(2002). The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution' African Studies: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 99-120.

The social system of the Zulus

The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution'

1 Characteristics of South African Biomes.- 2 Fire Regimes in the Biomes of South Africa.- 3 Man's Historical and Traditional Use of Fire in Southern Africa.- 4 An Historical Review of Research on Fire in South Africa.- 5 Fire in Fynbos.- 6 Fire in Grassland.- 7 Fire in Savanna.- 8 Fire in Forest.- 9 Fire Behaviour.- 10 Effects of Fire on Vegetation Structure and Dynamics.- 11 The Effect of Fire on Forage Production and Quality.- 12 Effects of Fire Regime on Faunal Composition and Dynamics.- 13 The Responses and Survival of Organisms in Fire-Prone Environments.- 14 The Effect of Fire on Soil and Microclimate.- 15 The Effect of Fire on Water Yield.- 16 The Use of Fire as a Management Tool.- Concluding Remarks. Fire Research - a Perspective for the Future.- References.- Index of Plants and Animals (Scientific).- Index of Plants and Animals (Common).

Ecological effects of fire in South African ecosystems

Although the literature on Africa increasingly adopts a gendered approach to sexual and reproductive health issues, few studies have addressed adolescent pregnancy and parenthood in such a framework. This article examines links between gender ideology or gender roles and the social impact of adolescent childbearing in the lives of rural and urban adolescents in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa. It employs a triangulated research methodology (focus-group discussions, narrative role playing and discussions, and questionnaires and in-depth interviews) to inform an analysis of adolescents' notions of male and female gender ideals. This analysis forms the basis for an exploration of the potential influence of adolescent childbearing on young peoples' lives and factors that shape their sexual and reproductive well-being. Results indicate that gender ideals are grounded in traits that reinforce poor sexual negotiation dynamics and behavioral double standards and that place adolescents at risk for early pregnancy and other sexual and reproductive health complications. Overall, adolescent parenthood is viewed negatively by participants of both sexes because it compromises personal, professional, and financial aspirations. Compared with its effect on boys, parenthood has a disproportionate (and highly negative) impact on girls that is directly linked to gender-based inequities. The article addresses the research and policy implications of these findings.

How Gender Roles Influence Sexual and Reproductive Health Among South African Adolescents

Abstract Total area of the dwelling floors and total population of the largest settlements of eighteen societies show a loglog regression which suggests that the population of a prehistoric settlement can be very roughly estimated as of the order of one-tenth the floor area in square meters.

Floor Area and Settlement Population

What, at first glance, could be less close, less akin than drama and reflection? Drama demands a stage, actors, a heightened atmosphere, spectators, the smell of the crowd, the roar of the greasepaint. Reflection is at least one of the things one does with one's solitude. But to counter this opposition an anthropologist tends to think in terms not of solitary but of plural reflection, or, much better, plural reflexivity, the ways in which a group or community seeks to portray, understand, and then act on itself. Essentially, public reflexivity takes the form of a performance. The languages through which a group communicates itself to itself are not, of course, confined to talking codes: they include gestures, music, dancing, graphic representation, painting, sculpture, and the fashioning of symbolic objects. They aredramatic, that is literally "doing" codes. Public reflexivity is also concerned with what I have called "liminality." This term, literally "being-on-a-threshold," means a state or process which is betwixt-and-between the normal, daytoday cultural and social states and processes of getting and spending, preserving law and order, and registering structural status. Since liminal time is not controlled by the clock it is a time of enchantment when anything might, even should, happen. Another way of putting it would be to say that the liminal in socio-cultural process is similar to the subjunctive mood in verbs - just as mundane socioReproduced by permission of the author and of the publisher from Performance in postmodern culture (Madison, Wisconsin: Coda Press, Inc., 1977,. The section heads (except for the last) have been added by the editor.

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The social system of the Zulus

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The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution'

Ecological effects of fire in South African ecosystems

How Gender Roles Influence Sexual and Reproductive Health Among South African Adolescents

Floor Area and Settlement Population

Frame, Flow and Reflection: Ritual and Drama as Public Liminality

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