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Price, Christine. "Decolonising a landscape architecture studio: Spatial modelling of student narratives." Multimodality & Society 1, no. 1 (March 2021): 39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2634979521992737.

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This paper problematises the dominance of global north perspectives in landscape architectural education, in South Africa where there are urgent calls to decolonise education and make visible indigenous and vernacular meaning-making practices. In grappling with these concerns, this research finds resonance with a multimodal social semiotic approach that acknowledges the interest, agency and resourcefulness of students as meaning-makers in both accessing and challenging dominant educational discourses. This research involves a case study of a design project in a first-year landscape architectural studio. The project requires students to choose a narrative and to represent it as a spatial model: a scaled, 3D maquette of a spatial experience that could be installed in a public park. This practitioner reflection closely analyses the spatial model of one student, Malibongwe, focusing on his interest in meaning-making; the innovative meaning-making practices and diverse resources he draws on; and his expression of spatial signifiers of the Black experiences portrayed in his narrative. This reflection shows how Malibongwe’s narrative is not only reproduced in the spatial model, it is remade: the transformation of resources into three-dimensional spatial form results in new understandings and the production of new meanings.

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Misra, Manjusha. "South Asian vernacular architecture." International Journal of Environmental Studies 73, no. 4 (July 3, 2016): 481–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2016.1199400.

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Hibbert, Liesel. "English in South Africa: parallels with African American vernacular English." English Today 18, no. 1 (January 2002): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078402001037.

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A comparison between Black English usage in South Africa and the United StatesThere has been a long tradition of resistance in South African politics, as there has been for African-Americans in the United States. The historical links between African Americans and their counterparts on the African continent prompt one to draw a comparison between the groups in terms of linguistic and social status. This comparison demonstrates that Black South African English (BSAfE) is a distinctive form with its own stable conventions, as representative in its own context as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is in the United States.

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Demissie, Fassil, and Clive M. Chipkin. "Representing Architecture in South Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 30, no. 2 (1997): 349. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221232.

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Sieberhagen, F. "Understanding the role the Bible Society of South Africa played in the development of missions in South Africa." Verbum et Ecclesia 25, no. 2 (October 6, 2004): 676–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v25i2.293.

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This article argues that the development of Missions in South Africa could be directly linked to the founding of Bible Society work in South Africa. The article focuses on the development of missions and how the availability of Scriptures in the vernacular enhanced this work. The unique relationship between Mission development, the Church and the Bible Society will be discussed as to highlight and fully understand this unique influence and partnership. This partnership is an ongoing relationship and with the new challenges arising this will have to be developed even further.

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Yun, Jieheerah. "Rethinking vernacular architecture: the case of Hanoks in South Korea." Journal of Architecture 19, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 108–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2014.885555.

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Williams, V. L., K. Balkwill, and E. T. F. Witkowski. "A lexicon of plants traded in the Witwatersrand umuthi shops, South Africa." Bothalia 31, no. 1 (September 17, 2001): 71–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v31i1.508.

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At least 511 medicinal plant species are traded commercially in 50 Witwatersrand umuthi shops. The plants are listedalphabetically by genus and common (vernacular) name. The orthographic vernacular names, as well as the orthographicvariations in these names, are incorporated into the list. Annotations include the plant family, the number of umuthi shopsstocking the species, the language of the common name, and the plant part traded. The plant family in the region which hasthe highest number of species and infraspecific taxa in trade is Liliaceae sensu lato., followed in descending order by Fabaceae, Asteraceae. Euphorbiaceae and Amaryllidaceae. Approximately 88.6% of the vernacular names are in Zulu. Themean number of umuthi shops per species is 12.3. ranging from 1 to 41. Three hundred and fifty three species (69.2%) occurin the four northern provinces, and 23 species are listed as threatened on the Red Data List.

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Pelmoine, Thomas, and Anne Mayor. "Vernacular architecture in eastern Senegal: Chaînes opératoires and technical choices." Journal of Material Culture 25, no. 3 (April 18, 2020): 348–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183520907929.

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Architecture is an important component of cultural identity, but knowledge regarding construction techniques using local materials is gradually disappearing, and this subject has rarely been studied in sub-Saharan Africa. This ethno-archaeological study of current vernacular architecture and its evolution during the past three centuries in eastern Senegal therefore brings innovative results that are interesting on different levels. In relation to West Africa, the authors aim to provide new knowledge useful for archaeologists lacking references for interpreting past remains, as well as an archive for historical and heritage studies. More widely, the study constitutes a reference for the description of various mud-building techniques and an attempt to understand the mechanisms explaining their transformations, which should concern all scientists interested in vernacular architecture, in Africa and beyond. More precisely, this article accounts for the variability of techniques used for constructing walls and roofs of dwellings in the Faleme valley among different ethno-linguistic groups, while considering the environmental, cultural and socio-economic factors at play. The authors’ methodology is based on a description of the chaînes opératoires of construction, interviews, mapping and statistical analysis. The patterns observed facilitate a discussion on the evolution of techniques, environmental adaptations, the transfer of knowledge and the role of history in material culture dynamics.

