Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Culture"
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African traditional religion: a new struggle for African identity
(Association For Theological Education In South East Asia, 2015)This article investigates the social status attributed to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in determining culture and identity. Since ATR is seen to be the sum total of the peculiarities shared by African people, African ... -
A critical review of studies of South African youth resilience, 1990–2008
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)Given the growing emphasis in research and service provision on strengths rather than deficits, the focus on youth support in the South African Children’s Act of 2005 and the lack of educational, therapeutic and other ... -
A "Day in the Lives" of Four Resilient Youths: Cultural Roots of Resilience
(SAGE Publications, 2011)Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We triangulate ... -
Mediating Intercultural Communication: the cultural filter and the Act of Translation/Interpreting
(Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages, 2002)Commonplaces and strong and passionate views abound when culture, cultural mediation and communication in general are considered. This is no less true in the field of translation and interpreting, where recent theoretical ... -
Promoting and preserving cultural identities through multilingual advertising: the case of Cameroon and South Africa
(Ponte Editore, 2017)Multilingualism and multiculturalism are vehicles that could be used to promote and preserve cultural identities in Cameroon and South Africa given their rich historical and cultural backgrounds. This paper investigates ... -
Psychosocial predictors of family values among undergraduate students in a South African University
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)This study investigated the psychosocial predictors of family values among undergraduate students in a South African University. Studies have shown that family values among Africans generally vary from one family to the ... -
Singing me to you
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This article is concerned with the noticeable increase in musicians from previously disadvantaged communities (population groups who were previously disenfranchised) in South Africa who are studying, researching and ... -
Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
(Sage Publications, 2013)Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ...