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

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Popular fear and distrust of a hospital dubbed 'Slagpale' : an ethnography of gossip and rumour in former KwaNdebele, South Africa

Zwane, Job (University of Pretoria, 2018-07-24)

This dissertation is an ethnographic exploration of gossip and rumour around the fear and distrust that surrounds a local hospital in KwaNdebele that has acquired a reputation as a slagpale (an Afrikaans term for ...
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 ...

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