Dance of the Abakhwetha (1): Eluhewini, 1959
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12011 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000788 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12011 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000788 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Visitor at the dance of the Abakhwetha (1): Bokleni, 1959
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12040 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000817 , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12040 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000817 , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Xhosa hut
- Authors: Photographer unknown
- Subjects: Eastern Cape, South Africa Eastern Cape, South Africa , Vernacular architecture -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Building materials -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Type: Image
- Identifier: vital:13958 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019956 , Donated by Martin Plaut, 2015
- Description: View of a thatched hut, showing clearly the wattle and daub construction. Two men in western dress are shown with ten seated women, all in traditional headscarves and blankets. The card mount has an inscription in the upper right corner: 'South Africa. 30'.
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Photographer unknown
- Subjects: Eastern Cape, South Africa Eastern Cape, South Africa , Vernacular architecture -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Building materials -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Type: Image
- Identifier: vital:13958 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019956 , Donated by Martin Plaut, 2015
- Description: View of a thatched hut, showing clearly the wattle and daub construction. Two men in western dress are shown with ten seated women, all in traditional headscarves and blankets. The card mount has an inscription in the upper right corner: 'South Africa. 30'.
- Full Text: false
Collecting imifino : c.1950
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12174 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000951 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12174 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000951 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mental health care practitioners' perceptions of mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context
- Authors: Lombo, Nocawa Philomina
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: Mental illness -- South Africa , Mental health personnel , Psychiatric nursing , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:9997 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1179 , Mental illness -- South Africa , Mental health personnel , Psychiatric nursing , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description: This study sought to explore the perceptions of mental health care practitioners’ perceptions on mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context. A qualitative exploratory descriptive and contextual design was used for the study. A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select eight participants from Komani Hospital in Queenstown. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The services of an Independent Interviewer were used to avoid any bias as interviews took place where the researcher is employed. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and the data collected was analyzed according to Tesch’s eight steps of data analysis as described in Cresswell (1994:155). The researcher utilized services of an Independent Coder who verified the identified major themes. Four major themes emerged from the analysis of the interview: Mental health care practitioner’s perceptions of mental illness, perception of the causes of mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context, mental health care practitioners’ views in the management and treatment of mental illness and suggestions put forward to improve the services to mental health care users. The major findings of this study were the lack of knowledge of culture of mental health care users. It is recommended that it would be proper if there could be co-operation between mental health care practitioners and traditional healers by working together as a team.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
Mental health care practitioners' perceptions of mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context
- Authors: Lombo, Nocawa Philomina
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: Mental illness -- South Africa , Mental health personnel , Psychiatric nursing , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:9997 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1179 , Mental illness -- South Africa , Mental health personnel , Psychiatric nursing , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description: This study sought to explore the perceptions of mental health care practitioners’ perceptions on mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context. A qualitative exploratory descriptive and contextual design was used for the study. A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select eight participants from Komani Hospital in Queenstown. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The services of an Independent Interviewer were used to avoid any bias as interviews took place where the researcher is employed. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and the data collected was analyzed according to Tesch’s eight steps of data analysis as described in Cresswell (1994:155). The researcher utilized services of an Independent Coder who verified the identified major themes. Four major themes emerged from the analysis of the interview: Mental health care practitioner’s perceptions of mental illness, perception of the causes of mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context, mental health care practitioners’ views in the management and treatment of mental illness and suggestions put forward to improve the services to mental health care users. The major findings of this study were the lack of knowledge of culture of mental health care users. It is recommended that it would be proper if there could be co-operation between mental health care practitioners and traditional healers by working together as a team.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
Amagqira at Qutubeni: Qutubeni, n.d
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: n.d
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12109 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000886 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: n.d
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: n.d
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12109 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000886 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: n.d
Portrait of a man (2) : Esidadeni, All Saints, 1954
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12022 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000799 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12022 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000799 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954
Responses to Western education among the conservative people of Transkei
- Authors: Deliwe, Dumisani
