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Closeup view of the Karel Landman Monument

  • Authors: Reynolds, Rex
  • Subjects: Karel Landman Monument -- Alexandria District -- Eastern Cape Eastern Cape Frontier Karel Landman Voortrekker Monument (South Africa) Butler, Guy, 1918-2001
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:21939 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/14568 , PIC/M 5276
  • Description: The Karel Landman Monument in the Sundays River Valley Rural, Eastern Cape, was designed by Gerard Moerdyk and built by the Lupini Brothers. It was unveiled on 16 December 1939 by W A L Landman. It honours Karel Landman who farmed in this area until 1837 when he became a leader in the Great Trek. He led a party of 180 Trekkers and their servants on a trek of 885 kilometres into Natal where he was prominent in several battles with the Zulus and he was second in command of the Boer forces at the pivotal battle of Blood River. The commemoration of Karel Landman and his trek, in this 3m globe with an ox wagon traversing it, was an initiative of the National Party and the councils of the Dutch Reformed Church in two neighbouring villages, Alexandria and Paterson. Legend has it that the councils could not agree which village should 'host’ the monument, so it was placed on this remote koppie overlooking the surrounding countryside, between the two villages. , F G Butler (donor)
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Transport teams and oxen watering in the Velch River - on the march to Pretoria

Hunters sitting next to an ox wagon in the field

  • Subjects: Hunting -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fishing -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31544 , vital:23957 , PIC/M 6433 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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Hunters with guns and sticks on an ox wagon

  • Subjects: Hunting -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fishing -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31607 , vital:23964 , PIC/M 6438 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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Myrtle and Vida about 1936

  • Date: 1936
  • Subjects: Workman family -- Photographs , Workman, Vida -- Photographs Workman, Myrtle -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/48971 , vital:25849 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/M 7039
  • Description: Photographs of Myrtle and Vida Workman around 1936.
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  • Date Issued: 1936

South Asian diasporic women's short fiction: the South African contribution

  • Authors: Naidu, Samantha
  • Date: 2007
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article , text
  • Identifier: vital:26376 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54037 , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
  • Description: Although Indian Women S Short Fiction Has Always Enjoyed Equal Importance And Popularity As Their Novels, Very Little Critical Attention Has Been Paid To It So Far. Indian Women S Short Fiction Seeks To Fulfil This Long Felt Need. It Puts Together Fifteen Perceptive And Analytical Articles By Scholars Across The World. The Articles, Which Are Focussed On Native Indian Writing As Well As Diasporic Short Fiction, Deal With Such Interesting Literary Issues As Construction Of Femininity, Disablement And Enablement, Bengali Heritage, Hybrid Identities, Nostalgia, Representation Of The Partition Violence, Tradition And Modernity, And Cultural Perspectivism.
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  • Date Issued: 2007

Jazz Band at the Open OHR Festival

  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Beckett, Harry , Jazz , Jazz musicians , Open OHR Festival
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  • Identifier: vital:13881 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001784 , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Beckett, Harry , Jazz , Jazz musicians
  • Description: Colour photo of a Jazz Band at the Open ORH Festival in Mainz (Germany) in 1986. From left to right: Chris McGregor playing keyboards, a musician, a bass guitarist, a percussionist, an electric guitarist, a double-bassist, a singer, Harry Beckett playing trumpet and an alto saxophonist. The photo has been taken from the audience.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

Frederick William Green, Principal Clerk in the office of the Secretary for Agriculture

  • Date: 1905?
  • Subjects: Green, Frederick William -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/37365 , vital:24654 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/S 4914
  • Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Frederick William Green, Principal Clerk in the office of the Secretary for Agriculture, as copied from the South African Who's Who 1908.
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  • Date Issued: 1905?

