." Migration Letters 10, no. 1 (2013): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v10i1.111.
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This paper analyses homecoming experiences of African labour migrants who lived in Israel and returned home. Using qualitative research methodologies, I discerned what factors - material and non-material - determine the relative success of the return process. Focusing on these factors’ effects, I offer a new understanding of labour migrants’ homecoming experiences: those who are “content,” “readjusting,” or “lost. Following Ulrich Beck's (2006) analysis of cosmopolitanism, I suggest that these categories portray significant new life spaces that are neither what they left nor what they came from, and are dynamic, fragile, and constantly changing. In some cases the influence of economic assets on the returned migrants’ homecoming experience was indeed crucial, in many other cases the challenges of reconnecting oneself with home, family, and existing social norms and customs was much more influential on their homecoming experience including on their sense of well-being. Furthermore, some of the non-material goods such as individualization, personal responsibility, and long-term planning proved useful, others such as trust, particularly in relation to family, were detrimental.
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Hamzah, Nur, Sangkot Sirait, and Zulkipli Lessy. "Religion, Lifestyle, and Identity Affirmation within Middle Class Malay Muslims in Pontianak of West Borneo." Al-Albab 11, no. 1 (2022): 121–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24260/alalbab.v11i1.2221.
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This work aims at revealing the implications of modernization and improvement of the living standards of the middle-class Malay Muslim community in Pontianak City. The modern world has proven to affects the aspects of religion and culture of the people in the globe, including the Malay Muslims in Pontianak. This is based on research employing qualitative approach with the support of ethnographic activities. Observations and in-depth interviews were to support the data collection from middle-class Malay Muslims in Pontianak. The work suggests that the modernization and improvement of the social class of Pontianak Malay Muslims has changed their relationship to the Malay culture where they have become more selective towards existing customs and traditions. In addition, the increase in the living standards has in fact also increased the desire of Malay Muslims towards various efforts to affirm class identity. Modern Malay Muslims tend to addopt modern life style with the supports of Islamic teachings they practice in everyday life as they consider Islam as the foundation of their customs and traditions. The hegemony of modernity has penetrated the life of the Malay Muslims and influenced the characteristics of their religiousity and Malaydom to a more modernized style.
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Nulhasanah, Lisan, Hidayat Hasan, Asep Ahmad Hidayat, Usman Supendi, and Ajid Tohir. "KOSMOLOGI DALAM EKSPRESI RITUS SIKLUS HIDUP MUSLIM JAWA BARAT." FASTABIQ: JURNAL STUDI ISLAM 4, no. 2 (2023): 157–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.47281/fas.v4i2.140.
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The research aims to understand cosmological relationships both in the context of space and time, such as apamali or taboos in the life cycle which includes cultural customs, rituals: birth, circumcision and marriage in the West Javanese Sundanese community, both in the northern coastal communities (Cirebonan) and inlad. (mountains) like in Tatar Priangan (West Java settlement). The research methode used in thiss research in an antrhropological research method woth alibrary study approach with a content analysis method (Symbolic interpretation) of data from the anthropological method. The research resultas show that the life cycle of the people of West Java both in Sunda-Priangan and Cirebon, which represents the people of the North Coast of Java (West), implies the existence of four importans stages, namely pregnancy, birth, circumcision and marriage. Each of these stages has an important symbolic meaning in building identity and social ralations in West Java society which contains the meaning of the slametan cultural tradition in these cycles related to the subtsnce of belief or religion (Islam). Keywords: Cosmology; Pregnancy; Birth; Circumcision; Marriage
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Torno, Swetlana. "Book Review: Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa." Anthropology & Aging 43, no. 1 (2022): 74–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/aa.2022.388.
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Ghindă, Luciana Florentina. "L´Architecture Dogon." Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă, no. 1 (2015): 82–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.7.