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Attitudes , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Black people -- Education -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Education -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002662 , Xhosa (African people) -- Attitudes , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Black people -- Education -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Education -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Description: This thesis is concerned with the impact of Western education on the social life of the members of a Transkeian village. Various authors in the locally relevant literature, have for a long time commented that, due to Western education and Christianity, African societies became divided into 'school'people, who readily accepted Western education and culture, and 'red' people, who initially resisted these. Whilst the terms 'red' and 'school' became used as analytical constructs for the differing responses to Western culture, they were also used by African people. My findings at Qhude, Transkei, confirmed such a social division. I argue that this social division does not present an absolute distinction, but may best be conceived in terms of a continuum. Whilst the thesis considers interaction between the 'school' and the 'red' people of Qhude in various fields of life such as politics, law, religion (see Chapter Two) and education (see Chapter Six), the main emphasis is on the 'red' people. Thus, the thesis concerns itself, to a large degree, with an analysis of the 'red' people's experience and interpretation of Western education and Western educated people. The main argument is that the 'red' people's perception of Western education and Western educated people is ambiguous. That is, they see them in both positive and negative terms (see Chapter Five). This ambiguity is looked at here as a manifestation of the difficulties encountered by the 'red' people in adjusting to an institution (i.e Western education)that was initially foreign, and to which they were initially opposed. The perception of Western education as positive follows from the fact that it is seen as leading to economic empowerement by the 'red' people of Qhude, who are facing poverty, due to an economic decline (see Chapter Three). However, the economic contribution of the young (who are the ones receiving western education) and the knowledge they gather from school, threaten the authority of elders, as the young become increasingly independent from the elders. As a result of such independence, and other factors, Western education is seen in negative terms by the 'red' people. Such potential dangers of Western education are well recognised by the 'reds' of Qhude, and are dealt with culturally. That is, it is made clear to the young, in particular during occasions such as circumcision rituals, that education has to be made relevant to the building of the homestead, which is under the overlordship of parents whom the young are called upon to respect (see Chapter Six). In conclusion, it is argued that the use of culture in this way, shows how 'tradition' is employed to deal with crisis. Such use of culture necessitates a clarification of the opinion that uneducated Africans rejected Western education (see Chapter Seven).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1993
- Authors: Deliwe, Dumisani
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Attitudes , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Black people -- Education -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Education -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002662 , Xhosa (African people) -- Attitudes , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Black people -- Education -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Education -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Description: This thesis is concerned with the impact of Western education on the social life of the members of a Transkeian village. Various authors in the locally relevant literature, have for a long time commented that, due to Western education and Christianity, African societies became divided into 'school'people, who readily accepted Western education and culture, and 'red' people, who initially resisted these. Whilst the terms 'red' and 'school' became used as analytical constructs for the differing responses to Western culture, they were also used by African people. My findings at Qhude, Transkei, confirmed such a social division. I argue that this social division does not present an absolute distinction, but may best be conceived in terms of a continuum. Whilst the thesis considers interaction between the 'school' and the 'red' people of Qhude in various fields of life such as politics, law, religion (see Chapter Two) and education (see Chapter Six), the main emphasis is on the 'red' people. Thus, the thesis concerns itself, to a large degree, with an analysis of the 'red' people's experience and interpretation of Western education and Western educated people. The main argument is that the 'red' people's perception of Western education and Western educated people is ambiguous. That is, they see them in both positive and negative terms (see Chapter Five). This ambiguity is looked at here as a manifestation of the difficulties encountered by the 'red' people in adjusting to an institution (i.e Western education)that was initially foreign, and to which they were initially opposed. The perception of Western education as positive follows from the fact that it is seen as leading to economic empowerement by the 'red' people of Qhude, who are facing poverty, due to an economic decline (see Chapter Three). However, the economic contribution of the young (who are the ones receiving western education) and the knowledge they gather from school, threaten the authority of elders, as the young become increasingly independent from the elders. As a result of such independence, and other factors, Western education is seen in negative terms by the 'red' people. Such potential dangers of Western education are well recognised by the 'reds' of Qhude, and are dealt with culturally. That is, it is made clear to the young, in particular during occasions such as circumcision rituals, that education has to be made relevant to the building of the homestead, which is under the overlordship of parents whom the young are called upon to respect (see Chapter Six). In conclusion, it is argued that the use of culture in this way, shows how 'tradition' is employed to deal with crisis. Such use of culture necessitates a clarification of the opinion that uneducated Africans rejected Western education (see Chapter Seven).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1993
Beads, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12153 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000930 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12153 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000930 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Service of Confirmation : All Saints, 1970
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12042 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000819 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1970
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12042 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000819 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1970
Xhosa beer drinks and their oratory
