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Discourse Analysis of the Perceptions of Bereavement and Bereavement rituals of Tshivenda Speaking Women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Makondelele S. Makatu --- University of Pretoria, Claire Wagner --- University of Pretoria, Ilse Ruane --- University of Pretoria, Gertina J. van Schalkwyk --- University of Macau,This article examined the discourses of bereavement and bereavement rituals that inform Tshivenda speaking women's positions within their social structure. The Tshivenda speaking community that participated in this study is located in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo province in... -
Voices of African Traditional Healers: Cultural Context and Implications for the Practice of Counselling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lisa Lopez Levers --- Duquesne University, USA Lynne Radomsky --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Tamara Shefer --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe healing paradigm implicit in many sub-Saharan African cultures is embedded in African cosmology, and thus the recognition of this is essential for understanding Traditional African Healing practices and implementing collaborative counselling practices. To this end, this article focuses on... -
Ethics and the law relating to post-birth rituals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Knapp van Bogaert --- Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Health, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Health Sciences,Placental rituals and other birth-by rituals are common in various societies. They often include culturally determined behavioural sequences which operate as anxiety-releasing mechanisms. They also serve to offer a spiritual means of “control” over the future health and welfare of... -
Marriage as an end or the end of marriage? Change and continuity in Southern African marriages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Pauli --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany Rijk van Dijk --- African Studies Centre, The NetherlandsMarriage used to be widespread and common throughout Southern Africa. However, over the past decades marriage rates have substantially declined in the whole region. Marriage has changed from a universal rite of passage into a conspicuous celebration of middle class... -
Bereavement care support in a traditionalist South African community setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mpsanyana Makgahlela --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Tholene Sodi --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe present study investigated the bereavement care support as experienced by 14 Northern Sotho (n = 14, males = 50%; mean age = 59 years, SD = 13.7 years) community members. The study adopted the descriptive phenomenological approach. Data on... -
Death and the sociocultural dimensions of forced relocations: experiences from the Tugwi-Mukosi displacement in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hardlife Stephen Basure --- , Zimbabwe Lloyd Nhodo --- , Ghana Charles Dube --- , Zimbabwe Roselyn Kanyemba --- , South AfricaThis article is an ethnographic inquiry into the cultural dimensions of forced relocations. It is based on the experiences of four resident anthropologists on the forced displacements at Tugwi-Mukosi in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. Using the concept of death, we question... -
‘Bahari Imekufa, The Sea is Dead’: Local Perceptions of Ocean Health and Ocean Wealth among Fishers on the Kenyan Coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jacky Kosgei --- WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaUsing narratives that I recorded in June/July 2021 on Kenya’s south coast with fishers belonging to three different generations, this paper provides insights into local articulations of changes that have happened in the sea over time. These changes — which... -
Continuity and discontinuity of rituals: Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Tamia Botes --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Zikhona Ngqula --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Bopane Rampeta --- National University of Lesotho, Lesotho Thulani Baloyi --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Chanda Penda --- University of Zambia, ZambiaThe onset of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in late 2019 gave way to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that changed the world. These changes impacted many spheres of ritualised social life, including burial, funerary and cultural rituals, and rites of passage. In... -
The women eat last: traditions, table manners and gender narratives at the Romanian dining table
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alexandra Constantinescu --- Buckinghamshire New University, United KingdomThis study explores gendered food practices and mealtime dynamics in Romanian households, both in Romania and in the United Kingdom. It examines how traditions of food sourcing, preparation, and serving are reproduced, adapted, or contested in native and diasporic settings...