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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF TRICHOPTERA RESEARCH RELATING TO SOUTHERN AFRICA - A PERSONAL VIEW
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: K. M.F. Scott --- , South AfricaA brief account of earlier work on Trichoptera, reasons for choice of the Order, and resources built up, is followed by the story of twenty-five years of research, from 1963–1988. This includes aims in view, followed by the ‘state of... -
Embodied houses and the initiation of hospitality experiences in the Zuiderzee Museum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsIt can be argued that many potentialities within society are left unused by organising hospitality venues according to modern planning practices. These planning practices regard the setting as a rational space which is predictable and manageable. By applying modern management... -
Geographically widespread mitochondrial lineages of the African saw-wings inconsistent with species boundaries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Lisa N Barrow --- Department of Biological Science, USA Desiré L Dalton --- National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, South Africa Antoinette Kotzé --- National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, South Africa Steven W Evans --- SARCHI Chair on Biodiversity Value and Change, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, South AfricaThe African saw-wings (genus Psalidoprocne) are a group of swallows endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Although currently described as five species with several subspecies, the taxonomy of the saw-wings is unclear. We sequenced two mitochondrial genes (ND2 and cytb; 1 717... -
Embodied houses and the initiation of hospitality experiences in the Zuiderzee Museum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsIt can be argued that many potentialities within society are left unused by organising hospitality venues according to modern planning practices. These planning practices regard the setting as a rational space which is predictable and manageable. By applying modern management... -
Perceived tourist values of the Museum of African Art
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Hai-yang Meng --- School of Economics and Management, China Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South Korea Jong-pil Yu --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Ki-hyung Bae --- Department of Economics & Trade, South Korea Byong-ju An --- School of Dance, South Korea Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South KoreaThis study investigated the effects of perceived values (personal, artistic, and sociocultural) of tourists’ attitude and behavioural intention to visit Africa. Participants were tourists (176 men and 124 women) who visited the Museum of African Art based on Jeju Island... -
A tribute to William Roy Branch (1946–2018): Doyen of African Herpetology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Michael F Bates --- Department of Herpetology, National Museum, South Africa Aaron M Bauer --- Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, USALondon-born William Roy Branch spent nearly 50 years working as a herpetologist while associated with Port Elizabeth Museum. Bill, as he was known, passed away at home in Port Elizabeth on 14 October 2018, at the age of 72, after... -
A Cowrie’s Life: The São Bento and Transoceanic Trade in the Sixteenth Century
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Justine Wintjes --- , South AfricaA collection of money cowries (Monetaria moneta) was discovered in the early 1980s inside a bronze cannon salvaged from the wreck site of the São Bento (1554), at the mouth of the Mzikaba River, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Using an... -
Testing assertions of dietary specialisation: a case study of the diet of Aparallactus capensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Bryan Maritz --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Aadam Rawoot --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Ryan van Huyssteen --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe lack of detailed natural history information required to precisely characterise the diets of many organisms often results in the use of generalised descriptions of those diets. These descriptions can become dogmatic, and should be challenged with novel observational data... -
Tribute to a legend of southern African herpetology: Wulf Dietrich Haacke (1936–2021), with a bibliography of his herpetological contributions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Michael F Bates --- National Museum, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Aaron M Bauer --- Villanova University, USAWindhoek-born Wulf Dietrich Haacke’s career as a herpetologist while associated with the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria spanned more than 50 years. He passed away on 30 June 2021 at the age of 84. This tribute summarises various aspects of his... -
Misidentification of Dromophis lineatus (Dumèril & Bibron, 1854) as Psammophis sibilans (Linné 1758) and the perpetuation of error
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Barry Hughes --- , UKBeing struck by the number of instances of misidentification of Dromophis lineatus as Psammophis spp. by recognised authorities, I have summarised those that have come to my notice and tried to draw some useful conclusions from such errors. These are:... -
Reconciling National and Communal Identity in Kenya through the Asian African Heritage Exhibit
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Chepchirchir Tirop --- Stanford University, USAIn the context of contemporary questions of identity and belonging, this paper examines the Asian African Heritage museum exhibit at the Nairobi Museum. The exhibit is an attempt by members of the Indian community to solidify their place in Kenya... -
Anton Reichenow and the birds of Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Adrian JFK Craig --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe first handbook of the birds of Africa was completed in 1905 by Anton Reichenow (1847–1941). Based in the Berlin museum for almost 50 years, he described 152 African taxa that are still recognised as valid species today, and was... -
South African birds in a Canadian museum: the legacy of colonial service by Lionel E Taylor
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Adrian JFK Craig --- Rhodes University, South Africa WRJ Dean --- FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South AfricaThe Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, holds a collection of 498 specimens of 275 bird species presented by Lionel E Taylor, who worked in South Africa for the Department of Forestry from 1902 to 1911. Most specimens... -
A taxonomic revision of Arnot’s Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti (family Muscicapidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Robert J Dowsett --- , France Sylke Frahnert --- Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Germany Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire --- , FranceArnot’s Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti in the family Muscicapidae is largely confined to the woodlands of the Zambezian biome of south-central Africa. This work assesses its taxonomic status, including comments on the so-called Ruaha Chat M. [a.] collaris (also named M...