King Williams Town

  • Subjects: King William's Town (South Africa) -- History -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/18792 , vital:22383 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/M 2719_39
  • Description: Album of "Photographs of South Africa", compiler and photographer not stated. Photos covering Easter and Western Cape, Natal, Free State, Rivers, Transport, Ostriches and Black people. [1880-1883] , Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. (donor)
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View of Pietermaritzburg from Town Hall Tower shewing Fort Napier

  • Authors: Middlebrook, J E
  • Subjects: Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) -- Photographs , Fort Napier (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31074 , vital:23912 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/A 2716_16
  • Description: View of Pietermaritzburg from Town Hall Tower showing Fort Napier which was erected in 1843 troops occupied Fort Napier till 1914.In 1918 it was handed over to union government for use as a Mental hospital. . , Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. (donor)
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LCT in mixed-methods research: evolving an instrument for quantitative data

  • Authors: Maton, Karl , Howard, Sarah Katherine
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66479 , vital:28954
  • Description: publisher version , A mantra of social science declares a fundamental divide between the quantitative and the qualitative that involves more than methods. According to this depiction, the two methodologies are intrinsically associated with a range of ontological, epistemological, political and moral stances. Each of these constellations of stances is strongly integrated, such that choice of method is held to involve a series of associated choices. Each constellation is also strongly opposed to the other, along axes labelled positivism/constructivism, scientism/humanism, conservative/critical, old/new, among others. These ‘binary constellations’ (Maton 2014b: 148-70) offer a forced choice between two tightly-knit sets of practices that are portrayed as jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive. So widespread is this methodological binarism that many scholars ‘are left with the impression that they have to pledge allegiance to one research school of thought or the other’ (Johnson and Onwuegbuzie 2004: 14). A competing mantra disclaims this divide. Distinctions underpinning the picture of binary constellations have been regularly dissolved. Arguments that one deals with numbers, the other with words, one studies behaviour, the other reveals meanings, one is hypothetico-deductive, the other inductive, one enables generalization, the other explores singular depth, among others, have been repeatedly undermined (e.g. Hammersley 1992). Indeed, the death of the divide is frequently declared. Calls for ‘transcending’ (Salomon 1991) or ‘getting over’ (Howe 1992) the quantitative-qualitative debate and arguments for mixed-methods research (Brannen 2005; Johnson and Onwuegbuzie 2004) are recurrent. These calls highlight how the methodologies offer complementary insights for research and demonstrate that eschewing either methodology on principle is unnecessarily renouncing potential explanatory power. However, the call to mixed-methods research remains more breached than honoured. Methodological monotheism remains dominant – studies of education and society typically adopt either quantitative or qualitative methods. As we shall discuss, the former is typically associated with the influence of psychology and the latter is often claimed as emblematic of sociology. Studies utilizing the sociological frameworks on which Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) builds have echoed this pattern by overwhelmingly adopting qualitative methods. Accordingly, Part I of this volume begins by exploring how LCT concepts can be enacted in qualitative research (Chapter 2). However, LCT is not limited to one methodology and a growing body of mixed-methods research is engaging with both qualitative and quantitative data. In this chapter we illustrate how this research works and the gains it offers. For resolutely qualitative researchers, the prospect of reading anything quantitative, even in mixed-methods research, may be unenticing. However, it would be a mistake to pass over this chapter, for several reasons. First, we offer insights into research practice that might surprise such scholars. As Bourdieu argued, ‘methodological indictments are too often no more than a disguised way of making a virtue out of necessity, of feigning to dismiss, to ignore in an active way, what one is ignorant of in fact’ (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992: 226). Our aim is to contribute towards removing this reason for one-sidedness. We show, for example, how quantitative methods confound their common portrayal as neat, straightforward and procedural; they are complex and involved and require craft work and judgement. Our focus is, therefore, more practical than metaphysical. We shall not enter seemingly endless debates over whether the ‘quantitative-qualitative divide’ refers to paradigms, epistemologies or methods and whether these are complementary or incommensurable. Rather, we discuss the development of an instrument for enacting LCT concepts in quantitative methods and ground this account in real examples of mixed-methods research. Specifically, we trace the evolution of an instrument for embedding specialization codes within questionnaires through its creation for research into school music and then its development within studies of educational technology. Given that mathematics can be off-putting to the noviciate, we minimize discussion of statistics and explain measures in lay terms. Second, this is much more than a story of quantitative methods. The evolution of the instrument both shaped qualitative methods and was shaped by the data they generated, offering insights into how qualitative research can more fully engage with LCT. Its development also involved intimate dialogue with theory that shed fresh light on LCT itself, making explicit the ‘gaze’ embodied by the framework (Chapter 1, this volume). We shall highlight wider lessons learned about the craft of enacting LCT in research, lessons of direct relevance for studies using any methods. Third, we shall illustrate the explanatory power offered by using quantitative and qualitative methods together, such as providing a robust basis for detailed findings, identifying wider-scale trends typically inaccessible to qualitative methods that provide a context for their data, and facilitating knowledge-building through greater replicability across contexts and over time. For example, the technology studies built directly on the music studies to cumulatively develop the instrument and generated probably the largest data set in code sociology: 97,386 responses (83,937 student and 13,449 staff surveys) on the organizing principles of academic subjects, alongside 20 in-depth qualitative case studies of secondary schools. This offers a foundation of substantial breadth and depth for making claims about knowledge practices across the disciplinary map and a firm basis on which future research into disciplinary differences can build. Moreover, the quantitative instrument itself can be adopted or adapted in new studies, further enabling cumulative knowledge-building. Given these substantive, methodological and theoretical gains, it is perhaps surprising there exists any temptation to skip past discussion of mixed-methods research. This reflects the methodological character of the fields in which LCT emerged. We thus begin by briefly illustrating how the sociological frameworks on which the theory builds have become distanced from quantitative methods.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Bathurst Street Grahamstown, circa 1920s