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The purpose of this paper is to offer a brief review on the architectural style of the Dogon tribe from Mali, who is one of the most famous ethnic groups in Africa. Known for their amazing mask dances and wooden sculptures, they show us how the complex Dogon cosmogony is a part of their daily life because it explains the origin of the world and the traditional customs. The Dogon developed a style of mud architecture what amazes us with its variety because all the buildings in their village, such as granaries and toguna have a particular significance. The remarkable earthen architecture, social organization and religion are inseparable, everyday life mingle with the ritual life.
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Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu. "CHOREOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE, GENERATIONS AND THE ART OF LIFE IN POST-COLONIAL DAKAR." Africa 84, no. 1 (2014): 36–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000197201300065x.
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ABSTRACTThis article looks at three generations of choreographic performers in urban Senegal to examine the creative ways in which people develop their bodily skills, not only for the pleasure of innovation, but also to ‘make their way into the world’. In so doing, they produce new social spaces and engage with a multiplicity of existing ones. I suggest that this multiple engagement characterizes contemporary urban Africa, where social mobility is conceived of as multiplying the possibilities of building a decent life in spite of economic hardship. In West Africa, this is in continuity with a long history of social mobility achieved through travel and the acquisition of new skills. Through a multiple engagement with different genres, performers also experiment with new ways of producing choreographic work. At every juncture, the social spaces thus produced either intensify or reduce the connections with global spaces already laid out by previous generations.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Africa, West – Social life and customs"
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Anthonie, Alexa N. "Profiling bilingualism in an historically Afrikaans community on the Beaufort West Hooyvlakte." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2678.
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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH SUMMARY: This sociolinguistic study examines selected aspects of the linguistic behavior of a rural
language community in South Africa. The general aims are to establish first, whether this
"coloured" community in the historically Afrikaans town of Beaufort West is still
predominantly Afrikaans, second, whether there is evidence of language shift in the
community, specifically following more use of English in other formerly Afrikaans
communities after the change of government in 1994, and third, what the nature of such
language shift may be.
An overview of pertinent aspects of the social and political history of South Africa generally
and of Beaufort West specifically, is presented in order to contextualise the language
dispensation – past and present – addressed in this study. History reveals that the town in
question was first named Hooyvlakte and only later acquired the name of Beaufort West.
Hooyvlakte is currently the name of one of the suburbs in which a section of Beaufort West's
"coloured" community resides. For the purpose of this study the larger Beaufort West
community which is in focus here, is also referred to as the Hooyvlakte community
The study is mainly of a qualitative nature. The respondents were 184 members of the
Hooyvlakte community, they included individuals of both genders and were aged between 16
and 87 years. The only requirement for participation in this study was that the respondent
should have been a Beaufort West resident for at least 15 years. Each respondent completed a
questionnaire from which his/her language proficiency, language use and language preference
could be assessed. The questionnaire also allowed respondents an opportunity to express their
opinion on the value and practice of multilingualism in their community.
The results of this study indicate that the Hooyvlakte community remains predominantly
Afrikaans. There is, however, an increase in the knowledge and use of English, and despite
possible limits in actual English proficiency, the residents in the Hooyvlakte mostly view
themselves as balanced Afrikaans-English bilinguals. This view is related to the gradual
change in linguistic identity, from an almost exclusively (often stigmatized) Afrikaans
identity to a (mostly proud) Afrikaans-English bilingual one. The stigmatized "coloured" and
Afrikaans identities appear to be products of South Africa's sociopolitical history of ethnic
and cultural categorisation and segregation. Stigma, on the one hand, and exclusion, on the
other, have led to a desire in the Hooyvlakte community to associate with a language other
than Afrikaans as well. This shift to an Afrikaans-English bilingual identity contrasts with the
shift from predominantly Afrikaans monolingualism to virtual monolingualism in English
found in other Coloured communities studied in the Western Cape's and Eastern Cape's
metropoles (see Anthonissen and George 2003; Farmer 2009; Fortuin 2009).<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie sosiolinguistiese studie ondersoek geselekteerde aspekte van die talige gedrag van 'n
landelike taalgemeenskap in Suid Afrika. Die algemene doelstellings van die studie is
eerstens, om vas te stel of die "bruin" gemeenskap in die histories Afrikaanse dorp Beaufort-
Wes steeds hoofsaaklik Afrikaans is, tweedens, of daar aanduidings is van taalverskuiwing,
spesifiek een wat neig na 'n toenemende gebruik van Engels, soos gevind is in ander histories
Afrikaanse gemeenskappe na die regeringsverandering in1994, en derdens, wat die aard van
so 'n taalverskuiwing sou wees.