- Authors: McAllister, Patrick A
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Beer -- Social aspects -- South Africa , Drinking customs -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012863
- Description: 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1987
- Authors: McAllister, Patrick A
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Beer -- Social aspects -- South Africa , Drinking customs -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012863
- Description: 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1987
A socio-political analysis of the adoption of certain AmaXhosa surnames
- Authors: Johnson, Stembele
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Names, Personal -- Xhosa , Names, Personal -- Xhosa -- Political aspects , Names, Personal -- Xhosa -- Sociological aspects , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Onomastics -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164298 , vital:41107
- Description: It is always assumed when you have a white surname that you have a white lineage or your forefathers were white, and that was always my struggle in school to explain the meaning of my surname and where it came from. Not only European surnames used by amaXhosa are difficult to explain but also many isiXhosa surnames are very hard to break down and explain. This is because many word from th e isiXhosa language, that are used in surnames are no longer used and if one does not know the history of certain names then it would be difficult to know the meaning of a surname or misinterpret its meaning to the modern words of isiXhosa that we know. S urnames are not of African origin, they came from the West, but because of colonialism surnames were enforced on African people. Most of the surnames they used, are said to be names of their forefathers (ancestors), and there is a small amount or none that links to femininity in these surnames. Surnames are part of naming and naming is part of onomastics. Naming is a very important tool used among various African cultures to convey certain messages, either to an individual, family members or a community. On omastics is multidisciplinary in nature. It can be approached from different perspectives. These include linguistic, historical, sociological, philosophical, economical and other perspectives. This research looks at the depth of certain amaXhosa surnames and even their links to other names like, nicknames and clan names etc.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Johnson, Stembele
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Names, Personal -- Xhosa , Names, Personal -- Xhosa -- Political aspects , Names, Personal -- Xhosa -- Sociological aspects , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Onomastics -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164298 , vital:41107
- Description: It is always assumed when you have a white surname that you have a white lineage or your forefathers were white, and that was always my struggle in school to explain the meaning of my surname and where it came from. Not only European surnames used by amaXhosa are difficult to explain but also many isiXhosa surnames are very hard to break down and explain. This is because many word from th e isiXhosa language, that are used in surnames are no longer used and if one does not know the history of certain names then it would be difficult to know the meaning of a surname or misinterpret its meaning to the modern words of isiXhosa that we know. S urnames are not of African origin, they came from the West, but because of colonialism surnames were enforced on African people. Most of the surnames they used, are said to be names of their forefathers (ancestors), and there is a small amount or none that links to femininity in these surnames. Surnames are part of naming and naming is part of onomastics. Naming is a very important tool used among various African cultures to convey certain messages, either to an individual, family members or a community. On omastics is multidisciplinary in nature. It can be approached from different perspectives. These include linguistic, historical, sociological, philosophical, economical and other perspectives. This research looks at the depth of certain amaXhosa surnames and even their links to other names like, nicknames and clan names etc.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
Preparing melon for the cooking pot, 1954
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12034 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000811 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12034 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000811 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954
Amagqira at Nohemiple's place: All Saints
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12114 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000891 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12114 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000891 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cattle against the Drakensberg foothills, 1973
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1973
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12038 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000815 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1973
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1973
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12038 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000815 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1973
Gleaning the harvest, 1971
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1971
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12027 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000804 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1971
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1971
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12027 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000804 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1971
Fetching water: 1954
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12152 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000929 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12152 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000929 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954
“She is my sister although she’s got factory faults”: a psychosocial study of Xhosa women’s sister-sister relationships
- Authors: Moifo, Hunadi Senkoane
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Sisters -- South Africa -- Case studies , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Women, Black -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Psychology , Women, Black -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4443 , vital:20671
