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Wearing the T-shirt: an exploration of the ideological underpinnings of visual representations of the African body with HIV or AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: AnnwenE BatesThe article takes a hermeneutic approach to exploring a selection of visual representations of the African body in relation to the issue of HIV and AIDS in Africa. In particular, it argues that the trope of 'deficiency' ('lack'), wherein Africa... -
HIV/AIDS messages as a spur for conversation among young South Africans?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elizabeth Lubinga --- School of Languages and Communication Studies, South Africa Margrit Schulze --- School of Languages and Communication Studies, South Africa Carel Jansen --- , The Netherlands Alfons Maes --- , The NetherlandsHIV/AIDS messages are often deliberately puzzling so as to increase the chance for them to be used as food for conversation. The South African health organisation ‘loveLife,’ for instance, uses messages that include complicated rhetorical expressions in their media campaigns,... -
Rhetoric and anthropology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Philippe-Joseph Salazar --- Centre for Rhetoric Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis essay deals with the relationship between rhetoric and anthropology, along three main lines of argument. The author offers reflections on the relationship between the two fields, highlighting contentious intersections, as in the case of the French anthropological tradition. He... -
Persistent essentialism in Polish nationalist discourse: a Wittgensteinian critique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Witold Jacorzynski --- , MexicoEssentialism, an erroneous way of thinking that can be traced to classical philosophy, assumes a thing to hold necessary intrinsic characteristics. Such thinking has been commonly employed for a popular understanding of bounded groups of people, establishing imaginary communities and... -
Accessibility information and rhetoric: an evaluation of the website communications of three New Zealand hotels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Eshwar Atul Shetty --- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Alison McIntosh --- Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandPrevious scholarship highlights the physical, social and informational barriers to participation in tourism and hospitality for people with disabilities. The provision of reliable and up-to-date information, especially via websites, is crucial to ensuring accessibility and inclusion in hospitality services and... -
Exploration of a sociocultural, ubuntu intervention strategy to enhance first-year students’ academic writing skills at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Hlaviso Motlhaka --- School of Education, University of Limpopo, South Africa Khashane S Malatji --- University of Mpumalanga, South AfricaThis qualitative research explores how to enhance the academic writing skills of first-year students at a South African university using a sociocultural intervention based on the ubuntu philosophy. It collects data through interviews, focus groups, and reflective diaries from students...