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Ethnologist Dr Paul-Lenert Breutz (Department of Native Affairs, 1948-1960) authored eight volumes on South Africa's Tswana-speaking communities as well as many other lesser known publications. The oral traditions and histories embedded... more
This article aims at the presentation of data recovered from an acoustic analysis of the vowels of Setswana (S31), a Bantu language spoken in Botswana, the North Western, Northern Cape and Gauteng provinces of South Africa. Descriptions... more
Archaeologists in southern Africa who wish to provide public access to visible sites face the challenge of widespread farm privatization and the associated displacement of African communities. Most of today's six million Tswana speakers... more
In Botswana, it has become a habit of late for some living in Tlokweng, adjacent to the capital of Gaborone, to claim that the Khama family took Tlokwa land and are now bound to return it to the Batlokwa. The question is, on what basis... more
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In the heart of the African bushveld, thriving communities competed for land and luxuries before the arrival of European missionaries and traders. Archaeology, oral histories and ethnography have uncovered a startling story of prosperity,... more
Deep in the heart of southern Africa, the ruins of a colossal stone walled town bear silent testimony to an African way of life almost forgotten … Undisturbed since it was abandoned nearly two centuries ago, Marothodi was the royal... more
Explores the potential of the application of a low cost, quick, and minimally invasive technique to detect chemical markers in anthropogenic sediments from a Stone Walled Site, and proposes a way to analyse the results in order to improve... more
The point of departure of the present article is the realisation that more and more serious contemporary linguistic applications are based on electronic corpora. If African linguistics is to take its rightful place in the new millennium,... more
In this article a measurement instrument for the degree of conjunctivism / disjunctivism of the South African languages is presented. Following a discussion on conjunctivism versus disjunctivism, both absolute and relative approaches... more
Corpora have been built in the Department of African Languages of the University of Pretoria since the early 1990s. Work began on a corpus for Sesotho sa Leboa, the Pretoria Sesotho sa Leboa Corpus (PSC), which gradually grew from 156 000... more
Phonetic string matching involves taking two or more strings to determine if they match. Strings that are often orthographically spelt differently are matchable (nearly equivalent), either as people's names, e.g. Smith and Smythe, or... more
The Cradle of Humankind is known for sites such as Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Drimolen and Kromdraai, among others, that offer a detailed understanding of the Plio-Pleistocene. However, the 'Tswana' stone-walled structures that are found... more
Il est temps de faire le point sur l'apport théorique et empirique de l’œuvre majeure de J. et J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, dont deux tomes sont désormais parus (le troisième est en attente) et qui reste largement méconnue... more
In the face of the dominating tradition of British structural functionalism, anthropological studies of political leadership represented an important move towards accounting for the dynamics of centralized, as well as acephalous, polities... more
"""Paperback issue October 2014; see: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=GulbrandsenState Reviews: 1)... more
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