Browsing by Subject "boundaries"

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    Continuing Conversations at the Frontier
    (2010) Mulaudzi, Maanda; Schoeman, H M; Chirikure, Shadreck
    Researchers involved or interested in the 500 Year Initiative (FYI) gathered at the University of Cape Town in June 2008 to explore how different disciplines engaged in historical studies may better communicate and collaborate within and between each other. Appropriately titled ‘Continuing Conversations at the Frontier’, participants in this conference challenged themselves to cross the theoretical and methodological borders separating archaeology, history, geography, anthropology and linguistics, in order to understand how and under what influence modern southern African identities have taken shape over the past 500 years. These conversations made it clear that new insights are not only reliant on new data, but that it is equally important to expose our methodologies and processes of gaining understanding. In addition to confronting disciplinary boundaries and methods, social and spatial frontiers were key loci for discussion, although it became apparent that historians and archaeologists have approached frontiers in different ways. We briefly explore the roots of these approaches.
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    Writing Your World Week 3 Video 3 - Pool of abundance: Understanding culture
    (2019-06-01) Nomdo, Gideon; Hunma, Aditi
    This video focuses on the responses to Joey's questions about culture. The video discusses Robert Thornton's perspectives based on one of his pieces of writing.The points raised by Thornton are discussed and questions are put forward based on the text. The video then discusses the culture versus cultures debate put forward by Thornton. It also discusses the idea of cultural groups and how they came to be. The video also touches on how access to resources can lead to these resources being regarded as cultural resources. The video then discusses how culture can be seen as a resource. This is video 3/12 in week 3 of the Writing your World course.