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  title info:
    title: Exploring emancipation of indigenous research methods
    sub title: a presentation of a case study of AmaBomvane
  name:
    name part: Mji, Gubela
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Observation is one of the Indigenous research methods (IRMs) used by Indigenous peoples to interpret their world and to contribute to the development of local Indigenous knowledge systems. These IRMs require established research methodologies such as qualitative enquiry for affirmation. This case study aims to explore how IRMs can be affirmed and emancipated by using established research methodologies. The study setting is in KwaBomvane in Elliotdale, a rural area in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The gatekeeper of this area proposed that religion, education, and biomedicine had lowered the health and well-being of their villages. This concerned me as a researcher in the area because I expected the three areas to improve health indicators. Despite this concern, I continued with research that explored the health problems managed by older Xhosa women in their home situation with a focus on Indigenous knowledge systems. I collected data using qualitative research methods in four focus group discussions with 36 purposefully selected older Xhosa women. I conducted Sixteen in-depth interviews with Indigenous health knowledge women experts and their family members to affirm findings. Biographies that foregrounded the life plots of health and illness of AmaBomvane emerged from narrative analysis and analysis of narratives. The study outcome affirmed the observation of the gatekeeper because the older Xhosa women were able to attest that the health status of AmaBomvane was poor and that the three areas mentioned by the gatekeeper seem to have contributed to this poor health status.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Prof Gubela Mji.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Health and hygiene
    geographic: South Africa
    geographic: Eastern Cape
  subject:
    topic: Ethnoscience
  subject:
    topic: Recherche
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Ethnosciences
  classification: RA552.S6 M55 2024
  classification: 362.10968
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research
  identifier: 9781529690378
  identifier: 1529690374
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 240320
    record change date: 20240923170355.0
    record identifier: in00005495163
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng