Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Akuupa, Michael Uusiku"
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Checking the Kulcha: Local discourse of culture in the Kavango region of Namibia
Akuupa, Michael Uusiku (University of Westen Cape, 2006)This thesis makes an ethnographic contribution to the anthropological debates about the contested nature of ‘culture’ as a central term in the discipline. It examines discourses as tools that create, recreate, modify and ... -
The formation of 'national culture' in post- apartheid Namibia: a focus on state sponsored cultural festivals in Kavango region
Akuupa, Michael Uusiku (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This dissertation investigates colonial and postcolonial practices of cultural representations in Namibia. The state sponsored Annual National Culture Festival in Namibia was studied with a specific focus on the Kavango ...