Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies) by Subject "Ethnography"

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Psychiatric treatment at a forensic psychiatric hospital in South Africa : an ethnographic inquiry

Pillay, Indira (University of Pretoria, 2023-06-20)

The tragic deaths that resulted from the closure of the Life Esidimeni mental health facility in Gauteng, South Africa, questioned many facets of mental health care, patients’ rights, and the agents of power in health care. ...
Shared secrets – concealed sufferings : social responses to the AIDS epidemic in Bushbuckridge, South Africa

Stadler, Jonathan James (University of Pretoria, 2012-08-15)

From the early 1990s, rates of HIV infection increased dramatically in South Africa and by the early 2000s, AIDS emerged as the main cause of death for adult South Africans. During the first half of the 2000s, the South ...
Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria

Owoeye, Omotato Idowu Oke (University of Pretoria, 2017)

Despite the emergence of narrative and humanistic anthropological perspectives on thriving indigenous textile technologies, indigo dyed textile products are often read as homogenous products, devoid of Yoruba women-dyers' ...

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