Contents

Vol. 2, No. 1, July 2006

• Editorial comment / Tempelhoff, JWN

• Archetyping race, gender and class: advertising in The Bantu World and The World from the 1930s to the 1990s / Maake, N
• Indonesia and Africa: questioning the origins of some of Africa’s most famous icons / Dick-Read, R
• Aspects of irrigation development in the Netherlands East Indies / Ertsen, MW
• Community knowledge and sustainable natural resources management: learning from the Monpa of Arunachal Pradesh / Singh, RK & Sureja, AK
• A short comparative history of wells and toilets in South Africa and Finland / Haarhoff, J; Juuti, P & Mäki, H
• The phenomenology of experiencing poverty – an exploration / Van der Merwe, K
• Dr. Albert Hertzog se bemoeienis met die Mynwerkersunie / Visser, W
• HIV/AIDS Perceptions, attitudes and awareness of undergraduate students / Van Wyk, C
• Anachronism and the rewriting of history: the South Africa case / Verbeeck, G

• ''What happens happens, and that's all there is to it" / Finbow, S
• Betrekkinge tussen Suid-Afrika en Nederland in akademiese kontekste / De Klerk, P
• Food for thought in the realm of conservation and heritage / Gouws, C
• An editor writing for editors / Boers, M
• Deux revues francaises a l'attention des chercheurs interdisciplinaires perspicaces en Afrique du Sud / Lacroix, F
• Exploring the traces of Ancient Indonesians in Africa / Tempelhoff, JWN
• Afrikanerhistorici besin oor hul dissipline / De Klerk, P

Editorial

Thanks

TD has had a positive response from local and international readers since the first issue appeared in December 2005. Some readers provided valued comments and advice. Our intention is to respond to the suggestions and aspire to making the journal a useful academic platform for communication on matters of transdisciplinary research.

We thank you for your participation and will see to it that the channels ofcommunication are kept open, very much alive and sensitive to your requirements.

A special word of thanks to our editorial partners. Without authors of articles and a supportive editorial team this publication would not have been possible.

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Meertaligheid

Dit is die beleid van TD om, ter bevordering van wetenskapsbeoefening, in die erkende internasionale, maar ook in al die amptelike tale van Suid-Afrika, artikels en resensies te publiseer. Daarwas, totop die hede, 'n skaarste aan anderstalige bydraes. Skrywers word aangemoedig om met vrymoedigheid in enige taal met ons oor transdissiplinere wetenskapsbeoefening te kommunikeer.

Dit sou goed wees as skrywers in veral die inheemse Afrikatale bydraes lewer. In die besonder is daar op die redaksie van hierdie tydskrif 'n sagte plekkie vir skrywers wat in die San- en Khoitaal wetenskaplike mededelings wil maak. Ons is bereid om die ekstra spreekwoordelike 'myl' te stap om van bystand in hierdie verband te wees.

In die huidige uitgawe het ons wel 'n resensie van publikasies in die Franse taal. Hopelik is dit die voorloper van 'n stewige artikel uit die Franse kultuurmilieu van Afrika en/of Europa.

A TD conference?

In view of the fact that there is a growing number of researchers in the field of transdisciplinary research in southern Africa, there has been a suggestion that maybe an opportunity to communicate should be created in the form of a conference. It should be an occasion for like-minded individuals, and interested parties, to participate in discussions on their encounters with transdisciplinary methodologies research. Perhaps it could be the start of forging networks of collaboration in the field of transdisciplinary research in many spheres, not only in southern Africa, but also further afield.

Formal and informal discussions are currently being conducted on the matter. Readers are welcome to email the editor on the matter.