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Theses and Dissertations (Historical and Heritage Studies): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study investigates the role of science, religion, and race in the abusive use of aversion therapy practices in South Africa during the apartheid era to deal with white ‘deviant’ behaviours. Existing literature on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)From the Steppes to the Hagia Sophia: A select Historiographical Study of early Ottoman culture, is a literary analysis of the historiography covering the cultural practices of the Ottoman state and its people between 1299 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11)This thesis analyses the representation of the Khoisan in two very distinct visual media, film and formally curated exhibitions in the mid to late 20th century. Films and museum exhibitions are read in relation to the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Music, ‘Movement and Displacement’: Black Musical Innovations, 1920s-1960s, is an investigation of the emergence of music genres and performance styles in urban Black South Africa from the 1920s to the 1960s. The research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study attempts to examine the relationship between archives, tourism and museums by positioning museums as a conduit between them. It takes a closer look at this triangular relationship by first considering the history ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation is an intellectual biography of one of South Africa’s most renowned journalists, Percy Qoboza. Qoboza grew up in the culturally vibrant suburb of Sophiatown and attended the Anglican mission school, St ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In this study the impact and influence of the pioneering Portuguese in southern Africa is investigated. The history of the Portuguese in Africa is often overlooked and usually confined to the early years of European ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study explores the history and development of what would become the South African public archive through the twentieth century. The “invisible voices” in the title refer to women archivists in the South African public ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Urban tourism has become an important sector within the global tourism industry as it is able to serve a range of tourists and contribute to the local economy. The urban environment usually is seen as “standing alone” with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)By the 1970s, when the internal mainstream anti-apartheid movement had been disrupted and was beginning to re-group elsewhere, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) emerged to occupy the vacuum left by mainstream formations. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)South Africa is a tourist destination that offers international tourists unique cultural, natural and adventure experiences. The country is one of Africa’s top destinations and features Big Five safari destinations, wine ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The poaching of elephants and trade in both legal and illegal ivory is a complex topic which is ever present in wildlife conservation discussions. This dissertation presents a historical overview of the legal history of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1992)Afrikaans: Hierdie studie handel oor die geskiedenis van die totstandkoming en die ontwikkeling van die Nasionale Dieretuin van Suid-Afrika tot 1984. Dit was deur die volgehoue ywer van dr. J.W.B. Gunning, toenmalige ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1962)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Textiles are an important part of social history and often neglected in museum collections. Lace objects are textiles with an unambiguous European heritage. Examples of this kind of tangible heritage object are found in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis considers the relationship between Germany’s South-West African colony and its British South African counterparts (the Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia and, after the second Anglo-Boer War, the Orange River Colony, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study affirms the value inherent in memory work, demonstrating that it can create empowering pathways through which to activate personal, community and by extension, national healing- the latter being a constant ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Lighthouses have long been the focus of naval navigation and romantic literature. Until recently, this was seen as the core purpose of the coastal structures, but lighthouses have begun to take on a new role in the sphere ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-06-14)This dissertation explores the history of postsecondary education institutions in Mamelodi, a black township in Pretoria East, with a view to discerning why Mamelodi, having had postsecondary education institutions for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-11-25)Afrikaans: In die tydperk 1822 tot 1875 het Groot-Brittanje verskeie aansprake rakende eienaarskap op die suidelike gedeelte van Delagoabaai gemaak wat tot ‘n aantal insidente met Portugal gelei het. Hierdie aansprake ...
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