Doreen Grigg and her husband with their children, including daughter Patricia

  • Subjects: Class reunions -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs Grahamstown Teachers' Training College (South Africa) -- Photographs
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  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/24395 , vital:23231 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/A 2897_051
  • Description: Photograph of Doreen Grigg and her husband with their children, including daughter Patricia , Leila Kerr (Linington) (Donor)
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Formal portrait of Henry Hall, Esq, R.E.D

  • Authors: York, F.
  • Date: 1861
  • Subjects: Hall, Henry, 1815-1882 -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/50331 , vital:25978 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/M 52
  • Description: Formal portrait of Henry Hall, in the employ of the British Government Service, a Foreman of Works in the Royal Engineer Department. Hall served on the Eastern Frontier during the Frontier Wars of 1846 and 1851-52.
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  • Date Issued: 1861

Plan of properties bounded by High Street [Roberts Street], African Street, [Cawood Street] and [Spring Street] being Block F of the lands granted to the municipality, giving Lot number and specific details of Lot 63

A survey of South African crime fiction : critical analysis and publishing history

  • Authors: Naidu, Samantha
  • Date: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , text
  • Identifier: vital:26344 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53878 , https://www.isbs.com/products/9781869143558 , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
  • Description: Is crime fiction the new 'political novel' in South Africa? Why did the apartheid censors disapprove of crime fiction more than any other genre? Crime fiction continues to be a burgeoning literary category in post-apartheid South Africa, with more new authors, titles and themes emerging every year. This book is the first comprehensive survey of South African crime fiction. It provides an overview of this phenomenally successful literary category, and places it within its wider social and historical context. The authors specialise in both literary studies and print culture, and this combination informs a critical analysis and publishing history of South African crime fiction from the nineteenth century to the present day. The book provides a literary lineage while considering different genres and sub-genres, as well as specific themes such as gender and eco-criticism. The inclusion of a detailed bibliography of crime fiction since the 1890s makes A Survey of South African Crime Fiction an indispensable teaching and study aid
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  • Date Issued: 2017

Noorsveld, 30 km south of Jansenville

Map of Africa, 1794

  • Subjects: Africa , Africa -- Maps
  • Language: English
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:13969 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017489 , CD 55 , MS 10 542 , PIC/SL 4804
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Kraggakamma, Port Elizabeth

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