- Title
- Technauriture as a platform to create an inclusive environment for the sharing of research
- Creator
- Kaschula, Russell H
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67005
- Identifier
- vital:29016
- Identifier
- http://books.openedition.org/obp/4209
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- From Introduction: This chapter examines the importance of orality in rural communities using the paradigm of technauriture, which describes how technology, auriture2and literature intersect to transmit educational and other messages within communities. It uses oral literary research that has been conducted in the Eastern Cape region to show how technology can aid the data collection process, and how this technology can return such information to the communities from which it comes. This chapter also explores the process of orality fostered by community meetings, oral histories, oral poetry, beadwork, music and story-telling, and how this culture interacts with the recording process facilitated by modern technology. It will also consider the return of recorded oral material to educational and archival circles. These objectives are pursued using empirical data collected at Tshani near Port St. Johns, an area falling within the Mankosi tribal authority in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. They are also considered in relation to the work of oral poet, Bongani Sitole who lived in Mqhekezweni village near Qunu and Mthatha, as well as against the backdrop of research conducted in Keiskammahoek, and at the Broster Beadwork Collection, now housed at Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Open Book Publishers
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa, Kaschula, R. H. (2017) Technauriture as a Platform to Create an Inclusive Environment for the Sharing of Research. In: Merolla, D., & Turin, M. (Eds.) 2017. Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. Retrieved from http://books.openedition.org/obp/4192, Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa volume number 41 59 2017 9782821897304
- Rights
- Open Book Publishers
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Open Book Publishers Open Access Statement (http://books.openedition.org/obp/)
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