scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ARCHIVES IN THE DOCUMENTATION OF ORAL TRADITIONS, A CASE OF THE SAN PEOPLE IN TSHOLOTSHO AND PLUMTREE

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Sindiso Bhebhe ◽  
Anele Chirume
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Oral History Interviews

The Tshwao or San people, formally known as Bushmen, are believed to have been the first people to settle in what is known as Zimbabwe today. The migration of the agriculturalist ethnic groups, especially the Ndebele and Kalanga kingdoms, into their territory has affected their social way of life. It has led to forced assimilation, marginalization and dispossession of their land, including their rock paintings and denial of land rights. This has meant that they have lost most of their cultural values and identity, most notably their language, land and religion. There is therefore an urgent need to document the activities of the San people in order to salvage their cultural activities. Various cultural activities of the San people are connected to their land. Their religion is connected to  articular land, for example Matopo and Njelele. This land has been taken away from their control, meaning their religion has been compromised. The San are generally nomadic and more inclined to a gathering and hunting life style. The fact that they can no longer move around because of resettlements of the Kalanga and Ndebele people on their land has disturbed this way of life. This article is based on the use of oral history interviews in collecting data. Purposive sampling will be done so that specifically targeted San people will be interviewed in such a way that they tell their life histories. Literature regarding the San people will also be reviewed.

Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailesh Shukla ◽  
Jazmin Alfaro ◽  
Carol Cochrane ◽  
Cindy Garson ◽  
Gerald Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Indigenous Foods ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian Academies, 2014) that highlight community voices in food security still remain under-represented and under-studied in this discourse. University of Winnipeg (UW) researchers and Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) representatives began an action research partnership to explore Indigenous knowledges associated with food cultivation, production, and consumption practices within the community since 2012. The participatory, place-based, and collaborative case study involved 17 oral history interviews with knowledge keepers of FRCN. The goal was to understand their perspectives of and challenges to community food security, and to explore the potential role of Indigenous food knowledges in meeting community food security needs. In particular, the role of land-based Indigenous foods in meeting community food security through restoration of health, cultural values, identity, and self-determination were emphasized by the knowledge keepers—a vision that supports Indigenous food sovereignty. The restorative potential of Indigenous food sovereignty in empowering individuals and communities is well-acknowledged. It can nurture sacred relationships and actions to renew and strengthen relationships to the community’s own Indigenous land-based foods, previously weakened by colonialism, globalization, and neoliberal policies.

scholarly journals ON THE PRODUCTION OF MY FAIR LION AND HIS PRIDE: A REFLEXIVE EXERCISE IN ORAL HISTORY

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Maarman Samuel Tshehla
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Memory Formation ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

My fair lion and his pride is an autobiographical narrative of the life story of a respected and beloved, yet reserved and unlettered matriarch. The pleasure of capturing her recollections befell the present author. Consequently, the task of reflecting on the process that led to the production of My fair lion has also befallen him. In the present reflection, the author undertakes a retrospective journey guided by questions pertaining to oral history methodology. The dynamics of an individual remembering past events; the place of formal literacy in memory formation and retrieval; the role of the oral historian in oral history interviews and such other issues are indirectly explored below. In the end, it appears that while this author’s preceding ignorance of oral history considerations may have disadvantaged the production of My fair lion, the latter retains and communicates sufficient qualities not of a grand narrative, but of a down-to-earth Christian mother, wife, and in-law.

The role of life histories in an age of apology: A presence of the past?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieselot De Wilde ◽  
Bruno Vanobbergen ◽  
Griet Roets
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
To Come

Based on an oral history study that retrospectively explores the life histories of former orphans in the city of Ghent (Belgium) after the Second World War, we analyse and critique the role of historical research in the current apology trend. Due to the crucial role of (oral) history in these out-of-home care inquiries, these official public apologies, offered by the state as an attempt to come to terms with the past, deserve some specific academic attention in social work research. By inquiring into historical abuse in child welfare and educational institutions, governments of the Western world attempt to close a rather dark chapter in their national histories. Relying on research insights emerging from our research project with formerly orphaned children, we argue that it is impossible to puzzle together one common historical narrative. Moreover, we discovered that the history of the Ghent orphanages is still very much debated and alive more than 35 years after their doors were closed. In this article, we tease out how life histories can play a role in Western welfare states today. We therefore explore the relevance of the notion of ‘presence’ in order to rethink the relationship between the past and the present.

scholarly journals Cultural Domination in New Normal Implementation on Behalf of Pandemic Covid 19

Al-Ulum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratisto Tinarso
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
New Normal ◽  
New Era ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Cultural Domination

This study focuses on cultural domination effect in society on New Normal era.  This study is a field study. The data was collected through data inventory, then it analyzed and interpreted.  The result of this research showed three aspect of new normal culture in society, firstly, ideally the New normal life style should be socialized in society cultural forum, such as forum group discussion, colloquy, seminar, etc.  Secondly, the society will be more familiar with the New Era life style, when its implementation accommodates cultural values of society and respect the ritual ceremony of custom and culture. Thirdly, the New Normal life style implementation will be more convenient to be accepted in society, when it improved the role of custom and society leaders. Fourthly, the definition and the meaning of New Normal life style, nowdays, should be enrich by the meaning of health care in line with cultural society which tends to community health care more than to personality health care.

