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The exploration of indigenous knowledge systems of the Barolong boo Ratshidi with a special focus on traditional healing
Get PDFAbstract in English and SestwanaThe Barolong boo Ratshidi is part of the Batswana ethnic group who still uses traditional healing practices to maintain their health because these practices are the backbone of African culture. However, the Barolong boo Ratshidi’s migration to urban areas has affected their traditional healing practices as they had to adapt to Western practices. Their Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and the importance of their traditional healing are fading away since there is very little documentation of them. To explore the traditional healing practices of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, this study employed the ethnographic method for data collection for a period of three months. In-depth interviews were conducted with six participants to explore their perspectives on the above challenges. Informal interviews were conducted with eight participants for the in-depth exploration of the topic of the study, and they provided rich qualitative data. Two focus group discussions were conducted with Barolong boo Ratshidi youths and elders to obtain different views and perspectives from both groups. I further embedded myself in a group of traditional healers during the Annual Conference of the Dingaka Association to observe and learn their traditional healing ways. The data were analysed thematically to refine the themes and the presentation of the findings. The study revealed that in the Barolong boo Ratshidi community, the traditional healing system still plays a significant role and forms part of their IKS. There is a need for further, thorough research that will contribute to the preservation of the Barolong boo Ratshidi’s IKS. The preservation of the IKS is critical in ensuring that all types of knowledge are included in the development of South African societyBarolong boo Ratshidi ke karolo ya setlhopa sa morafe wa Batswana bao ba santseng ba dirisa mekgwa ya go alafa ya setso go tlhokomela boitekanelo jwa bone, ka gore mekgwa e ke seikokotlelo sa setso sa SeAfrika. Le fa go le jalo, khudugo ya Barolong boo Ratshidi go ya metse setoropong e nnile le seabe mo kalafong ya bone ya setso ka gore ba ne ba tshwanetse go itlwaetsa mekgwa ya metse setoropo. Tsamaiso ya kitso ya tlholego le botlhokwa ba kalafi la setso tsa bone, di a nyelelela ka ntlha ya kwadiso e e bokoa ya tsona. Go sekaseka mekwa ya kalafi ya setso ya Barolong boo Ratshidi, patlisiso e, e dirisitse mokwa wa “ethnographic” go kgobokanya kitso sebaka sa dikgwedi di le tharo. Dipotsolotso tse di tseneletseng di ne tsa dirwa le batsayakarolo ba le ba rataro go sekaseka megopolog ya bona ka dikgwetlho tse di kwetsweng fa godimo. Dipotsolotso tse di sa tlhamalelang di dirilwe le batsayakarolo ba le robedi go dira ditlhotlhomiso tse di tseneletseng go fetisa ka setlhogo sa patlisiso e. Dipuisano tsa ditlhopha tse pedi tsa tlhomamo, di ne tsa tshwarwa le bagolo le bašwa ba Barolong boo Ratshidi go bona ditebego le megopolo e fapafapaneng go tswa go ditlhopha tseo pedi. Ke ne ka tswelelela go nna gone le go tsaya karolo kwa kopanong ya dingaka tsa setso ka nako ya moletlo wa ngwaga le ngwaga wa mokgatlo wa bone go elatlhoko le go ithuta ka mekgwa ya kalafi ya setso. Dintla di sekasekilwe ka kelotlhoko go tokafatsa melaetsa le ditshupetso tsa ditshweetso tsa dipatlisiso. Dipatlisiso di senotse gore mo gare ga morafe wa Barolong boo Ratshidi, kalafi ya setso le tsamaiso ya kitso ya tlholego di santse di tshameka karolo ya botlhokwa thata. Go santse go tlhokega gore go dirwe dipatlisiso tse di tseneletseng tse di tla thusang ka tshomarelo ya tsamaiso ya kitso ya tlholego ya Barolong boo Ratshidi. Tshomarelo ya tsamiso ya kitso ya tlholego e botlhokwa thata go tlhomamisa gore mekwa yotlhe ya kitso e akareditswe mo ditlhabologong tsa morafe wa Afrika Borwa.M. A. (Anthropology)Anthropology and Archaeolog
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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