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A violation of tapu could have dire consequences, including the death of the offender through sickness or at the hands of someone affected by the offence. In earlier times food cooked for a person of high rank was tapu, and could not be eaten by an inferior. A chief's house was tapu, and even the chief could not eat food in the interior of his ...
Moerdijk decided to adopt the Cape Dutch style, a type of traditional house common among Boer and Afrikaans descendants in South Africa. [2] However, he adapted this style to a more luxurious context so that the place could express the charm and power of the Union of South Africa. Jan Smuts was the first head of government to settle in this ...
Community House (Louisville, Mississippi), NRHP-listed Fort Sumner Community House , Fort Sumner, New Mexico; NRHP-listed Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue and Community House , New York City
This is a list of the heritage sites in Cape Town's CBD, the Waterfront, and the Bo-Kaap as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. [1] [2]For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, please see the entries at the end of the list.
The first section of the book concerns a San community's journey set roughly in 13,000 BC. In Wilbur Smith's novel The Burning Shore (an instalment in the Courtneys of Africa book series), the San people are portrayed through two major characters, O'wa and H'ani; Smith describes the San's struggles, history, and beliefs in great detail.
However, this site was not where the Out of Africa was filmed, as the pictures were taken in Blixen's first farmhouse, Mbagathi, nearby, where she lived between 1914 and 1917. Nowadays the museum is situated in the upscale Nairobi suburb named " Karen ," which was created by the land re-parceling of the coffee farm, after Blixen's return to ...
There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves
A Tammari house. The thatched structure in the middle of the roof (left) covers sleeping quarters, whereas the one on the right is a granary. The cylindrical structures in the walls are used for storage or for keeping small livestock.