'n Oorsig word gegee oor beduidende aspekte van die sosiale en politieke geskiedenis van
Suid-Afrika in die algemeen, en meer spesifiek van Beaufort-Wes, om die huidige en
voormalige taalsituasie soos dit in hierdie studie aan die orde kom, te kontekstualiseer.
Geskiedkundige verslae wys daarop dat die dorp eers die naam Hooyvlakte gehad het voor dit
verander is na Beaufort-Wes. Hooyvlakte is tans die naam van een van die dorp se
woonbuurte waar 'n gedeelte van Beaufort-Wes se "bruin" gemeenskap woonagtig is. In
hierdie studie benoem "Hooyvlakte" die "bruin" gemeenskap van die hele dorp. Dit is in húlle
wat hierdie tesis geïnteresseerd is.
Die studie is hoofsaaklik kwalitatief van aard. Die respondente was 184 lede van die
Hooyvlakte gemeenskap, en deelnemers het individue van beide geslagte tussen die
ouderdomme van 16 en 87 jaar ingesluit. Die enigste vereiste vir deelname aan die studie was
dat informante reeds 15 jaar in Beaufort-Wes woonagtig moes wees. Elke informant het 'n
vraelys voltooi op grond waarvan sy/haar taalvaardigheid, taalgebruik en taalvoorkeur
vasgestel kon word. Die vraelys het ook die informante geleentheid gegee om hul mening te
lug oor die waarde en gebruik van veeltaligheid in hul gemeenskap.
Die bevindinge van die studie toon aan dat die Hooyvlakte gemeenskap steeds hoofsaaklik
Afrikaans is. Daar is egter 'n toename in hul kennis en gebruik van Engels, en ten spyte van
moontlike beperkinge in hul Engelse taalvaardigheid wat formele toetse sou kon uitwys,
beskou deelnemers hulself steeds as gebalanseerde tweetalige sprekers van Afrikaans en
Engels. Hierdie siening hou verband met 'n verskuiwing in talige identiteit, van 'n oorwegend
eksklusiewe (meestal gestigmatiseerde) Afrikaanse identiteit na 'n (grootliks trotse) Afrikaans
en Engels tweetalige identiteit. Die gestigmatiseerde Bruin en Afrikaanse identiteite blyk
neweprodukte te wees van die (etniese en kulturele) klassifiseringsgebruike uit die vorige
Suid-Afrikaanse sosio-politiese bestel. Stigma, enersyds, en uitsluiting, andersyds, het 'n
begeerte in die Hooyvlakte gemeenskap laat ontstaan, om te assosieer met 'n ander taal
benewens Afrikaans. Hierdie verskuiwing na 'n tweetalige Afrikaans-Engelse identiteit
kontrasteer met die verskuiwing van hoofsaaklik Afrikaanse taalidentiteit na feitlik uitsluitlik
eentalig Engelse identiteit, wat onlangs in "bruin" gemeenskappe elders waargeneem en
opgeteken is (vgl. Anthonissen en George 2003; Farmer 2009; Fortuin 2009).
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Ndiaye, Malick. "The impact of health beliefs and culture on health literacy and treatment of diabetes among French speaking West African immigrants." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2050.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.<br>Title from screen (viewed on February 1, 2010). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Ulla M. Connor, Frank M. Smith, Honnor Orlando. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-139).
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Gomes, Shelene. "The social reproduction of Jamaica Safar in Shashamane, Ethiopia." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2548.
