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Browsing Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies by Type "Dissertation"
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Mendes, Bernardete Chavonga
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This research investigates the ways in which Angolan ex-combatants of 32 Battalion have
been making a living since the disbandment of the unit in 1993. Moreover, it seeks to
understand the reasons behind the ex-combatants’ ...
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Chepkwony, Irene Chebet
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study falls within the field of ecotourism. Ecotourism brings together natural resource conservation, community participation and sustainable development. To achieve this, there is a need for cooperation between the ...
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Nyirongo, Chifwiri N.
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Climate change is the noticed change in climate patterns in the world, drawing from various weather patterns taken across the world. This study set out to look at how rural farming communities are adapting to climate change ...
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Magaba, Pemphero Theodora
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This study focused on understanding the contemporary migration of Malawian transnational students to South Africa and their economic and sociocultural experiences in selected South African universities. It was motivated ...
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Schoeman, Martie
(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-21)
This study contributes to the limited academic knowledge (particularly anthropological knowledge) available on the working behaviour of black women workers. The study focuses on how black women workers perceive and experience ...
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Verkerk, Domonique-Marie
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The South African War (1899-1902) was ostensibly a “White man’s war” between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics, the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and the Orange Free State, but both sides involved Africans in the ...
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Phiri, Olipa
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This dissertation examines one community garden situated in Mamelodi in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Using qualitative research methods, including participant observation and interviews, the dissertation ...
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Lippert, Belinda Leigh
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The rise of complex societies in the Limpopo Valley has received much attention over the years. The development and functioning of socio-political centres, such as Mapungubwe, has been the chief focus. Mapungubwe elite are ...
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Steyn, Bianca
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The focus of this research is on Mutamba, a 13th century Middle Iron Age (MIA) settlement situated in the Soutpansberg, South Africa and is the first archaeobotanical study of a MIA settlement. Many communities of this ...
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Joubert, Michelle
(University of Pretoria, 2019-11-30)
Musina (Messina), is a small town in far northern South Africa known for its copper mining history. To date, historical narratives about South African industrialisation, especially with regards to the mining sector, have ...
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Hanisch, Edwin Oscar Max
(University of Pretoria, 1980)
An archaeological investigation was made of two Iron Age sites on the farms Schroda and Pont Drift. The farms are situated on the southern bank of the Limpopo River, about 65 km and 95 km respectively west of Messina. ...
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Jordaan, Jacqueline
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This master’s study concerns a Tswana stone-walled site in the North West Province. Within this province, the Zeerust-Rustenburg-Pilanesberg region has been of particular interest to Tswana settlement studies. In this ...
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Seiler, Trent Clayton
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Our understanding of the Later Stone Age on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape has, until recently, been focused on specific forager camp types, namely shelters. This does not place significance on the range and variability ...
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Jordaan, Gerhard
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This dissertation reports on investigations carried out on two Early Farming Community (AD 250-1000) sites in the eastern Lowveld of South Africa, more specifically the Kruger National Park. During the past 50 years, much ...
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Nelson, Cindy
(University of Pretoria, 2009-10-02)
Focussing on Archaeozoological faunal analysis, this dissertation aims to investigate the animal food utilization practices of the Ndzundza Ndebele by combining archaeozoologcial methods, archaeological data, ethnographic ...
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Lugogo, Sonwabile
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Climate finance and the question of “a just transition” have been the subject of heated debate in South Africa in recent years. This Master’s dissertation Assessing the effectiveness of climate finance in promoting a just ...
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Gilbert, Gilbert Marlon
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The problem this dissertation engages with is the role of state-defined pathways available for ‘legal’ Caribbean migrants to South Africa, to effectively become South African citizens through practices of assimilation; ...
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Webster, Dennis Edward
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The management of informality by the state has a long and complicated history
in Johannesburg. This dissertation deals with one recent element of that history: the
relationship between informal street traders and the ...
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Shilubane, Babsy S.E.
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
In the contemporary era, non-state actors continue to play a crucial role in the development of
and bringing change to society and people’s lives as they are major stakeholders in the social
development process. While ...
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Tayimlong, Robert Afuh
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
2019 marked 10 years since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency. While violent conflicts hardly ever have straightforward explanations, the narrative on the insurgency has been reductionist – largely addressing the ...