Clydesdale Mission, Umzimkulu, 1950
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12061 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000838 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , 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 , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12061 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000838 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Portrait of a man in front of a cattle kraal : Esidadeni. All Saints, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12032 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000809 , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , 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: Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12032 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000809 , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Watching mothers : All Saints Hospital, 1964
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12025 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000802 , 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: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12025 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000802 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Woman with headdress (1): Nkondlo, 1957
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12005 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000782 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12005 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000782 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Burning of the abakwetha's initiation hut: Khanyi, 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:12018 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000795 , 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:12018 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000795 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1970
Abakhwetha rest from the dance: Eluhewini, 1959
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Circumcision -- South Africa , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:11987 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000764 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Circumcision -- South Africa , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Circumcision -- South Africa , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:11987 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000764 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Circumcision -- South Africa , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mother's Union gathering: Umzimkulu, 1952
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12029 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000806 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12029 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000806 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Authority, avoidances and marriage: an analysis of the position of Gcaleka women in Qwaninga, Willowvale District, Transkei
- Authors: Liebenberg, Alida
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Women -- Developing countries
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2100 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002663 , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Women -- Developing countries
- Description: Authority as it operates in the daily lives of married women in Gcaleka society is reinforced and maintained by a body of avoidances which women need to observe during their married lives. Avoidances constitute part of the control system in the society whereby wives are being 'kept in their place'. Avoidances do not only restrict her, but also safeguard her position and her interests. Lines of authority emerge through the process of interaction; the structure reveals itself as avoidances are acted out in time and space. This study was conducted in Qwaninga, an administrative area in the coastal area of the Willowvale district, Transkei. The research started out as a study of ritual impurity and the status of women in a traditional, 'red' Gcaleka society. It soon became clear that pollution practices and beliefs associated with women form part of a greater body of avoidances which women need to observe during their married lives. Avoidances entail economic, dietary, sexual, linguistic and spatial prohibitions; as well as restrictions concerning what a woman is supposed to wear, and her withdrawal from social life. These restrictions are enforced through certain ritual and other sanctions. Three forms of avoidances are identified in this study, and are discussed and analysed. Avoidances are found in the everyday male/female division in society; in the ways through which the wife shows respect towards her husband and her in-laws (especially her husband's ancestors); and in the reproductive situations a woman finds herself in from time to time. In many anthropological studies in the past women have often been hidden in the background. This study is an attempt to give women the prominence they should be given, to show that nonwestern women are not as subordinated as people in Western society like to assume. In Gcaleka society the authority structure affecting the position of women is not only based on a distinction being made between males and females. It will be shown that a finer authority structure operates in this society whereby gender as well as age and kinship distinctions are being made. These distinctions constitute a system of classification which is safeguarded and protected by the avoidances and other restrictions imposed on women.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1994
- Authors: Liebenberg, Alida
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Women -- Developing countries
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2100 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002663 , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Women -- Developing countries
- Description: Authority as it operates in the daily lives of married women in Gcaleka society is reinforced and maintained by a body of avoidances which women need to observe during their married lives. Avoidances constitute part of the control system in the society whereby wives are being 'kept in their place'. Avoidances do not only restrict her, but also safeguard her position and her interests. Lines of authority emerge through the process of interaction; the structure reveals itself as avoidances are acted out in time and space. This study was conducted in Qwaninga, an administrative area in the coastal area of the Willowvale district, Transkei. The research started out as a study of ritual impurity and the status of women in a traditional, 'red' Gcaleka society. It soon became clear that pollution practices and beliefs associated with women form part of a greater body of avoidances which women need to observe during their married lives. Avoidances entail economic, dietary, sexual, linguistic and spatial prohibitions; as well as restrictions concerning what a woman is supposed to wear, and her withdrawal from social life. These restrictions are enforced through certain ritual and other sanctions. Three forms of avoidances are identified in this study, and are discussed and analysed. Avoidances are found in the everyday male/female division in society; in the ways through which the wife shows respect towards her husband and her in-laws (especially her husband's ancestors); and in the reproductive situations a woman finds herself in from time to time. In many anthropological studies in the past women have often been hidden in the background. This study is an attempt to give women the prominence they should be given, to show that nonwestern women are not as subordinated as people in Western society like to assume. In Gcaleka society the authority structure affecting the position of women is not only based on a distinction being made between males and females. It will be shown that a finer authority structure operates in this society whereby gender as well as age and kinship distinctions are being made. These distinctions constitute a system of classification which is safeguarded and protected by the avoidances and other restrictions imposed on women.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1994