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Dold, A. P., and M. L. Cocks. "Preliminary list of Xhosa plant names from Eastern Cape, South Africa." Bothalia 29, no. 2 (October 1, 1999): 267–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v29i2.601.

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1 990 Xhosa names for 1 065 taxa that have been identified in the Selmar Schonland Herbarium and have had names confirmed by more than one source, are listed alphabetically as a further addition to the knowledge of vernacular names of plants for Eastern Cape. Ecological terms are given at the end of the list.

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Ghanbari, Javid. "An Investigation into Architectural Creolization of West African Vernacular Mosques." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 8, no. 9 (September 4, 2021): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v8i9.2874.

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In investigating the influence of religious thoughts on architecture, much attention has been given to divine world-wide religions by the researchers, while indigenous religions have to a great extent been neglected. Ancient tribes in different parts of the world, have, on the basis of their cosmology, shaped beliefs which reflect on their architecture, especially on their sacred buildings. Regarding the Dogons-a well-known and a dominant tribe in West Africa- their Gods, cosmology and beliefs have led to the formation of settlements comprising houses, temples and other types of buildings in accordance with their religious thoughts while also being in harmony with nature. Up on the expansion of Islam throughout Africa, especially West Africa, vernacular mosques are shaped gradually beside shrines making a typology of Islamic architecture which has traces of both Dogon and Islamic architecture within it; While the influence of natural materials and indigenous building techniques should not be neglected. Taking a descriptive-deductive analysis approach, this paper will search for the architectural creolization process and will eventually conclude that West African vernacular mosques inherit their formal and spatial features mostly from Dogon house and pioneer mosques in Medina and their physical features, elements and exterior decorations from Dogon temples.

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James, Sule Ameh. "CRITICAL DISCOURSE OF AFRICAN VERNACULAR ROOTED IMAGERIES IN PITIKA NTULI’S SCULPTURES." ARTis ON, no. 9 (December 26, 2019): 140–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.37935/aion.v0i9.246.

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My paper presents a critical discourse on African vernacular rooted imageries in the contemporary sculptures of Ntuli, the ideas they convey to viewers and how Africanness is indicated in each depiction produced between 2007 and 2016. I read Ntuli’s contemporary sculptures as African vernacular rooted because he appropriates in them cultural imageries from engagement with African contexts. Five images of his sculptures and installations were purposively selected for thematic and visual analysis. I adopt visual hermeneutics theory, formal analysis and cultural history methods for the reading of each work. The narrative reveals that Ntuli’s vernacular imageries reflects black South African men and a woman rooted in past and present socio-political events in South Africa. The thematic interpretations of the imageries reveal ideas on massacre not merely during apartheid but in post-apartheid South Africa, torture of victims detained without trial, anti-racialism and reflection on a historical hero from Zulu culture.

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Hernández Navarro, Y., P. de Dato, and A. Langa Lahoz. "DISTURBANCES IN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE OF TOGO'S RURAL SETTLEMENTS." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIV-M-1-2020 (July 24, 2020): 761–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-m-1-2020-761-2020.

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Abstract. According to the United Nations (UN) Africa accounts for only 13% of the world's urban population and less than half of the inhabitants of this continent (43%) live in urban areas (Xinhua News Agency, 2017). Therefore, the cultural importance of rural architecture in this context is remarkable both locally for each society and generally for human knowledge. As Paul Oliver pointed out, vernacular architecture is the architectural language of people with their ethnic, regional and local dialects (Oliver, 1997), and it should be considered a treasure containing the knowledge, development and progress of a civilization. The formal and material results of this development lead to the reopening of the debate on its sustainability and its effects on human behaviour. The structural changes of rural habitats are putting the preservation of their cultural heritage at serious risk. The current demand for habitability fosters the use of imported materials such as cement and sheet metal to replace earthen walls and straw roofing in the simple constructions, solutions that deceptively improve the comfort of the inhabited spaces. The present article analyses residential construction typologies of traditional rural settlements of Togo, where the constructive, formal and technical variety is replaced by general solutions that, without achieving the desired housing improvement, are nonetheless contributing to the social detachment from traditions that represent the cultural identity of each community. The methodology aims at the identification and characterization of traditional residential typologies, and a final consideration evaluates the balance between sustainable development and the conservation of cultural values in rural settlements.

