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Title of Journal: Hum Ecol
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Abbravation: Human Ecology
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Authors: Derick Fay
Publish Date: 2012/03/21
Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-328
Abstract
Aston Philander et al 2011 present data from a fascinating important and carefully researched study of local plant knowledge in greater Cape Town illustrating variation in knowledge of medicinal plants a correlation between levels of knowledge and length of urban residence and evidence for the continued transmission of knowledge among recent Xhosaspeaking rural–urban migrants From this they draw the questionable conclusion that these patterns can be attributed to apartheidThe authors take apartheid on the terms of its designers as a policy of ethnic separation while ignoring the consequences of the massive forced displacement which was used to put this policy into effect Nationwide under the Group Areas Act of 1950 which created segregated residential zones more than 35 million people were forcibly displaced between 1962 and 1980 Hallett 1984 316 transforming many rural landscapes into denuded and densely populated slums eg Murray 1992 South Africa and its
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