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Since the 1950s, men and women, mainly Rastafari from the West Indies, have moved as repatriates to Shashamane, Ethiopia. This is a spiritually and ideologically oriented journey to the promised land of Ethiopia (Africa) and to the land granted by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I. Although migration across regions of the global south is less common than migration from the global south to north, this move is even more distinct because it is not primarily motivated by economic concerns. This thesis - the first in-depth ethnographic study of the repatriate population - focuses on the conceptual and pragmatic ways in which repatriates and their Ethiopian-born children “rehome” this area of Shashamane that is now called Jamaica Safar (or village in the Amharic language). There is a simultaneous Rasta identification of themselves as Ethiopians and as His Majesty’s people, which is often contested in legal and civic spheres, with a West Indian social inscription of Shashamane. These dynamics have emerged from a Rastafari re-invention of personhood that was fostered in West Indian Creole society. These ideas converge in a central concern with the inalienability of the land grant that is shared by repatriates, their children and Rastafari outside Ethiopia as well. Accordingly, the repatriate population of Shashamane becomes the centre of international social and economic networks. The children born on this land thus demonstrate the success of their parents’ repatriation. They are the ones who will ensure the Rastafari presence there in perpetuity.
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Edwards, Ian, and Ian Edwards. "The Social Life of Wild-Things: Negotiated Wildlife in Mali, West Africa." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12540.
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Two markets located in Bamako, Mali, West Africa specialize in the commodification of wildlife, and in so doing contest western-centric notions of globalization. Founded in traditional medicine, the Marabagaw Yoro sells wildlife to serve the needs of the local community, while the Artisana, a state sponsored institution, manufactures fashion accoutrements from wildlife and is oriented towards meeting the demands of tourists. Actors in both markets effectively curb the impact of national and international forces and demonstrate the necessity of putting local-global relations at the heart of transnational studies. Malians are not weak and reactive, but potent and proactive. They become so by engaging in networks that move out from the two markets and that intersect to a degree. Through these networks, local actors negotiate and/or manipulate national and international forces for personal benefit for example, using wildlife for profit, despite national and international sanctions. As such, these markets are sites of articulation, where local resource users engage the world at large and actively negotiate a myriad of values as well as mediate political and economic pressures. Investigating these networks helps us understand the actual, empirical complexities of globalization while allowing for the agency of local actors.
Supplemental File: Wild Species of the APT and their Conservation Status
This file is an Excel spreadsheet of all wild species recorded in association with the Animal Parts Trade (APT) of Mali. It includes the following classes of vertebrates: Pisces, Aves, Reptilia, and Mammalia, as well as provides their conservation status and additional details.
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Howard, Nancy Jill. "Reinterpreting the influence of domestic ideology on women and their families during westward migration." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834147.
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The purpose of this study is to reinterpret the influence of domestic ideology on middle-class Anglo women during westward migration using the Oregon Trail as a case study. By analyzing traditional cultural constructs which portrayed women as "reluctant drudges" or " stoic helpmates," a new paradigm for trail women emerged. The inculcated tenets of domesticity, comprised of a domestic routine and a values system, seemed to have equipped women with domestically-related role identities, and thus facilitated the accommodation of these women to the challenges of trail life. In addition, this ideology served as the basis for establishing relationships with Native American women, for Anglo women recognized similaritiesbetween the domestic routine of Native Americans and themselves. Finally, shared domestic chores and values enabled Anglo women to develop non-competitive, mutually beneficial relationships with each other, in contrast to the often competitive nature of interaction between men.<br>Department of History
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McAllister, P. A. "Xhosa beer drinks and their oratory." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012863.