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Sanders, Paul. "Defining a relevant architecture in South Africa." Architectural Research Quarterly 4, no. 1 (March 2000): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135500002438.

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Architecture in South Africa is at a crossroads. After years of repression and isolation during which contemporary architecture lost its way, there is now a desperate need for architects to respond to the social and cultural challenges of a society riven by massive material contrasts. Within architecture schools, a student body more representative of society than hitherto is engaged in projects which reflect the very diverse needs of the community. Central to the effectiveness of such teaching programmes is the presence of teachers fully engaged in practice, creating a responsible architecture for a renewed nation.

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Peters, Walter. "Apartheid politics and architecture in South Africa." Social Identities 10, no. 4 (July 2004): 537–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350463042000258953.

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Oktarini, Maya Fitri. "The Role of Riverway in The Spreading of Vernacular Architecture in South Sumatra, Indonesia." Indonesian Journal of Geography 51, no. 3 (December 31, 2019): 385. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ijg.43923.

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The development of past settlements was supported by riverways connecting many regions with ethnic diversities. Inter-ethnic dissemination and contact created new cultural combinations. In the southern part of Sumatra, there are two types of stilt houses: highland architecture and lowland architecture. Both architectures are developed by different ethnic groups spread along different riverways. This study focuses on identifying and analyzing the influence of the riverway in the typology of the vernacular stilt house. The architectural typology data was confirmed by field observations and interviews. The analysis was carried out through the Geographic Information System to correlate the influence of the riverway and the ethnic culture on the distribution of the architecture and its transformations. The results show that the river as a transportation route takes up a more dominant role in the spread of architecture than the boundary of the ethnic culture. The cultural significance shows that the highland architecture in the upstream area has a more original and simpler character than the lowland architecture in the downstream area. The riverway exposes diverse cultures to blend into more complex architecture.

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Gil-Piqueras, Teresa, and Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro. "Tradition and Sustainability in Vernacular Architecture of Southeast Morocco." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (January 12, 2021): 684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020684.

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This article is presented after ten years of research on the earthen architecture of southeastern Morocco, more specifically that of the natural axis connecting the cities of Midelt and Er-Rachidia, located North and South of the Moroccan northern High Atlas. The typology studied is called ksar (ksour, pl.). Throughout various research projects, we have been able to explore this territory, documenting in field sheets the characteristics of a total of 30 ksour in the Outat valley, 20 in the mountain range and 53 in the Mdagra oasis. The objective of the present work is to analyze, through qualitative and quantitative data, the main characteristics of this vernacular architecture as a perfect example of an environmentally respectful habitat, obtaining concrete data on its traditional character and its sustainability. The methodology followed is based on case studies and, as a result, we have obtained a typological classification of the ksour of this region and their relationship with the territory, as well as the social, functional, defensive, productive, and building characteristics that define them. Knowing and puttin in value this vernacular heritage is the first step towards protecting it and to show our commitment to future generations.

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Laitupa, Jamilang. "STUDI KELAYAKAN PUSAT KULINER TERAPUNG TANJUNG MERPATI DI KABUPATEN BURU SELATAN, PROVINSI MALUKU." Jurnal Arsitektur dan Perencanaan (JUARA) 2, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): PRESS. http://dx.doi.org/10.31101/juara.v2i1.999.

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South Buru Regency, as a part of the Maluku Islands Province. This natural tourist attraction has the potential to be developed into a tourist destination so as to increase tourist visits and the contribution of the tourism sector in South Buru Regency. Needing for the feasibility study of the Tanjung Merpati Floating Culinary Center Design in South Buru Regency, Maluku which supported with Neo Vernacular Architecture method. It is to improve the economy of the local community and provide recreation for tourists such as fishing and other tourism. It is different from other culinary in South Buru Regency, because of Neo Vernacular analysis so that it gets a response to the design.

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Zuber Angkasa Wazir. "TIPOLOGI ATAP PADA ARSITEKTUR VERNAKULAR DI SUMATERA SELATAN." Jurnal Koridor 9, no. 1 (January 15, 2018): 161–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/koridor.v9i1.1329.

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The development of new urbanism paradigm in the world today, has been reminded of the importance of vernacular architecture in urban planning.. It would be advantageous for areas with high ethnic diversity as South Sumatra. This study aims to inventory the vernacular house typology in South Sumatra. Methods of study is to examine the vernacular houses of all ethnicities in South Sumatra (29 ethnicity) plus two ethnic from neighboring provinces (Kubu and Lambak). The study found 18 different types of houses, and also found that the typology of the roof consists of a limas roof, pelana roof, and a perisai roof. The variety of roof reflects the high ethnic mobilization in South Sumatra. Even so, as a result of acculturation that occurs in these dynamics, the variety is found only on the shape of the roof, while the other part of the building does not have a clear marker of difference. Implications of the New Urbanism presented in the design of contemporary urban planning in South Sumatra.

