Multifaceted perspectives : a project seminar on concepts of culture and tradition in Botswana / Institut für Soziologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen. Institut für Soziologie.

Series:

Palaver ; 12.

Palaver : Kleine Schriften zum südlichen Afrika, 1433-8572 ; 12

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Manners and customs.

Botswana--Social life and customs.

Botswana.

Social change--Botswana.

Physical Description:

67 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gießen : Institut für Soziologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, [2008]

Contents:

Perspectives of the others : learning about concepts of culture and tradition in a project seminar / Georgia A. Rakelmann

Legacy and leadership. When the stones were still soft : the story of OUR people / Christine Hofmann ; The lead cow gets whipped the most : traditions of democracy in Botswana / Philipp Kumria ; A chorus of moderated voices : breaking the news in Botswana's media / Niko Wald

The Mapoka photo project : elderly women as photographers / Julia Erb

Social Being. Three roofs, two roofs, one roof? : traditional and modern settlement patterns / Stefanie Gäckle ; Under the shade of the Marula : a story / Brhan Marcos ; Knowledge is power : education in Botswana / Amanda Eckert ; Diversity through hybridity : religion in Botswana / Katharina Naumann ; When death occurs : death and burial rites in a changing society / Christina Weber

The Mapoka photo project : children as photographers / Julia Erb

Subjects in exchange. Good behavior is a very important thing : a short discourse on manners / Jana-C. Diener ; The socialised body in tradition and change : fertility and beauty / Irene Baumbach, Hamta Hedayati, Fredericke Leuschner ; Strong bonds : family relations in a rural society / Kirsten Spiegelberg ; What Badimo can't help, hospital can't cure : traditional medicine and its actors / Jenny Peters.

Notes:

Title from cover.

OCLC:

806287357