Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Since independence, Botswana has developed from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle-income country. In spite of rapid urbanisation and global capitalism, the ideology and philosophy of social interaction and ethics known in Setswana as "botho", has unquestionably survived as a cultural construct. The most pertinent physical manifestations of 'botho" are the "kgotla" (meeting place) and the family home. This article explores the current state of these institutions, once exclusively male and female spaces respectively, comparing how the spatiality of these architectural places has reacted to prosperity and change in rural versus urban settings.
Author: Gerald Steyn
Institution: Tshwane University of Technology
Language: Afrikaans
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1536896251