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Gushee, Elizabeth M. "Travels Through the Old South: Frances Benjamin Johnston and the Vernacular Architecture of Virginia." Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 27, no. 1 (April 2008): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/adx.27.1.27949479.

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Burley, David. "Creolization and late nineteenth century Métis vernacular log architecture on the South Saskatchewan River." Historical Archaeology 34, no. 3 (September 2000): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03373639.

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Waetjen, Thembisa. "The Politics of Narcotic Medicines in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." Social History of Medicine 32, no. 3 (February 26, 2018): 586–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky004.

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Summary Controls over trade and consumption of narcotic medicines emerged as both a concern and emblem of progressive governance around the turn of the twentieth century. This article traces political struggles over drugs regulation in the case of colonial South Africa. It focuses on two parallel streams of law-making by the British occupation regime in the Transvaal, following the Anglo-Boer war. Controversies over the availability of traditional ‘Dutch medicines’ to Boer farmers and prohibitions of certain patent medicines to African consumers were elements of, and contradictions within, the process of building a modern pharmaceutical economy. An influx to the region of new curatives coincided with the growth of vernacular newspapers as well as temperance campaigns. Working to nurture white national cohesion and support a mining industry premised on unskilled black labour, the South African state created race-based drugs controls. These developments proved significant to regulatory statecraft later in the century.

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Armstrong, Adrian John, and Martin H. Villet. "Checklist, endemism, English vernacular names and identification of the cicadas (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadidae) of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." African Invertebrates 60, no. 2 (August 19, 2019): 165–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.60.35130.

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Public understanding of the goals of applied biology and conservation is promoted by showcasing charismatic or significant organisms using vernacular names. Conservation activities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are prioritising taxa that have high rates of provincial endemism, such as snails, earthworms, millipedes and cicadas. To assist wider public engagement in these activities, an assessment of endemism of the cicadas of KwaZulu-Natal is presented along with a dichotomous, 37-couplet key for the identification of males, based mainly on externally visible morphology and colouration. Standardised English vernacular names coined following a simple naming convention are proposed. Forty-two percent (16 out of 38) of the cicada species known from KwaZulu-Natal are endemic to the province. Photographs of some of the species are included to facilitate their identification. Photographs can be used for identification of various species providing that the diagnostic characters are visible in the photographs. For this purpose, photographs may have to be taken of hand-held individuals. Some of the endemic species are of particular concern for conservation because they are not known to occur in statutory protected areas or are only known from relatively small protected areas. The latter may not be able to ensure the long-term survival of the species. The rate and extent of loss of habitat outside protected areas is likely to be a grave threat to species that are not protected or that are inadequately conserved in statutory protected areas. The standardised vernacular names proposed here provide a tool for communicating provincial conservation plans and concerns with stakeholders in KwaZulu-Natal and for stimulating interest in cicadas amongst land users, environmental impact assessment practitioners, biologists, naturalists and citizen scientists.

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Holm, Dieter. "The status of low energy architecture in South Africa." Renewable Energy 8, no. 1-4 (May 1996): 301–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0960-1481(96)88865-3.

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Yun, Jieheerah. "Remodelling of the Vernacular in Bukchon Hanoks." Open House International 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2012-b0005.

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Regenerated hanoks, Korean-style vernacular houses in Bukchon (North Village) of Seoul, have been celebrated as the successful examples of a hybrid dwelling integrating modern facilities in a traditional house form. While the modernization project during the postwar era encouraged South Koreans to live in high rise apartments, hanoks became one of the alternative residential options as urban forest of concrete high rises were perceived to be aesthetically unappealing as well as ecologically unsustainable. Hopes are high that remodeled hanoks can ameliorate not only dreary urban landscape but over-competitive and harsh everyday life conditions. While preservation guidelines for regenerated hanoks provide residents with a possible stylistic model, it becomes questionable whether they are viable solutions given the proliferation of structures which seemingly adhere to the guidelines without considering local urban context. By pointing out the difference between the preservation guideline and its real life manifestations, this paper illustrates how imagined aspect of the vernacular architecture takes precedence over the experiential aspect. In this process of selective appropriation, various vernacular housing types are flattened into a standardized representation of upper class dwellings. This article concludes that it is possible to bring diversity by encouraging flexible interpretations of vernacular architecture and incorporation of residents' memories in the design process.

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BOTHA, J., E. T. F. WITKOWSKI, and C. M. SHACKLETON. "Market profiles and trade in medicinal plants in the Lowveld, South Africa." Environmental Conservation 31, no. 1 (March 2004): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892904001067.

