Trading Traditional Knowledge: San Perspectives from South Africa, Namibia and Botswana

2009 ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Saskia Vermeylen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Traditional Knowledge

Sharing Traditional Knowledge: Who benefits? Cases from India, Nigeria, Mexico and South Africa

2013 ◽  
pp. 65-93
Author(s):  
Julie Cook Lucas ◽  
Doris Schroeder ◽  
Roger Chennells ◽  
Sachin Chaturvedi ◽  
Dafna Feinholz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Traditional Knowledge

Listening to Oral Traditions in a Re-searching for Praxis in a Non-western Context

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Marie Eskell-Blokland
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Alternative Position

The relevance and appropriateness of western oriented psychology in practice and research is a concern in developing and non-western contexts. It is difficult to address this problem from any alternative position other than the western academic frame if one is situated in a tertiary educational institution in South Africa. In acknowledgement, this article explores the academic context including some local voices from the field in a search for possible congruent research methodologies, which may echo knowledge systems of the traditions of the local context in South Africa and its broader context in the continent. Constraining factors to the development of an appropriate praxis have been suggested to include epistemological issues, western academic hegemony and the perceived elitism of psychology as a discipline. In particular, this article explores the adoption of a narrative literary stance for research in psychology. Literary theory and discussions of the narrative from Bakhtin's writings are drawn on in an attempt to bridge a perceived epistemological divide between local traditional knowledge systems and western academia. From this perspective the oral tradition of Africa is considered at the interface of local and western knowledge around healing /helping traditions.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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