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The use of medicinal plants to treat mental illness in Kavango East and West regions, Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The thesis examines mental illness as it is understood and treated by traditional healers in Kavango, based on ethnographic data collected over twelve (12) months in three (3) different phases from 2014 to 2016. The thesis ...
Olufuko revisited: female initiation in contemporary Ombadja, Northern Namibia.
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This thesis analyses post-independence Namibian Heritage and identity discourse and its contestations through the contemporary public performance of olufuko. Olufuko is the ritual of female initiation that marks the ...
Acceptability of medical male circumcision among men in Engela district of the Ohangwena region, Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
This study focused on acceptability of medical male circumcision (MMC) in Ohangwena region, Namibia. Since the scaling up of this program in public hospitals, no study was done with a specific focus on men who are the ...
Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: the experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
This thesis explores the shifting cultural identities of young Owambo migrants living in Babilon, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek, Namibia. Through an investigation of their social, cultural and economic ...
Our memories of the liberation war: How civilians in post war Northern Namibia remember the war.
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
This research looks at the gap that exists between public representation and personal narratives of the Namibian liberation war. Having observed the absence of private narratives in the grand national memory, I address the ...
Checking the Kulcha: Local discourse of culture in the Kavango region of Namibia
(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 ...
“Anything about us, without us, is against us”: An ethnography of the genocide reparations and decolonial movements in Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This thesis explores decolonial memory activism and queer activism in Namibia. It
demonstrates how activists have mobilized in intersectional struggles (Becker 2020;
2022) against the structural remnants of colonialism. ...