Praise singer
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1962
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12036 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000813 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1962
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12036 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000813 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962
Female initiate in seclusion hut : Mbekeni, 1970
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12016 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000793 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , 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: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12016 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000793 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1970
Gathering of older women : Nkondlo, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12000 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000777 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , 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 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12000 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000777 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
All Saints Day, 1964
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Religious life , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12056 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000833 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Religious life , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1964
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Religious life , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12056 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000833 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Religious life , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1964
Teenage boys, 1975
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1975
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12017 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000794 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1975
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1975
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12017 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000794 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1975
Fetching water
- 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
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12151 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000928 , 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
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12151 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000928 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Woman with headdress (2) Nkondlo, 1962
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1962
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12001 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000778 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1962
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12001 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000778 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962
Headloads of mealies, 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:12019 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000796 , 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:12019 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000796 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1971
Old man with pipe: Qutubeni, 1965
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12020 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000797 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12020 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000797 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Study in pipesmoking : 1964
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000820 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1964
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000820 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1964
‘Ubhuti wami’: a qualitative secondary analysis of brothering among isiXhosa men
- Authors: Mbewe, Mpho
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: Brotherliness , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Men, Black -- South Africa -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:3233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013149
- Description: This project is interested in investigating the construction of the fraternal sibling relationshipwithin the South African context from a narrative perspective. In particular, this study is interested in the ways in which middle aged isiXhosa men narrate experiences of brothering and how social class, as one particular context, mediates these narratives. This project is particularly interested in brothering within the isiXhosa culture and is concerned with both middle class and working class men within this cultural context. The project takes as its particular focus the meaning of brothering, and specifically how masculinity, intimacy and money or class influence the brothering practices constructed by the men in the sample. The project employs a social constructionist perspective, using a thematic narrative analysis to analyse the data. This project uses secondary analysis of data, as the data was collected for the primary use by Jackson (2009), Peirce (2009), Saville Young (Saville Young & Jackson, 2011) and Stonier (2010). The analysis reflects emergent themes of the importance of fraternal sacrifice, care-taking and sibling responsibility, honouring the family, and challenge to traditional masculinity. These themes emerged within the prior themes of masculinity, intimacy and class within brothering. The men spoke of keeping the family prosperous and united as an important duty in their brothering role. Affection was expressed more practically and symbolically, and closeness constructed through shared experiences, proximity and similarities. My findings reflect that family expectations, culture and social context had key influences on brothering, based on the men's narratives. Findings are discussed in relation to literature on brothering, masculinity and intimacy, and the influence of money in close relationships.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Mbewe, Mpho
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: Brotherliness , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Men, Black -- South Africa -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:3233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013149
