Browsing Masters Degrees (Anthropology) by Issue Date
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A marginal elite? : a study of African registered nurses in the Greater Durban area.
(1972)No abstract available. -
A study of complex family households among a sample of White families in Durban.
(1978)No abstract available. -
Kinship in a changing society : extra-familial kin relationships among Indians living on a sugar estate in Natal.
(1978)No abstract available. -
The sacred and the profane : the religious and commercial significance of church adornment in the Nazareth Baptist Church of Amos Shembe.
(1994)The relationship between sacred (communal, public) and profane -
Working leather : the fusion of formal and informal industrial relations in a Durban shoe factory.
(1995)The thesis concerns the persistent coupling of formal and informal industrial relations within a particular manufacturing company. At first, the company's formal structure of industrial relations was heavily tempered ... -
The language and culture of the youth in the "Nicaragua" section of Tsakane in Gauteng.
(1996)This paper is based on the youth culture and the language in Tsakane which in situated in Gauteng Province. It uncovers the lifestyle of both young females and males in the area mentioned above. It looks at how "Tsotsitaal" ... -
Male prostitution and HIV/AIDS in Durban.
(2000)This thesis sets out to describe and discuss male street prostitution as it occurs in Durban. The aim is to examine to what degree male street prostitutes are at risk of HIV infection, and make appropriate recommendations ... -
A socio-cultural study of type II diabetes mellitus among the Indian population in Reservoir Hills, Durban.
(2001)Whereas there has been much interest amongst anthropologists in the West in studying diseases such as Type II Diabetes Mellitus, there appears to be a paucity of local anthropological studies that analyse the social ... -
Health seeking behaviour : maternal care giving to preschoolers in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
(2002)This dissertation is an examination of salient factors that influence the health seeking behaviour of mothers/caregivers of pre-school children in Kwangwanase, KwaZuluNatal province, South Africa. Health seeking behaviour ... -
An exploration of the reasons surrounding Indian businesswomen's involvement in home-based business in Shallcross.
(2008)The topic of this study is “An exploration of the reasons surrounding Indian businesswomen’s involvement in home-based businesses in Shallcross, Durban”. The objective of this study was to investigate some of the reasons ... -
Expectations, obligations and goals: an ethnographic study of two HIV/AIDS support groups south of Durban, South Africa.
(2009)A focus on care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the world has become a key discussion in the general HIV/AIDS discourse. This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of two HIV/AIDS support groups ... -
Nigerian migration in central Durban : social adjustment, voluntary association and kinship relations.
(2009)This study examines social adjustment and renegotiation of identity through networking, arrival and settlement of Nigerian migrants in Durban. The focus of the study therefore was based on the interrogation of personal ... -
An exploration of the lives and livelihoods of African professional migrants in institutions of higher learning : the case of University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2009)This study focuses on the lives and livelihoods of foreign African academics at UKZN. The study attempts to unpack the driving forces behind their decision to migrate and why South Africa has become a preferred destination ... -
A life's work : Harriet Bolton and Durban's trade unions, 1944-1974.
(2009)This thesis seeks to document the life and work of veteran Durban trade unionist Harriet Bolton, with a particular focus on the years from 1944 to 1974. Harriet Bolton lived and worked through many of the crucial ... -
Analyzing the inscribed body : an investigation of how the uniform inscribes the body of Zulu-speaking domestics workers in Queensburgh, Durban.
(2010)Domestic workers are commonplace in South African society, with most middle to upper-class homes employing a domestic worker. Recently the area of domestic work in South Africa has gained much needed attention with regard ... -
South African Indians and HIV/AIDS: contextual factors in the experiences of HIV/AIDS in Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)This study set out to examine contextual level drivers of HIV among the South African Indian community of Chatsworth. Very little is currently known about HIV/AIDS among South African Indians. It was from this starting ... -
An exploratory study of the non-kin models of care available to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)Victims of HIV/AIDS are not only those who are infected with the disease, but also those who are affected by it; such as the children of infected parents and relatives, and indeed, all children living in communities in ...