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Rising demand for medicinal plants has led to increased pressure on wild plant populations. This, combined with shrinking habitats, means that many species in South Africa are now facing local extinction. In 1997, a study was initiated to determine the extent of trade in medicinal plants in the South African Lowveld (the low lying plains to the east of the Drakensberg escarpment), and to investigate socio-economic factors influencing trade and resource management. Trade was not as extensive in the Lowveld as in major urban markets such as Durban or the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg and surrounding towns), either in terms of the quantity, number or range of species sold, or the numbers of people relying on the trade for an income. In markets assessed in Mpumalanga Province, 176 species were identified (71% of the vernacular names encountered in the market place), representing 69 plant families. In Limpopo, 70 different species were identified (84% of the vernacular names encountered in the market place), representing 40 families. Imports were significant in Mpumalanga (33% of the plants on offer), mainly from Mozambique. A detrended correspondence analysis showed substantial differences between species traded in Mpumalanga and those sold in Limpopo. There was little variation in the species stocked by vendors in Mpumalanga, regardless of the season, the attributes of the seller, or whether business was carried out in urban or rural areas. In contrast, there was considerable variation in the stock inventories of the Limpopo traders. Despite the lower levels of local trade, increased harvesting pressure is being experienced regionally, to meet demand in metropolitan centres such as the Witwatersrand. This study showed considerable local variation and complexities in the harvesting and marketing of medicinal plants, with both a national and an international dimension. This dual spatial scale presents both opportunities and challenges in the management of these plants, which need to be addressed simultaneously, particularly with respect to research requirements and development of predictive models and capacity. Cooperation in conservation strategies and policies is required at regional, national and international levels, while ensuring that management initiatives take into account local market conditions and the socio-economic realities facing both consumers and those who depend on the trade for their livelihoods.

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Zavyalova, Natalya, Evgenia Evgenevna Frolova, Vitaliy Vasilievich Bezbakh, Ekaterina Petrovna Rusakova, and Mihail Nikolaevich Dudin. "BRICS Message From South Africa." Revista Amazonia Investiga 9, no. 26 (February 21, 2020): 529–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2020.26.02.60.

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The paper features the data obtained from the analysis of a video strip with the help of ELAN 5.4, the free software developed by the experts from Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Language Archive, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The software enables to annotate video and audio strips, describing pauses, the duration of utterances, gestures, pronunciation and other linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The speaker in the video – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – delivers his official address to the leaders of the 10th BRICS leadership summit in Sandton, Johannesburg on July 26, 2018. BRICS is a powerful link of a global financial architecture. Its main targets are to mobilize resources for sustainable development projects of BRICS and to facilitate the global growth of multilateral and regional financial, educational and industrial institutions. The material and the speaker for the analysis belong to the domain of BRICS top level politics. South Africa was the main host of the leadership summit in 2018. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in his speech stressed the significance of the fourth industrial revolution highlighted by Professor Klaus Schawb at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016. The notion of the revolution appeared in the South African leader's address 7 times. Nevertheless, the authors of the paper see more messages hidden between the lines of the South African President's address. In the paper it is argued that BRICS architecture has a right to be interpreted as an attempt of keeping the world away from further plunging into environmental degradation, the development of critical thinking and innovation among BRICS citizens. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the method of pauses analysis to reveal a more complex mixture of speakers' visions. Long pauses are meaningful and extremely informative for discourse analysis. The data may be relevant for discourse analysis experts, political journalists, educators and copywriters.

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Sara, Guerrero, and Shin Won Kim. "The Role of Guadua Bamboo in South America -From Vernacular Architecture to Sustainable Building Material-." JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY DESIGN CULTURE 26, no. 4 (December 31, 2020): 265–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.18208/ksdc.2020.26.4.265.

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Visser, Gustav, and Dene Kisting. "Studentification in Stellenbosch, South Africa." Urbani izziv Supplement, no. 30 (February 17, 2019): 158–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2019-30-supplement-011.

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Globally, studentification has emerged as a prominent urban process, fast becoming entrenched in geographical discourse. Since the early 1990s, in both developed and developing world countries, an expansion in student enrolment has outstripped the ability of higher education institutions to provide adequate accommodation. These trends have been noted in South Africa too. The extent and impact of studentification on the urban geography of those places in which it has taken root is still poorly understood in both South Africa and the global South at large. This paper investigates studentification as experienced in one of South Africa’s secondary cities – Stellenbosch. An overview of generic studentification impacts is provided and the development of this process tracked. Thereafter, the motivation for living in these developments and the impacts of this process comes into view. It is argued that the areas affected by studentification have fundamentally changed in their physical and social character. Interestingly, a range of findings in the academic record were not present in the Stellenbosch context. Finally, it is suggested that studentification in South Africa requires greater research attention in a range of other urban settings in which this process has emerged. This is particularly urgent as it would appear that studentification can radically and very rapidly transform the geography of the areas in which it takes hold.