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This is a study of 'beer drinks' among Xhosa people living in the Shixini administrative area of Willowvale district, Transkei. Beer drinks are defined as a 'polythetic' class of events distinguishable from other kinds of ceremonies and rituals at which beer may be consumed, and an attempt is made to outline their major characteristics. A detailed description of the way in which beer drinks are conducted is provided in Chapter 3, with emphasis on the symbolism involved in the allocation of beer, space and time, and on the speech events (including formal oratory) that occur. The main theoretical argument is that beer drinks may be regarded as 'cultural performances' in which social reality or 'practice' is dramatised and reflected upon, enabling people to infuse their experience with meaning and to establish guidelines for future action. This is achieved by relating social practice to cultural norms and values, in a dynamic rather than a static manner. It is demonstrated that the symbolism involved in beer drinking is highly sensitive to the real world and adjusts accordingly, which means that 'culture' is continually being reinterpreted. Despite poverty, a degree of landlessness and heavy reliance on migrant labour, Shixini people maintain an ideal of rural selfsufficiency and are able to partly fulfill this ideal, thereby maintaining a degree of independence and resistance to full incorporation into the wider political economy of southern Africa. They achieve this largely by maintaining a strong sense of community and of household interdependence, linked to a sense of Xhosa tradition. It is this aspect of social practice, manifested in a variety of forms - work parties, ploughing companies, rites of passage, and so on - that is dramatised, reflected upon and reinforced at beer drinks. In a definite sense then, beer drinks may be regarded as a response and a way of adapting to apartheid, and this study one of a community under threat.
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Mbewe, Mpho. "‘Ubhuti wami’: a qualitative secondary analysis of brothering among isiXhosa men." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013149.
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This project is interested in investigating the construction of the fraternal sibling relationshipwithin the South African context from a narrative perspective. In particular, this study is interested in the ways in which middle aged isiXhosa men narrate experiences of brothering and how social class, as one particular context, mediates these narratives. This project is particularly interested in brothering within the isiXhosa culture and is concerned with both middle class and working class men within this cultural context. The project takes as its particular focus the meaning of brothering, and specifically how masculinity, intimacy and money or class influence the brothering practices constructed by the men in the sample. The project employs a social constructionist perspective, using a thematic narrative analysis to analyse the data. This project uses secondary analysis of data, as the data was collected for the primary use by Jackson (2009), Peirce (2009), Saville Young (Saville Young & Jackson, 2011) and Stonier (2010). The analysis reflects emergent themes of the importance of fraternal sacrifice, care-taking and sibling responsibility, honouring the family, and challenge to traditional masculinity. These themes emerged within the prior themes of masculinity, intimacy and class within brothering. The men spoke of keeping the family prosperous and united as an important duty in their brothering role. Affection was expressed more practically and symbolically, and closeness constructed through shared experiences, proximity and similarities. My findings reflect that family expectations, culture and social context had key influences on brothering, based on the men's narratives. Findings are discussed in relation to literature on brothering, masculinity and intimacy, and the influence of money in close relationships.
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Husni, Rahiem Maila Dinia. "Learning from the west : sexuality education in taboo Javanese society." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81497.
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In this thesis I examine the issues of sex education in Western and Javanese society using a conceptual-comparative approach. My main goal is to highlight the importance of sex education for young people in Javanese society. Research foci and discoveries include: how the notions of conservatism with regards to sexuality are rooted in Javanese culture and social values; the definitions, history, components, methods and principles of Western sex education (particularly Canadian); the measures of success for sex education programs in the West; and to what extent Western sex education can be applied to Javanese society. In the final chapter I offer recommendations for Javanese educational authorities on the need to create a new terminology of sex education.
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Philogene, Heron Adom. "Fathermen : predicaments in fatherhood, masculinity and the kinship lifecourse, Dominica, West Indies." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10999.
