AA 2015 Volume 47 Issue 2
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Adaptation – A model for bringing human rights and religions together
(University of the Free State, 2015)From the perspective of a collective – e.g. a religion, culture, tradition, society, or civilisation, human rights can seem to be an individualistic approach undermining the community. This negative view of human rights ... -
Accented futures. Language activism and the ending of apartheid
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School choice, school costs: the case of inner city Johannesburg private schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)This study explores school choice and school commuting within the City of Johannesburg, with specific reference to enrolment in low cost inner city private high schools. The study found that the majority of learners ... -
Elvis Presley in the South African musical imaginary
(University of the Free State, 2015)This paper derives its impetus from a question an elderly American woman once asked me: “Do people in South Africa know Elvis?” “Of course we South Africans know Elvis!” I replied. Or do we, really? Using a historiographic ... -
Personal names in language contact situations: A case of Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria
(University of the Free State, 2015)In Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria, languages incorporate a number of loanwords as personal names as a result of increasing contact with other languages and cultures. Such words are, therefore, borrowed wholesale ... -
Anthropology and the study of earthen architecture in South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2015)The contribution of anthropology to the study of shelter in Africa has been found wanting. Social Anthropology in Africa and South Africa in particular has been guilty of this neglect, while scholars from the Volkekunde ... -
A (Tall) Tale of Two Sisters: Integrating rhetorical and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to explore unreliable narration in film
(University of the Free State, 2015)There is a sustained debate in the academy about the role of narratology in film studies. This article forms part of this larger debate in exploring the application of the concept of unreliable narration to films, ... -
Reflections on legal education and radical intellectual equality
(University of the Free State, 2015)In this article I reflect, against the background of the recent special issue of this journal titled: “Law as humanities discipline: Transformative potential and political limits”, on the notion of radical intellectual ... -
Romanticism reconsidered: Fanon, reciprocity and revolution (on Fanon’s ninetieth birthday)
(University of the Free State, 2015)A romantic figure of “Third World” revolution and Black liberation, Frantz Fanon is often considered an advocate of violence as liberation therapy. Questioning the idea of Fanon as a romantic with an a priori set of ideas ...
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