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Sami, Neha. "African perspectives – [South] Africa. City, society, space, literature and architecture." Social Dynamics 39, no. 2 (June 2013): 391–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2013.796128.

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Sonaiya, Olusola A., and Ozgur Dincyurek. "Tradition and Modernism in Yoruba Architecture: Bridging the Chasm." Open House International 34, no. 4 (December 1, 2009): 74–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2009-b0008.

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Vernacular and modern architecture have mostly been seen as antitheses, impossible to reconcile, especially in Africa. They appear to belong to different ages, utilize different materials and methods, and encourage or support different lifestyles. This paper aims at seeking points where a merging of principles may be attempted between the two positions. The study is based on a survey on the traditional architecture of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The decline in popular use of this building tradition and its rejection by design practitioners raises some physical and psychological issues which are examined in this paper. These include: spatial layout, use and quality, ecology and economy, concepts, meaning and perception. The fate of Yoruba traditional built culture depends on a conscious attempt to reconcile it with people's contemporary needs, lifestyles and world views. Therefore, a brief introduction on the importance of Yoruba architecture and its preservation will be followed by a general definition of its features and characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. Finally, the problems posed by the architecture's modern trends in Yoruba land will be examined. It is hoped that such works may assist in the development of a truly responsive and sustainable architecture for the Yoruba people. The proposed solutions may be applied in other parts of Africa, or in regions with similar cultural or geographical concerns.

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Mahdavinejad, Mohammadjavad, Abdolkarim Ghaedi, Mohammadhossein Ghasempourabadi, and Hojat Ghaedi. "The Role of Vernacular Architecture in Design of Green Sidewalk (Case Study: Iran, Shushtar)." Applied Mechanics and Materials 260-261 (December 2012): 65–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.260-261.65.

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The vernacular architecture around the world, have considered many methods for creating better living conditions and welfare measures. Although it was difficult to work in harmony with cruel nature but wherever there is possibility of its use, the vernacular architecture takes advantage of nature. In Iran’s sustainable architecture there are much evidence of Persian architect’s genius and creativity in using nature to their advantage as: Wind catcher in hot and dry areas, Water storage scattered in many parts of Iran, The Yakhchal in depths of land for conservation and preservation of ice and their use in summer. Among them “Kat”, which is specialized in Dezfol and Shushtar of south-west of Iran, was made with certain conditions. In this paper, we studied on how to use “Kat” functional features in modern use in designing green Sidewalk. Based on these functions, a model for Sidewalk was created which will have a thermotical effect in Sidewalk. This model will keep the temperature over Sidewalk 4-5 degree less than other routes in summer.

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Oranratmanee, Rawiwan. "VERNACULAR HOUSES OF THE SHAN IN MYANMAR IN THE SOUTH-EAST ASIAN CONTEXT." Vernacular Architecture 49, no. 1 (January 2018): 99–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2018.1524217.

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Mirahmadi, Fatima, and Hasim Altan. "A solution for future designs using techniques from vernacular architecture in southern Iran." Sustainable Buildings 3 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/sbuild/2017007.

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Nowadays in modern life, every technology and technique for comfortable life is available. People with low income, in other words, with low levels of economic power, can also have those facilities to stay warm in winter and stay cool in summer. Many years back when there were no advanced systems for human needs, passive strategies played a big role in peoples' lives. This paper concentrates on a small city in Iran that had used special strategies to solve peoples' environmental issues. The city is called Evaz, which is located in the Fars region of Iran with distance around 20 km from Gerash city and 370 km from south east of Shiraz. Evaz receives minimum rainfall, which is the reason why water is limited in this area and therefore, cisterns (water storage) had been used for many years that is studied in more detail in this paper. In summers, the climate is hot and dry, sometimes the external temperatures reaching around 46 °C during the day. Although the winters are typically cold and likewise dry, moderate climate is available in Evaz during autumn and spring. This study identifies some of the past strategies and describes them in detail with analysis for transformation and connections with the modern and traditional fundamentals. Furthermore, the study develops some solutions utilizing a combination of both modern and traditional techniques in design to suggest better and more effective ways to save energy, and at the same time to remain sustainable for the future.

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Low, Iain. "House/Home: Dwelling in the New South Africa." Architectural Design 75, no. 5 (September 2005): 38–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.134.

