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In my MA thesis I addressed more extensively these dynamics of commemorative and spatial practices and the various paradoxes I encountered.
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In my MA thesis I addressed more extensively these dynamics of commemorative and spatial practices and the various paradoxes I encountered.
4 CommentsBy Duane Jethro The 24th of September marked Heritage Day in South Africa. Inaugurated in 1996, the state figured this public holiday would afford South Africans the opportunity to critically reflect on the post-apartheid nation’s rich cultural heritage and diversity. Responding to this implicit appeal, on the 24th of September 2005, the Mzansi Braai Institute initiated the idea of reframing Heritage Day as being a celebration of the braai, or barbeque.
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By Nellie Werner The treatment of indigenous and tribal peoples, the world’s largest minority, is a major humanitarian issue. It shapes world history and raises profound questions about what it really means to be human. Tribal peoples for tomorrow’s world explains who these peoples are, how they live, why governments hate them and why their disappearance is nevertheless far from inevitable.
It looks at many aspects of tribal peoples’ lives, including their attitudes to sex, religion, and money. Concepts such as ‘culture’ and ‘the noble savage’ are examined, as well as the impact of big business, globalization, backpackers and the internet.
Easily accessible, the book is a distillation of Survival International Director Stephen Corry’s 40 years’ work with and for tribal peoples. It argues passionately, and controversially, that hunting and nomadism are neither backward nor primitive, but intelligent and conscious choices – and that upholding the law and understanding racist prejudice solves most tribal peoples’ problems. It shines a light on the ground-breaking, but entirely unrecognized, contributions they have already made to the world, and exposes the inconvenient truth that their survival is in everyone’s interest.
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Door Ina Keuper, met bijdragen van Sanneke Bolderheij, Anerike Hekman, Rixt Vellenga, Stèphanie van den Noord, Amber Dickman, Tamar Basak, Mar-Lisa Ras, Leonie Cieremans, Renske Fraanje, Yoah Kerkvliet, Vanessa Schwegler, Merel van Grimbergen
Op maandag 18 juni was het zover. Alle derdejaars studenten van de bacheloropleiding Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie lieten aan elkaar laten zien en horen waar ze de voorgaande drie maanden zo hard aan gewerkt hadden. Ze presenteerden het concept van hun bachelorthesis en gaven elkaar commentaar zodat dit nog verwerkt kon worden in de eindversie die op 29 juni moest worden ingeleverd. In totaal hebben ruim veertig studenten een verhaal gehouden over hun thesis. Een aantal studenten*) heeft een verslag geschreven van enkele presentaties ter compensatie van het missen van zittingen van het voorafgaande wekelijkse bachelorthesisatelier. Op basis hiervan is onderstaand verslag samengesteld, om aan een breed publiek te laten zien waar bachelorstudenten antropologie aan de VU zich zoal voor interesseren.
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