- Description: This project is interested in investigating the construction of the fraternal sibling relationshipwithin the South African context from a narrative perspective. In particular, this study is interested in the ways in which middle aged isiXhosa men narrate experiences of brothering and how social class, as one particular context, mediates these narratives. This project is particularly interested in brothering within the isiXhosa culture and is concerned with both middle class and working class men within this cultural context. The project takes as its particular focus the meaning of brothering, and specifically how masculinity, intimacy and money or class influence the brothering practices constructed by the men in the sample. The project employs a social constructionist perspective, using a thematic narrative analysis to analyse the data. This project uses secondary analysis of data, as the data was collected for the primary use by Jackson (2009), Peirce (2009), Saville Young (Saville Young & Jackson, 2011) and Stonier (2010). The analysis reflects emergent themes of the importance of fraternal sacrifice, care-taking and sibling responsibility, honouring the family, and challenge to traditional masculinity. These themes emerged within the prior themes of masculinity, intimacy and class within brothering. The men spoke of keeping the family prosperous and united as an important duty in their brothering role. Affection was expressed more practically and symbolically, and closeness constructed through shared experiences, proximity and similarities. My findings reflect that family expectations, culture and social context had key influences on brothering, based on the men's narratives. Findings are discussed in relation to literature on brothering, masculinity and intimacy, and the influence of money in close relationships.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
An investigation into amaXhosa new initiates’ masculine identity construction, mediation and negotiation: implications for the Life Orientation Curriculum
- Authors: Mdaka, Sizwe
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Masculinity -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Life skills -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies , Life skills -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Curricula , Men -- Identity -- South Africa , Boys -- Education -- South Africa , Gender identity in education -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94926 , vital:31097
- Description: This study asked questions about dominant discourses shaping new amaXhosa initiates masculine identities. In particular, it asked questions on the interface between tradition and modern values and how the new initiates negotiate these in constructing masculine identities and the implications this has for schooling (and specifically LO classes). This was a qualitative case study that relied on multiple sources of data including individual and focus groups interview with AmaXhosa new initiates as well as individual interviews with teachers. The study also included classroom observations of Life Orientation classes as the selected schools. Initially, informal discussions with the new initiates were held to gain insights on their perspective of initiation schools. The findings of this study revealed three broad themes. The first was that normative masculine conceptions and manhood, with particular attention paid to constructions of manhood and masculine identity and their relation to emotional display, men as breadwinners and family providers, marriage, and heterosexuality and fatherhood. The second one was on gender space and power in the classroom which revealed masculine performance inside and outside the classroom, and the role played by sitting positions and spatial arrangements as a discursive spaces for the construction of particular masculine identities. The third related the curriculum in practice versus the stated LO curriculum and revealed a disjuncture between the two. With teachers tolerating the traditional male structures and behaviours in the classroom, despite being in conflict with the stated LO curriculum core messages on gender, patriarchy and equality, intentionally or unintentionally select a position of collusion rather than disruption of these classroom behaviours. The study results highlight the complex social space that new initiates inhabit in order to make meaning of their masculine identities, and the challenges for teachers and schools in mediating between the traditional values and behaviours of some leaners, some of which are in conflict with the values and behaviours espoused by the LO curriculum and the modernizing project goals of SA education and the Constitution.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Mdaka, Sizwe
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Masculinity -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Life skills -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies , Life skills -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Curricula , Men -- Identity -- South Africa , Boys -- Education -- South Africa , Gender identity in education -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94926 , vital:31097
- Description: This study asked questions about dominant discourses shaping new amaXhosa initiates masculine identities. In particular, it asked questions on the interface between tradition and modern values and how the new initiates negotiate these in constructing masculine identities and the implications this has for schooling (and specifically LO classes). This was a qualitative case study that relied on multiple sources of data including individual and focus groups interview with AmaXhosa new initiates as well as individual interviews with teachers. The study also included classroom observations of Life Orientation classes as the selected schools. Initially, informal discussions with the new initiates were held to gain insights on their perspective of initiation schools. The findings of this study revealed three broad themes. The first was that normative masculine conceptions and manhood, with particular attention paid to constructions of manhood and masculine identity and their relation to emotional display, men as breadwinners and family providers, marriage, and heterosexuality and fatherhood. The second one was on gender space and power in the classroom which revealed masculine performance inside and outside the classroom, and the role played by sitting positions and spatial arrangements as a discursive spaces for the construction of particular masculine identities. The third related the curriculum in practice versus the stated LO curriculum and revealed a disjuncture between the two. With teachers tolerating the traditional male structures and behaviours in the classroom, despite being in conflict with the stated LO curriculum core messages on gender, patriarchy and equality, intentionally or unintentionally select a position of collusion rather than disruption of these classroom behaviours. The study results highlight the complex social space that new initiates inhabit in order to make meaning of their masculine identities, and the challenges for teachers and schools in mediating between the traditional values and behaviours of some leaners, some of which are in conflict with the values and behaviours espoused by the LO curriculum and the modernizing project goals of SA education and the Constitution.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2019