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Fathermen is an ethnographic journey in the kinship lives of men on the island of Dominica, West Indies. It traces the various complexities, conundra and contradictions Dominican men encounter and create as they navigate relational life trajectories. These are termed kinship predicaments: moments in kin-lives that trouble hegemonic concepts of fatherhood and masculine personhood; that spark ambivalence between dominant ideals and lived experiences; that provoke quarrels between mothers' expectations and fathers' practices; and expose incongruities between established norms and emerging forms. Seeking to transcend the historical and contemporary circumscriptions that stereotype Caribbean fathers as absent studs or patriarchal authoritarians, this enquiry asks how Dominican men chart their own paths of paternal becoming. Developing an intuitive participatory methodology, referred to as the ethnography of relation, Fathermen commutes into the kin-worlds of Caribbean men, seeking to understand fatherhood through deep dialogue as it is built from the ground up. Organising its chapters around local idioms through which Dominicans frame kinship, Fathermen features discussions on: the romantic and conjugal tensions that precede/inform parenting; the ‘mystic' bodily affects that draw men into reproduction; the vexed norm of paternal provision; Caribbean fathers' emergent nurturant practices; the classed politics of paternal recognition; and, finally, men's ambivalent intergenerational experiences of becoming grandfathers. Fathermen argues that it often takes a lifetime to realise fatherhood, with many Dominican men unable to resolve its many paradoxes within their mortal spans. Whilst it contends that men are ‘tied' tighter into kin-life as they grow along their paternal journeys, ambivalences persist. Yet still, amidst angst and complexity, Fathermen is nonetheless an ethnography of love, dedication, familial vitality, creativity and humour.
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McDonald, Shirley Ann. "The Sheppard journals, British cowboys in the Canadian west." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65043.pdf.
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Congregation, Windhoek Hebrew. Jewish life in South West Africa/Namibia: A history. Windhoek Hebrew Congregation, 2014.
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Peel, Dawn Margaret. Anna's journey: A British lady in West Africa and colonial Australia. D. Peel, 2008.
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C, Conrad David, and Frank Barbara E, eds. Status and identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande. Indiana University Press, 1995.
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Denisova, Tatiana S. "The Role of Traditional Leaders in the Political Life of West Africa: The Case of Ghana." In The Evolution of Social Institutions. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51437-2_17.
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Middleton, Alexandra. "The Social Life of Medicine:." In Doing Development in West Africa. Duke University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1220q5w.6.
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"2. The Social Life of Medicine." In Doing Development in West Africa. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822374039-004.
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Ijimakinwa, Feyisitan, and Fortune Afatakpa. "New media, social relationships and communication imperatives: A study of Christlove Fellowship Alumni WhatsApp groups." In WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa. Zed Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350257900.ch-7.
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Pacholek, Kamila, Madalina Prostean, Sarah Burris, et al. "‘The Forum’: A WhatsApp support group for health and social service providers during the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon." In WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa. Zed Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350257900.ch-5.
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Fairhead, James, and Melissa Leach. "Representatives of the Past: Trees in Historical Dispute and Socialised Ecology in the Forest Zone of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa." In The Social Life of Trees. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003136040-15.
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Brown, Andrew. "History And The Origins Of Life." In J. D. Bernal. Oxford University PressOxford, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198515449.003.0018.
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Abstract Bernal’s friends were among the most important science writers of their time. Restricting the group to those who worked in England, and leaving aside C.P. Snow and J.G. Crowther who lived by their pens, they were remarkable for the range, quality and volume of their collective output. Haldane inherited H.G. Wells’ mantle as the best popular writer about science, but even he could not match the sales of Lancelot Hogben whose Mathematics for the Million: A Popular Self-Educator is estimated to have sold over half a million copies during its four editions. The doyen of the set was Joseph Needham, who abandoned his own career as an embryologist during the Second World War and devoted the remainder of his life to a landmark study of China, concentrating on the history of scientific development and the influence played by Chinese religion, politics and customs. Over a period of forty years, Needham published successive volumes of Science and Civilization in China, the early numbers of which were eagerly read, and often reviewed, by Sage. Needham came to believe that the predominance of Chinese science and technology for Wfteen hundred years and its subsequent eclipse by European science from the seventeenth century onwards could be understood only in terms of differences between the social and economic systems of China and the West – an historical approach stimulated by his conversations with Bernal in Cambridge before the war.
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Cooper, Frederick. "Voting, Welfare and Registration: The Strange Fate of the État-Civil in French Africa, 1945–1960." In Registration and Recognition. British Academy, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265314.003.0016.