Micro-history of a house: memory and place in a Milanese neighbourhood, 1890–2000

Urban History ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN FOOT
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Urban History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Changing World

ABSTRACTThe micro-history of one apartment block in the inner-suburb of Bovisa, Milan over a period of 100 or so years is examined using oral history interviews to trace the development of the block and its residents in relation to that of the city of Milan. The piece is bounded by theoretical reflections on the role of micro-history, oral history and other methodologies as tools for understanding the home and urban history, and concludes that the survival of a rural past, the role of gender, the importance of architecture and of nostalgic memory in a rapidly changing world were important influences.

Shifting Identities in the Life Histories of Working-Class Women in Socialist Hungary

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Zsófia Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Shifting Identities

This article explores how working-class women who belonged to the prize-winning Liberation Brigade of the Budapest Hosiery Factory in the 1970s represented their identities at different stages of their lives in oral-history interviews conducted with the author between 1998 and 2003. It argues that these identities had a deeply ambiguous relationship to those that the official discourse of the socialist era ascribed to them. Issues of consent, accommodation, and opposition are raised, which not only shaped identities under socialism, but continue to shape working-class memory of the period.

scholarly journals The Concept of Diasporic Cultural Values of the Aceh Community in Yan, Kedah

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-243
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Traditional Sports ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Definition Of

Culture is embedded in the way of life of the society consisting oral traditions, languages, folklore, rites and faith, music and songs, performing arts, traditional herbal medicine, literature, traditional food as well as traditional sports and games. The culture of a society differs from one another. Value is a concept of culture that exists in the human mind and not in an object. Value can be defined as something that has benefits and interests shared by humanity. This study explores the culture of the diasporic community of Aceh in Yan, Kedah. The focus of the study are the cultural values of Aceh obtained from interviews, observations and library research. Aceh culture is filled with the diversity of prestigious values that are based from Islamic religious beliefs. This study will also describe the fundamentals of cultural values of the society’s present Aceh in dealing with outside influences in the era of globalization and the problems faced by the community in the context of the Aceh nation. Furthermore, the study will focus on moral values found in Aceh’s culture. The definition of the diasporic Aceh community is emotionally and politically committing oneself to their motherland however, this perception had changed and developed through movements and migration around the world including their current place situated in Malaysia. They brought along cultural values and world viewto be inherited by the younger generation who are the foundation for the expansion of Aceh culture in nowadays community.

scholarly journals TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SABAR DRUMS: INNOVATIONS IN ORGANOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN SENEGAL AND THE DIASPORA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Patricia Tang
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
South African ◽  
First Century ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Jazz Performance ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s–50s through the 1960s–70s when New Brighton’s premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their artistry. The role of swing bands in New Brighton and surrounding communities as the training ground for members of the Soul Jazzmen and other local musicians of note is discussed, as well as how the Soul Jazzmen in turn were tutors for musicians of the next generation who became widely recognized artists, composers and arrangers. This is followed by a focus on the Soul Jazzmen and compositions by its members that protested against the apartheid regime in the 1960s–70s. The article is informed by historic photographs, newspaper clippings and information from oral history interviews that richly document how jazz was performed in service of the anti-apartheid struggle in New Brighton.

Cultural creolisation and language use in post-colonial Africa: the case of Senegal

Africa ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Swigart
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Urban Communication ◽  
French Culture

Scholars have recently begun to describe a speech form emerging in post-colonial cities which reflects the creative melding or ‘creolisation’ of elements from indigenous and former colonial cultures. These ‘urban varieties’ are not, strictly speaking, Creoles but rather indigenous languages whose structures and lexicons have been adapted to the complexities of urban life. A primary characteristic of such varieties is their ‘devernacularisation’. No longer tied to the cultural values represented by the languages in their more traditional forms, they reflect instead the new values and way of life found in the urban centres where they are spoken. This article, based on fieldwork conducted in Senegal between 1986 and 1989, describes the formation and role of one such urban linguistic variety, Urban Wolof. In particular, it focuses on Dakarois’ conflicting tendencies to accept Urban Wolof in Dakar as the most pragmatic form of urban communication while rejecting it as evidence of an undesirable creolisation between indigenous and French culture.

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