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Galli, Jacopo. "A cosmopolitan manual in decolonizing Africa: Fry&Drew's tropical architecture in the dry and humid zones." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 8, no. 2 (2016): 193–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1602193g.

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Edwin Maxwell FRY and Jane Drew are best known for their role in the construction of Chandigarh alongside Le Corbusier, however, their Indian experience was proceeded by a long career in West Africa that began during WWII and lasted until the end of the 50's. Fry&Drew were active in Ghana and Nigeria constructing an impressive amount of buildings: schools, universities, houses, villages, office buildings and museums. Their on-site experience was conceptualized in the book Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones published in its final version in 1964. This paper aims to analyze the manual as an attempt to establish a cosmopolitan and modern design system specific for the tropical areas. An experimental and scientific approach that saw in climatic data a tool in the creation of a new rootedness of modern architecture not based on cultural analysis or vernacular reinterpretation but on the complex analysis of local conditions in order to provide inhabitants with suitable design solutions. Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones as a manifesto of a regionalist modernism, two apparently opposite terms that find a reconciliation in a design system that seeks to build a new cosmopolitan modernity.

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Karam, Aly H. "Marketing and architects in South Africa." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 10, no. 6 (December 2003): 402–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09699980310509372.

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Lawal, I. O., D. S. Grierson, and A. J. Afolayan. "Phytotherapeutic Information on Plants Used for the Treatment of Tuberculosis in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa." Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014 (2014): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/735423.

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The current rate of deforestation in Africa constitutes a serious danger to the future of medicinal plants on this continent. Conservation of these medicinal plants in the field and the scientific documentation of our knowledge about them are therefore crucial. An ethnobotanical survey of plants used for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) was carried out in selected areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. These areas were Hala, Ncera, Sheshegu, and Gquamashe, all within the Nkonkobe Municipality. One hundred informants were interviewed. The survey included the identification of scientific and vernacular names of the plants used for treatment of TB as well as the methods of preparation and administration, the part used, dosage, and duration of treatment. The survey revealed 30 plants belonging to 21 families which are commonly used by traditional healers for the treatment of TB and associated diseases. Of these plantsClausena anisata, Haemanthus albiflos,andArtemisia afrawere the most cited. The leaves were the most common part used in the medicinal preparations. Our findings are discussed in relation to the importance of the documentation of medicinal plants.

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Thomas, Hannah G., Daniel Swanepoel, and Nigel C. Bennett. "Burrow architecture of the Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) from South Africa." African Zoology 51, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2015.1128355.

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Demissie, Fassil. "Controlling and ‘Civilising Natives’ through architecture and town planning in South Africa." Social Identities 10, no. 4 (July 2004): 483–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350463042000258926.

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Hermanson, Judith. "Equalising Housing Opportunities in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Open House International 30, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2005-b0014.

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Faced with a dearth of affordable housing opportunities, even after the end of Apartheid, residents from Motherwell, South Africa, turned to CHF International for help. CHF provided residents with the technical assistance, organisational support and bridging finance they needed to build their own high-quality homes, through a method that allowed the use of relatively unskilled labour. After helping residents form the Sakhezethu NgoManyano Housing Association and establishing the Assisted Self-Help Model, community members built a total of 395 safe and affordable houses to which they have full title. This model has been transferred throughout South Africa, with thousands of houses built using the concepts for the development of housing and community that it established.

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Probyn, Margie. "‘Smuggling the vernacular into the classroom’: conflicts and tensions in classroom codeswitching in township/rural schools in South Africa." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12, no. 2 (March 2009): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050802153137.

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Osman, Amira, and Catherine Lemmer. "Open Building Principles: An Academic Exploration in Soshanguve, South Africa." Open House International 30, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 71–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2005-b0010.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria is working in the South African housing context while gaining knowledge of such issues worldwide. Various innovations are being carried out in terms of housing design and delivery methods in South Africa. Through a methodical approach to design, it is believed that future architects will be able to answer to contextual needs without compromising the high standard of design expected by the Department. This paper evaluates an exercise in open building principles, carried out in 2003, with post−graduate architecture and interior architecture students at the University. The focus was the application of open building principles from the urban design level to that of the building and the residential units. It involved the design of social housing and the upgrading of existing workers’ hostels into family units as well as the provision of social amenities. Students were to design various types of housing, showing alternative ways of ‘living’ and study housing in the area. The project involved close interaction with community representatives. The area of study was located in Soshanguve, a township with predominantly black inhabitants, situated to the northwest of Pretoria. The previous political dispensation designated specific areas on the outskirts of the city as locations for black migrant workers, known as townships. Subsequently these townships have become cities in themselves, housing a large portion of the total population of Pretoria. It is here that there is a need for urban development and social housing. Soshanguve offered an excellent opportunity for learning and the dissemination of good design principles in housing design. A debate on the relevance of open building to South Africa has been initiated. It is concluded that open building systems are an effective tool to achieve diversity and can accommodate for wider sectors of the population.