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In 1946, the French constitution made colonial subjects in Africa into citizens. Having been content to rule ‘tribes’ via their ‘chiefs’, at that point it had to track individuals entitled to vote and receive social benefits. The new citizens retained their personal status — regulating marriage, filiation, and inheritance — under Islamic law or local ‘customs’ rather than through the civil code. That posed a dilemma for French officials, for the état-civil did not just record life events, but symbolized the integration of all into a single body of citizens. French officials and legislators — including African representatives — could not agree on whether the multiple status regimes necessitated two états-civils or one. In the end, officials were too torn between their recognition of difference among peoples under French rule and their desire for singularity to put in place a consistent policy of identification, registration, and surveillance. They bequeathed the problem to their successors.
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Harries, Jim. "Formal Adoption of Wholistic Evaluation of English is Urgently Needed to Avoid Generation of Racism in the West, and Under-Development in Africa." In Reviving and Re-Writing Ethics in Social Research For Commoning the Community. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8526-2.ch005.
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Evaluation of English language knowledge without consideration of pragmatic use lures ‘the poor' to Western academia. Thus, not addressing their own issues, this results in an unhelpful brain drain and magnet. Wholistic evaluation would, by undoing this lure, enable educational focus on indigenous concerns in Africa. The secularisation-project, that demotes other people's ways of life into ‘world religions' status, and ignores impacts of Christianity on world history, is subjected to critical scrutiny.
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Levine, Lawrence W. "The Sacred World of Black Slaves." In Black Culture and Black Consciousness. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195305692.003.0001.
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Abstract The Africans brought to the English colonies as slaves in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries did not carry with them a network of beliefs, customs, institutions, and practices constituting what might be called with accuracy a unified “African” culture. No such monolithic cultural entity existed. The peoples of Africa created a myriad of languages, religions, customs, social, political, and economic institutions which differentiated them and gave them separate identities. These marked differences have been cited frequently to illustrate the insuperable obstacles slaves in the British colonies of North America faced in keeping a semblance of their traditional cultures alive. With few exceptions-the most notable being W. E. B. Du Bois and Melville Herskovits-most scholars until very recently have assumed that because United States slavery eroded so much of the linguistic and institutional side of African life it necessarily wiped out almost all of the fundamental aspects of traditional African cultures. “The Negro,” Robert Park wrote in 1919, in a statement that typifies much of twentieth-century scholarship on this question, “when he landed in the United States, left behind him almost everything but his dark complexion and his tropical temperament. Coming from all parts of Africa and having no common language and common tradition, the memories of Africa which they brought with them were soon lost.” This inability to transmit and perpetuate African culture on American soil, Park maintained, made the Negro unique among the peoples of the United States. “Other peoples have lost, under the disintegrating influence of the American environment, much of their cultural heritage. None have been so utterly cut off and estranged from their ancestral land, traditions and people.”
Conference papers on the topic "Africa, West – Social life and customs"
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Uribe, Marcos Barinas. "Studio Africa: Mangue Negotiations." In 2021 ACSA Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2021.15.
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The Illinois School of Architecture is committed to developing students with an informed worldview through global and local engagement.1 These opportunities form students with a truly global and social perspective on architecture and the built environment, a critical quality of tomorrow’s design professionals. According to the master’s program main objective, students should learn to analyze complex environments and propose innovative design solutions to the world’s most urgent problems. This paper will focus on an academic exercise that challenged traditional mapping methodologies and embraced science and big data towards more creative collaborative processes. Within the aesthetics of remote collaboration, this experiment on map-making inverted the technicality of drawing, challenging the participants to map, model, and represent an expanded worldwide view of the mangrove ecosystem. The study of coastal cities has been traditionally conditioned to a Eurocentric vision of space, where the importance of the metropolis and its infrastructure is imposed over the singularities of the people’s relationship with landscape and nature. Coastal cities in the West Africa and The Caribbean are potential laboratories of climate adaption for building and social space. However, its study and analysis have not called upon cross-disciplinary approaches to develop conceptual and methodological frameworks between natural, cultural and social scientists. “The mangrove is in fact a sensitive figure in our collective consciousness; it is in our nature, a cradle, a source of life, of birth and rebirth.”2 — Patrick Chamoiseau
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Ogechi, Nnenna Okereke, Rosa Maria Ortega, Dr. Ramos, and Philomena Akpoveso Oke-Oghene. "Prevalence of Depression Among Medical Students Of The American International University, West Africa." In 28th iSTEAMS Multidisciplinary Research Conference AIUWA The Gambia. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v28n2p13.
