King's monuments: identifying ‘formlings’ in southern African San rock paintings

Mguni, Siyakha

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00094059

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“…The same exudate-producing plant families are also widely used by local people in traditional medicine (Ho 1999). Indigenous people across the tropics, for whom stingless bees (Trigonidae) and honeybees (Apidae, Apis mellifera) are cultural keystones (Posey 2002, Mguni 2006, are well aware of the bees' preference for these tree species. In southern Africa, for example, latex of Spirostachys africana and Garcinia livingstonei is so attractive to stingless bees that local people use twigs from these trees to follow bees to their nests (Cunningham 1985).…”

Section: Latex-producing Plants Logging and The Health Of Bee Coloniesmentioning

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Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species

Shackleton¹,

Ticktin²,

Cunningham³

2018

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Nontimber forests products (NTFPs) are the mainstay of rural livelihoods and local economies the world over. As such they are of interest to a wide disciplinary range of researchers and development and government agencies seeking to promote livelihoods, incomes, and ecologically sustainable practices. With the attention on the various human uses of NTFPs, their role and networks in the broader biological communities in which they are located are frequently overlooked. Harvesting of many NTFPs has effects not only at the organism and population scales, but also on co-occurring species, some of which may also be NTFPs. Thus, reduction or loss of one NTFP population or species in a specific area may have cascade effects on other NTFP species, including those used for cultural purposes. We illustrate the little appreciated importance of NTFPs in broader ecological and social systems by assessing and illustrating the importance of NTFP species as ecological or biocultural keystones in providing regulating and supporting ecological services to other species and cultural services to people. We present a number of examples where NTFP species act as keystones in ecological and cultural systems, including food, pollination and dispersal, animal health, nutrients, shelter and protection, and cultural symbolism, most of which have not been considered by NTFP researchers and practitioners. From these examples we distill six propositions regarding NTFPs and discuss the value of recognizing some NTFPs as biocultural keystones to acknowledge and highlight their roles at broader scales.

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Section: Latex-producing Plants Logging and The Health Of Bee Coloniesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species

Shackleton¹,

Ticktin²,

Cunningham³

2018

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“…In chapter two the study underscored that according to Chiwome (1996) and Chinyowa (2007) prior to independence development of the ChiShona novel and play was influenced by the colonial regime which made the production of ChiShona literary works subject to the Rhodesia Literature Bureau. A number of Zimbabwean literary critics who critique the literature Bureau such as Furusa (2006), Wasosa (2014), Muwati (2009), Mutasa and Muwati (2007), and Makaudze (2009) concur that the Literature Bureau dictated the themes which authors were supposed to pursue as well as censoring all literary works to ensure that no politically-charged protest literature was written. The Literature Bureau was mainly interested in the safety of the white people.…”

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Disability representation in selected Zimbabwean Chishona novels and plays.

Hapanyengwi

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The issue of disability is a bone of contention in Zimbabwe and worldwide. People with disabilities (PWD) are looked down upon and are always viewed with a negative eye. Attempts have been made at both the international and national levels to address this problem. Internationally, Zimbabwe is a state party to the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPWD) (2006). The convention is an attempt by the United Nations (UN) to change attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. Locally the government of Zimbabwe in its constitution of (2013, p.10) section 83 recognises the worthiness of persons with disabilities and as such calls for their protection and dignity. Despite these efforts, nothing has come to fruition as no significant change has been realised people with disabilities continue to be marginalised. Literature has a role to play in shaping attitudes and perceptions towards disability in society and as such, there is a need to look at what it communicates about disability in case it could be a contributory factor. This study explores the depiction of disability in selected ChiShona novels and plays with a view to answering the following questions. (i) How is disability represented in selected ChiShona novels and plays within the context of Vumunhu? (ii) What factors explain the selected ChiShona novel and play authors’ perception of, and attitudes towards disability? and (iii) Why do ChiShona writers create characters with a disability? The study used Vumunhu/ Unhu/ Ubuntu as its Theoretical framework realising that Vumunhu places value on respect for human life and dignity. Hence the study sought to find out if authors recognise the worthiness of characters with disabilities as human beings in their depiction of such characters. The study sought to find out if artists create characters with disabilities with due respect and dignity as any other characters. In an effort to answer the above questions the study adopted literary analysis as a research methodology which encompassed document analysis, critical discourse analysis as well as the translation method as research methods. The research established that disability is underrepresented in most of the studied texts. This underrepresentation is reflected in the limited number of texts that discuss disability and the inadequate fictional space that is accorded characters with disabilities in the studied texts. Another major finding of the study is that the depiction of disability is largely negative and derogatory terms are used to address those with disabilities in most of the texts, an indication that the majority of authors’ depiction of disability is not in line with the principles of Vumunhu. The study demonstrated that disability and characters with disabilities are included in literary works as a literary device which contributes to the negative depiction of disability. The study also concluded that most authors parade abuses and ill-treatment of persons with disabilities without offering solutions to the abuses something which defeats their purpose of writing. The study mainly recommends that the ChiShona language that is used with regard to disabilities should be revised. Old ChiShona terms that communicate negative attitudes towards disabilities should be discarded and new terms that promote positive attitudes and that reflect respect in line with Vumunhu should be coined to replace the derogatory ones. To this end all policies on disability should be implemented absolutely and measures should be put in place to ensure that all published literary works that articulate disability issues promote positive attitudes towards disability and that characters with disabilities are accorded due respect.

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Bahn¹

2010

Prehistoric Rock Art

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King's monuments: identifying ‘formlings’ in southern African San rock paintings

Abstract: The author demonstrates that the complex images of rock art known as formlings depict or evoke the equally complex architecture of ant-hills. Presented in cutaway and full of metaphorical references, they go beyond the image into the imagination.

Cited by 5 publications

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Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species

Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species

Disability representation in selected Zimbabwean Chishona novels and plays.

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