Southern Africa Revealed
Author | : Elaine Hurford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Coffee-table book with the usual touristic shots.
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Author | : Elaine Hurford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Coffee-table book with the usual touristic shots.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004500227 |
This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente.
Author | : A. J. Tankard |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461381479 |
Syntheses of the geology of major areas of the Earth's crust are increasingly needed in order that the features of, and the problems associated with, the secular evolution of the continents can be understood by a wide audience. Southern Africa is fortunate in having a remarkable variety of geological environments developed without many breaks over 3. 8 Ga, and many of the rock groups are household names throughout the geological world. In one respect the geology of Southern Africa is particularly important: cratonization clearly began as early as 3. 0 Ga ago, in contrast to about 2. 5 Ga in most other continental areas such as North America. This book documents very well the remarkable change in tectonic conditions that took place between the Early and Mid-Precambrian; we have here evidence of the very earliest development of rigid lithospheric plates. This book is a tribute to the multitudes of scientists who have worked out the geology of Southern Africa over many years and decades. Whatever their discipline, each provided a step in the construction of this fascinating story of 3. 8 Ga of crustal development. In the book the reader will find a detailed review of the factual data, together with a balanced account of interpretative models without the indulgence of undue speculation. One of its attractions is its multidisciplinary approach which provides a stimulating challenge to the reader.
Author | : Gideon Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2011-11-05 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1920544445 |
Aloes are stately succulent plants that capture the allure of the African savanna. Aloes in Southern Africa explores the character and biology of African aloes, their habits, characteristic features and distribution in nature. It details 58 aloe and related species, cultivation and propagation, gardening styles and plants that flourish in different regions, plus medicinal, cosmetic and culinary uses. Whether you are starting a garden, redeveloping one or simply looking to expand your knowledge of these fascinating succulents, Aloes in Southern Africa will prove an invaluable guide.
Author | : Amy McKenna Senior Editor, Geography and History |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 161530312X |
This book examines the history of southern Africa, including an overview of each of the countries that comprise that area of the continent.
Author | : Athelstan Ridgway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marc Epprecht |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780773527515 |
Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.
Author | : Lance Van Sittert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 9004154191 |
The role of the dog in human society is the connecting thread that binds the essays in "Canis Africanis," each revealing a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through gambling on dogs to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, and social rebellion through resisting the dog tax imposed by colonial authorities. With its focus on dogs in human history, this project is part of what has been termed the 'animal turn' in the social sciences, which investigates the spaces which animals inhabit in human society and the way in which animal and human lives interconnect, demonstrating how different human groups construct a range of identities for themselves (and for others) in terms of animals. So instead of conceiving of animals as merely constituents of ecological or agricultural systems, they can be comprehended through their role in human cultures.
Author | : Leslie Bank |
Publisher | : Hurst Publishers |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1787388727 |
This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential ‘super-spreader’ events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly. To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people’s science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands–commonly, yet problematically, represented as former ‘labour reserves’–have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state’s assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.