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   Categorical difference versus continuum: Rethinking Turner's liminal-liminoid distinction

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew D Spiegel --- Department of Social Anthropology,

   Turner's distinction between liminal and liminoid is not commonly drawn upon, liminality being seen and applied to all ‘betwixt and between’ social situations. Yet Turner's distinction, once appropriately revised, offers a more nuanced means to understand such situations. The criteria...

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   “Giving God his due?” Understanding tithing and its function within the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Evan Carl Edward Jacobs --- NRF Chair in History Programme: “Local Histories and Present Realities,”, South Africa

   This paper focuses on the practice of tithing as an extraordinary form of religious giving. Tithing involves habitually giving ten percent of one's income to the church, and since this is such a significant portion of a person's income, its...

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   “We have that connection, we have love; we take wildlife as gifts from our ancestors”: relations between antelopes and Khwe in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Romie Nghitevelekwa --- University of Namibia, Namibia Selma Lendelvo --- University of Namibia, Namibia Fenny Ndapewa Nakanyete --- University of Namibia, Namibia Kletus Likuwa --- Social Sciences Division, University of Namibia, Namibia Kenneth Matengu --- University of Namibia, Namibia David Mushavanga --- , Namibia

   Wildlife plays significant roles in many societies that go beyond its ecological importance and economic rationale associated with conservation. This article examines the meanings of antelopes for the Khwe people in Bwabwata National Park in north-eastern Namibia. It underlines the...

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