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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Shona"”.
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Eastern Shona : a comparative dialect study
In this paper, the speech patterns of eleven individuals living in the Eastern half of Rhodesia are described and compared. Each individual was selected as being representative of a number of localities described in the map below. The first part of the paper is concerned with the abstraction of …
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Urbanisation, Shona culture and Zimbabwean literature
… on Zimbabwean culture, particularly the Shona culture as it is represented in Zimbabwean literature. My main argument in this thesis is that Zimbabwean literature suggests that urbanisation is harmful and destructive to the Shona culture and the way of life of the Shona people.
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A contextual analysis of compound nouns in Shona lexicography
… and investigates the relationship between Shona terminology development and the culture of the language community for which the terminology is intended. It is a contextual analysis of compound nouns found in Shona terminological dictionaries. The study specifically explores how …
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
… the movement's history, McEwen initiated the Shona sculpture discourse through drawing upon theories about artistic revivals developed by French art historian Henri Focillon as well as the pedagogical techniques of the nineteenth century symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. In doing so, McEwen …
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Conceptions of giftedness and creativity from Africa : the Shona culture's perspective
… to look at giftedness. This study investigated Shona culture of Zimbabwe’s conceptions of giftedness with a view to generate theoretical ideas that inform gifted programming from an African cultural perspective. The study was conducted at two levels using different research designs: a) a …
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Personal name and immortality among Shona people : an African philosophical inquiry
… indicates that naturally, human beings, the Shona people in particular, have a strong desire for immortality, prompting them to find ways to achieve this elusive dream. Previous research has shown much interest in the topic of immortality, but investing insufficient effort to achieve it. This …
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Gender and humour; Complexities of women's image politics in Shona humourous narratives
… is an examination of how gender is expressed in Shona humour. Particular emphasis is paid to how women are presented in Shona humorous narratives. Though 'what a person does in a jest is usually not accorded the same weight of responsibility as what he does seriously, humour provides a means to …
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Religion and ecology : climate change between Christian and Shona religious beliefs and practices
The biggest single threat to ecology and bio-diversity on planet earth is the human induced climate change. Global climate disruption due to the build-up of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere is rising. This study therefore assesses some attitudes for coping with climate change as it …
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The Impact of Traditional Shona Beliefs on HIV/AIDS Intervention Work in Zimbabwe
… students in the rural and peri-urban areas of Mashonaland in Zimbabwe and their tendencies to agree or disagree with traditional Shona attitudes, beliefs and practices as they related to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. A convenience, cluster sample was used to identify the 482 students who participated in …
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The morphology of central Shona : with prefatory chapters on the phonetics and phonology
… a study of the morphology of some of the Central Shona dialect-groups, with two prefatory chapters which deal with Central Shona phonetics and phonology. Of the Central Shona dialect-groups I have taken Zezuru as my standpoint. It is true that the main differences between the dialect-groups lie in …
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An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry
This dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence Zimbabwean history in order to examine the link …
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The attitude of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe to homosexuality: towards a socio-sexological theological investigation
… by the phenomenon of homosexuality among the Shona are so complex in their nature. The widely held assumptions are that firstly, there is no place for gays and lesbian within the Shona culture and secondly, God Forbids. To justify these claims they point to prevalent socio-cultural as well as …
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Towards a Land Conservation Ethic in Zimbabwe: An Ethical and Religio-Cultural Analysis of Land Conservation Policies and Practices in Communal Areas
… Communal Areas (CAs) from the viewpoint of the Shona of Zimbabwe with the aim to formulate a land conservation ethic that motivates people in CAs to promote ecological stability. The Shona in CAs are proximate agents as well as victims of environmental degradation. The imperative to survive in a …
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The role of African traditional religion in the promotion of human rights
… human rights in Africa generally and among the Shona people of Zimbabwe in particular.
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Implementing a distributed approach for speech resource and system development
… each of the tools and develop an ASR system in Shona, an important under-resourced language of Southern Africa. Although unexpected logistical problems complicated the process, we were able to collect a useable Shona speech corpus, and develop the first Automatic Speech Recognition system in …
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'The whole nation on one station'? National FM as a case study of radio for indigenous small linguistic communities in Zimbabwe
… language rights. National FM broadcasts in Shona and Ndebele instead of the minority languages. ZBC management consists of Shona and Ndebele speakers and decision making is done by people who are not minority language speakers. Content analysis of the four selected languages indicates that …
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Allegories of drought and of gardens in the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera
… African traditional narrative, particularly the Shona rungano. Marechera uses Shona orature as a mythic pre-text for the more explicitly allegorical sections of his House of Hunger. Similarly, several of Coetzee's novels allegorise concerns around drought found in novels of settlement in Southern …
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Evaluation of the mental health profile of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in a low-resourced setting: development, translation and validation of patient-reported outcome measures
… The MSPSS was then adapted, translated into Shona, a Zimbabwean native language, and validated. In the final phase, further validation of the ZCCS and the MSPSS was done, and structural equation modelling was used to profile the mental health profile of caregivers. Results: The ZCCS yielded …
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