- Description: The current study examines the constructions that Black, Xhosa women from the working class and in middle adulthood draw on to make meaning of their sister-sister relationships. In addition to this, it aims to uncover their motivations for investing in these meanings. It makes use of a psychosocial theoretical framework that draws on discursive psychology and psychoanalysis. Discursive psychology is used to analyse the constructions the participants used to make meaning of their relationship, while psychoanalysis is used to interpret their investments in these constructions. Six participants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The findings emphasise the psychosocial nature of the participants’ sisterly relationships, as caught between ‘inner’ world of feelings and emotions and the ‘outer’ world of social practices and expectations. Their narratives pointed to the obligatory nature of the sister-sister relationship, which drives participants to downplay the hatred or dislike that is present in their relationship and to emphasise traditional scripts of helping each other, promoting solidarity amongst sisters and other women. The analysis highlights the ways in which the participants negotiate and express their gender roles through sistering, reinforcing and challenging the traditional view of femininity and as a result providing for multiple femininities. In addition to these, the findings show that women may choose specific narratives to construct their sister-sister relationships as they allow them to feel safe and in control of their lives. Using psychoanalysis alongside discursive psychology enables the findings to illustrate how the participants invest in different constructions of their relationship in ways that are influenced by their values and life histories.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Moifo, Hunadi Senkoane
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Sisters -- South Africa -- Case studies , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Women, Black -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Psychology , Women, Black -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4443 , vital:20671
- Description: The current study examines the constructions that Black, Xhosa women from the working class and in middle adulthood draw on to make meaning of their sister-sister relationships. In addition to this, it aims to uncover their motivations for investing in these meanings. It makes use of a psychosocial theoretical framework that draws on discursive psychology and psychoanalysis. Discursive psychology is used to analyse the constructions the participants used to make meaning of their relationship, while psychoanalysis is used to interpret their investments in these constructions. Six participants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The findings emphasise the psychosocial nature of the participants’ sisterly relationships, as caught between ‘inner’ world of feelings and emotions and the ‘outer’ world of social practices and expectations. Their narratives pointed to the obligatory nature of the sister-sister relationship, which drives participants to downplay the hatred or dislike that is present in their relationship and to emphasise traditional scripts of helping each other, promoting solidarity amongst sisters and other women. The analysis highlights the ways in which the participants negotiate and express their gender roles through sistering, reinforcing and challenging the traditional view of femininity and as a result providing for multiple femininities. In addition to these, the findings show that women may choose specific narratives to construct their sister-sister relationships as they allow them to feel safe and in control of their lives. Using psychoanalysis alongside discursive psychology enables the findings to illustrate how the participants invest in different constructions of their relationship in ways that are influenced by their values and life histories.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Report of research on self-organisation by youth among the Xhosa-speaking peoples of the Ciskei and Transkei: Part one: the Red Xhosa
- Authors: Mayer, Philip
- Date: 1972
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Youth , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Ciskei , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Transkei , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Youth -- South Africa -- Conduct of life , Ethnology -- South Africa
- Language: English , Xhosa
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:552 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020588
- Description: This report presents the results of intensive fieldwork which I have undertaken in the Ciskei and Transkei since 1961, with the generous support and co-operation of the Human Sciences Research Council (formerly National Council for Social Research), in conjunction with the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. The report has been divided into Part I, on the Red Xhosa, and Part II, on 'non-Red' and non-Xhosa peoples of the same region. The fieldwork was undertaken mainly during my academic vacation I spent many months altogether living in a caravan in the rural locations of Tshabo, Khalana, Shixini and Mabaleni, observing Red Xhosa youth activities at first hand. Later, the fieldwork for Part II was carried on largely by my assistants (who by then were well experienced), under my close supervision.
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- Date Issued: 1972
- Authors: Mayer, Philip
- Date: 1972
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Youth , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Ciskei , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Transkei , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Youth -- South Africa -- Conduct of life , Ethnology -- South Africa
- Language: English , Xhosa
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:552 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020588
- Description: This report presents the results of intensive fieldwork which I have undertaken in the Ciskei and Transkei since 1961, with the generous support and co-operation of the Human Sciences Research Council (formerly National Council for Social Research), in conjunction with the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. The report has been divided into Part I, on the Red Xhosa, and Part II, on 'non-Red' and non-Xhosa peoples of the same region. The fieldwork was undertaken mainly during my academic vacation I spent many months altogether living in a caravan in the rural locations of Tshabo, Khalana, Shixini and Mabaleni, observing Red Xhosa youth activities at first hand. Later, the fieldwork for Part II was carried on largely by my assistants (who by then were well experienced), under my close supervision.
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- Date Issued: 1972
Dignitaries at the dedication by Bishop Sobukwe of the new church
- Cornwell, Paul Ingle, 1915-1991
- Authors: Cornwell, Paul Ingle, 1915-1991
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12186 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1012609 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description: (L to R) Bishop Ernest Sobukwe, Fr Sidwell Mhlauli, Fr Hannington Gcanga, Fr Benjamin Gqabu, Mr Bright Titus, Fr Alfred Beresford, Mr Jordaan (Magistrate, Engcobo). Dignitaries at the dedication by Bishop Sobukwe of the new church
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- Date Issued: 1956
- Authors: Cornwell, Paul Ingle, 1915-1991
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12186 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1012609 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description: (L to R) Bishop Ernest Sobukwe, Fr Sidwell Mhlauli, Fr Hannington Gcanga, Fr Benjamin Gqabu, Mr Bright Titus, Fr Alfred Beresford, Mr Jordaan (Magistrate, Engcobo). Dignitaries at the dedication by Bishop Sobukwe of the new church
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956