Reinventing the oral word and returning it to the community via technauriture

Kaschula, Russell H; Dlutu, Bongiwe

Title: Reinventing the oral word and returning it to the community via technauriture
Creator: Kaschula, Russell H
Creator: Dlutu, Bongiwe
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67052
Identifier: vital:29024
Identifier: https://books.google.co.za/books?id=6IpwCgAAQBAJ
Description: publisher version
Description: From Introduction: The aim of this article is to situate the importance of orality in rural communities within the paradigm of Technauriture, which is defined below. The chapter will also explore/describe the process of orality supported through community meetings, oral histories, and story-telling, and how it interacts with the recording process facilitated through modern technology, as well as the return of the oral material via technology. These objectives will be pursued as part of empirical data collected at Tshani, an area falling within the in Mankosi tribal authority in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Mankosi’s twelve villages are inhabited by amaXhosa people and is situated in the Ngqeleni district in the former Transkei region. Mankosi is about 76 kilometres away from Mthatha, the major city in that area. These villages are under the Nyandeni Local Municipality and are regarded as very disadvantaged. There is poor sanitation, gravel roads, and few local people have access to electricity. Most of the villagers depend on government support grants. These include Child Support Grants, Old Age Grants, Disability Grants, and Foster-Care Grants. Furthermore, most of the community is involved in small-scale agriculture for survival. People often move, temporarily, from their village to towns in order to gain employment, including domestic work and working on the mines in the mineral rich Gauteng Province. They send cash remittances home to their families. The primary technological devices that people in the village are familiar with would be radio and the cell phone. Even television sets are relatively uncommon.
Format: 14 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Informing Science
Language: English
Relation: At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design
Relation: Kaschula, R.H. and Dlutu, B. (2015) Reinventing the oral word and returning it to the community via technauriture. In: Bidwell, N.J. and Winschiers-Theophilus, H. (Eds) (2015) At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design.
Relation: At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design volume number 377 390 2015 978-1932886993
Rights: Informing Science Press
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