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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Khoesan"”.
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A unity hypothesis for the southern African Khoesan languages
… KHOE, JU and UJ -T AA groups of southern African Khoesan, by means of the first full-scale application of a conventional comparative approach. It is shown in the first stage that there are repeated cross-SAK resemblances in the morphology of those verbs most frequently enlisted for grammatical …
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Dental morphology and variation across holocene Khoesan people of Southern Africa
Dental analyses of the Holocene Khoesan populations of southern Africa can provide insight into the biological evolution of an anthropologically important people. There have been many studies of dental variation in Holocene populations of Europe and the Americas, but few of African populations. …
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An assessment of the health status of late 19th and early 20th century Khoesan
… the arrival of the Dutch colonists in the Cape, Khoesan populations were subjected to severe political and economical marginalization and often fell prey to racial conflict and genocide. These circumstances persisted until the early 20th century, during which an astonishing number of Khoesan …
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Characterization of Genomic Variation Related to Hair and Skin Phenotypes in the Khoesan Speakers of Southern Africa
The Khoesan speakers are indigenous peoples in southern Africa, consisting of many different ethnic groups that do not speak Bantu languages. They are foragers with a complex history: they descended from the earliest diversification event for Homo sapiens, interacted with neighboring populations …
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A quantitative assessment of variation in Holocene Khoesan crania from South Africa's western, south-western, southern and south-eastern coasts and coastal forelands
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 274-325).
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Material realities, belief and aspiration in the later 19th century rock engravings of the Williston District of the Karoo
… change and continuity among the 19th century Khoesan in the Karoo who were the descendants of precolonial hunter-gatherer and pastoralist populations. It looks at how local Karoo dwellers experienced and possibly mediated global impacts through 'older' cultural practice and belief. These …
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The Realisation of syntactic principles in non-standard Afrikaans: the correspondence of Jan Jonker Afrikaner (1820-1889)
… This dissertation challenges the idea that the Khoesan Languages were of no or little influence in the development of Afrikaans. The linguistic analysis of the nineteenth-century data reveal that the developments which took place cannot be attributed to one single origin. It is demonstrated that …
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The Realisation of syntactic principles in non-standard Afrikaans: the correspondence of Jan Jonker Afrikaner (1820-1889)
… This dissertation challenges the idea that the Khoesan Languages were of no or little influence in the development of Afrikaans. The linguistic analysis of the nineteenth-century data reveal that the developments which took place cannot be attributed to one single origin. It is demonstrated that …
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The Realisation of syntactic principles in non-standard Afrikaans: the correspondence of Jan Jonker Afrikaner (1820-1889)
… This dissertation challenges the idea that the Khoesan Languages were of no or little influence in the development of Afrikaans. The linguistic analysis of the nineteenth-century data reveal that the developments which took place cannot be attributed to one single origin. It is demonstrated that …
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The Realisation of syntactic principles in non-standard Afrikaans: the correspondence of Jan Jonker Afrikaner (1820-1889)
… This dissertation challenges the idea that the Khoesan Languages were of no or little influence in the development of Afrikaans. The linguistic analysis of the nineteenth-century data reveal that the developments which took place cannot be attributed to one single origin. It is demonstrated that …
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An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis
… understood. These people were primarily of Khoesan descent, but their large stone-built stock pens attest to the presence of substantial herds of livestock, very likely for trade. This region was too dry for agriculture, although we know that there were links with Tswana-speaking …
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Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)
… to two widely divergent groups of languages, the Khoesan and Indo-European, respectively. The first motive is to investigate how and why new words are created from existing ones. The reading and data interpretation seeks an understanding of word formation and an overview of semantic …
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Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town
… the time spent together, these claimants of a KhoeSan identity presented a permeating Rastafari sense of belonging and reconnected with their Indigenous identity through their work with herbs. The research participants challenged hegemonic perspectives on identity, culture, health, and …
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Mitochondrial genetic variation in the evolution of humans and metabolism of cancer
… side of Southern Africa, absorbing indigenous Khoesan lineages to their present day home resulting in the Southern Bantu of today. This study also identified new mtDNA haplogroups, many of which are among the earliest diverging lineages. This study contributes to the global mitochondrial …
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Population variation within the Iron Age of southern Africa: an assessment using dental anthropological and cranio-mandibular metric techniques
… differences within this complex (between Khoesan and Iron Age peoples) as well as variation over time (between Iron Age peoples and modern Bantuspeakers). This indicates that, while farmers within the Iron Age of southernmost Africa are generally homogenous, there are important differences …
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Leveraging Whole Genome Sequences to Compare Mutational Mechanism and Identify Medically Relevant Variation in African versus Non-African Descend Populations
… diaspora ethnic groups, particularly Bantu and Khoesan ethnics have gene diversity, high proportion of derived allele at low minor allele frequency (0.0 − 01) and the highest proportion of pathogenic variants within HIV, TB, Malaria, Sickle-Cell disease, while non-African ethnic groups including …