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Bremner, G. Alex. "The Architecture of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa: Developing a Vernacular Tradition in the Anglican Mission Field, 1861––1909." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68, no. 4 (December 1, 2009): 514–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2009.68.4.514.

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Oranratmanee, Rawiwan. "Cultural geography of vernacular architecture in a cross-cultural context: houses of the Dai ethnic minority in South China." Journal of Cultural Geography 37, no. 1 (August 27, 2019): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2019.1658441.

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Ghosh, S., A. Goenka, M. Deo, and D. Mandal. "Vernacular architecture as an idiom for promoting cultural continuity in South Asia with a special reference to Buddhist monasteries." AI & SOCIETY 34, no. 3 (August 5, 2017): 573–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0754-z.

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Costa, Miguel Reimao, and Ana Costa Rosado. "Vernacular architecture in the south of Portugal: The history of Mértola’s houses from a rural to an urban landscape." A/Z : ITU journal of Faculty of Architecture 18, no. 2 (2021): 413–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/itujfa.2021.21703.

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Dainese, Elisa. "Histories of Exchange." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 443–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.4.443.

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During World War II, interest in indigenous South African architecture deepened, leading to studies that challenged modernism and influenced architectural design. Histories of Exchange: Indigenous South Africa in the South African Architectural Record and the Architectural Review remaps the tension between modern and indigenous cultures during the 1940s and 1950s, examining the diaspora of ideas between South Africa and Britain and revealing a new genealogy of postwar architecture. Elisa Dainese addresses indigenous South African architecture as it was seen in the postwar years from the perspectives of two architectural magazines. In doing so, she provides a new theoretical framework that probes the role of architectural journals, considering them as alternative spaces where contact took place among European and African cultures.

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Tomaszek, Tomasz. "The Role of the Kolbuszowa Folk Culture Open-Air Museum in Studies of Traditional Wooden Architecture of the Rzeszowiacy Ethnographic Group." Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo 9, no. 3 (2021): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.46284/mkd.2021.9.3.3.

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Province, which is located in the south-eastern corner of Poland. At the beginning of the 1970s, as the result of an initiative drawing attention to the need for documentation of the rapidly disappearing traditional Rzeszowiacy vernacular wooden architecture (and that of the neighboring ethnographic group, the Lasowiacy), the Folk Culture Open-Air Museum in Kolbuszowa was created. This paper presents a short overview of the open-air museum’s establishment and describes in detail its role in the study and protection of the wooden architectural heritage of the Rzeszowiacy ethnographic group, based on the museum’s research, carried out over fifty years, and its collection of buildings.

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Sahney, Puja. "Producing Sacred Space in Secular Kitchens: South Asian Immigrant Women’s Hindu Shrines in American Domestic Architecture." Special Issue - Storied Spaces: Renewing Folkloristic Perspectives on Vernacular Architecture 90-91 (April 29, 2021): 24–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1076796ar.

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This paper demonstrates the processes of spatial production achieved through the setup of a home shrine by newly arrived Hindu immigrant women inside American houses, particularly the kitchens. By focusing on the home shrine, the paper uses a gendered lens through which to understand vernacular architecture, since women often garner greater control over domestic objects and interiors than they do over construction of buildings. I propose that production of sacred space, achieved through domestic objects like home shrines, is a fluid process. Its location in the house can be more easily changed from one place to another. Compared to the permanent construction of buildings, this compliancy of form may appear less concrete for providing objective architectural analysis. However, I suggest that it is the opposite. The flexibility involved in women’s production process makes room for greater spatial negotiation and demonstrates the diversity of ways concrete domestic architecture is maneuvered to satisfy women’s religious needs over time. Further, the paper demonstrates the wide array of complex decisions that women have to make regarding body movements in the house and worship practices, achieved through material intervention, that speak of domestic architecture in less static and more dynamic ways. By tracing women’s experiences with domestic architecture as new arrivals in the country, and later, as permanent residents, the paper foregrounds women’s strong architectural contributions through the use of domestic objects that enable a gendered and consequently a more inclusive approach to the study of architectural space.

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Salama, Ashraf M., and David Grierson. "Editorial: An Expedition into Architecture and Urbanism of the Global South." Open House International 41, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 4–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2016-b0001.

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The nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia are collectively known as the Global South, which includes practically 157 of a total of 184 recognized states in the world according to United Nations reports. Metaphorically, it can be argued that most of the efforts in architectural production, city planning, place making, place management, and urban development are taking place in the Global South and will continue to be so over the next several decades.

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