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Background: Depression is one of the major mental disorders experienced by people of various age groups and works of life all over the world. Those in the medical field are not excluded. With the intense training and high level of physical, mental and emotional demands placed on medical students, they tend to become depressed. This not only affects their learning process or overall academic performance; it also affects them professionally in the future, which in turn would lead to compromise in patient care. In The Gambia, there is a lack of data on the prevalence of depression and the impacts it has on medical students. Thus, this study assessed the prevalence of depression among students of the American International University West Africa (AIUWA), The Gambia. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among medical students of AIUWA over a two-month period (June to July 2021). A self-structured questionnaire was used to obtain information on sociodemographic characteristics. Diagnosis of depression was assessed using the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). A total of 100 students were included in this study. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. Results: The overall prevalence of depression among the participants was 36%, with PHQ-9 scores ≥ 10. With regards to the severity of depression, 26 (26%), 21 (21%), 11 (11%), and 4(4%) students were classified as having mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression respectively. Efficiency of monthly allowance (p = 0.022, Φ = 0.251, V= 0.251), self-rated academic performance (p = 0.012, Φ = 0.297, V = 0.297) and prior history of depression (p = 0.001, Φ = 0.347, V = 0.347), were independently associated with depression. Conclusion: The prevalence of depression among medical students of the American International University, is high, and is associated with inefficient monthly allowance, consumption of alcohol, average academic performance and prior history of depression. It is recommended that there should be an implementation of a guidance and counseling department within the university., Keywords: Depression, Medical Students, AIUWA, University, West Africa Proceedings Reference Format
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Li, Zhongwei, and Aimin Wang. "The Environmental Benefits of Offshore Platform Structural Optimization." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/32050-ms.
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Abstract The objective of this study is to provide an approach to quantify the environmental benefits of the structural optimization in offshore platform design. As the interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has surged among investors and corporate stakeholders, the offshore industry will be able to use the quantitative calculations to demonstrate the effort in addressing climate issues. Offshore platforms are usually constructed in the yards in East Asia and towed to the installation sites in the Gulf of Mexico, Asia Pacific, Europe, or West Africa. The carbon dioxide emission (CO2) starts from steel production and continues in the construction, transportation, and installation. The environmental impact is measured quantitatively for the structural steel of offshore platforms during its life cycle up to the installation. Three optimally designed offshore platforms are compared with nearly thirty offshore platforms to quantify the reduction of greenhouse gas emission by structural optimization. The study shows that the optimized offshore platform designs significantly reduced carbon dioxide emission and other environmental impact. The quantified results are comparable to other measures addressing the climate issue. The awareness of ESG has posted additional challenges to the offshore industry. For example, Harvard University has decided not to invest in fossil fuel industry. Recently, ExxonMobile board was challenged by shareholders to address the climate issue. While providing important contributions to the economy and energy demand, the offshore industry needs to embrace the challenges and show the focus on ESG. In the past, structural optimization is usually not prioritized or only for cost and performance objectives of having less material purchase and more payload. Now using the quantitative approach to calculate the reduced environment impact from structural optimization, the engineers will have additional incentives to carry on structural optimizationregarding ESG. The same approach can be applied to designs related to renewable energy like offshore wind turbines to show the benefits in ESG from structural optimization. The quantitative measures to calculate the environmental benefits of reducing structural weight are provided by this study for the offshore industry. This important tool enables the offshore industry to show the emphasis on ESG to investors and stakeholders starting from the engineering design stage.