Unit 3: Language And Identity

Question 1

Define family

Answer 1

Is the immediate group of people who surround us and sustain us in our lives.

We are dependent on family for acquisition of language where within the family a child learns to communicate.

Question 2

What is the importance of a name

Answer 2

They are indicators of who we are and forms part of our identity.

Your name establishes your presence on earth. It is the evidence of your existence

Factors that influence name giving in African culture includes:

Social, economic, cultural circumstances.

Naming according to relationships with family
A) naming pertaining to love and being loved.
B) naming pertaining to joy and gifts.
C) naming pertaining to hatred conflict and gossip.

Question 3

What is our social and personal identity

Answer 3

Social identity: sharing common sets of values and attitudes which is termed culture.

Question 4

Define clans

Answer 4

A group of people United by kinship and descent.

Question 5

What is a totem

Answer 5

It is an object like a wild animal that symbolises a clan.

Totemism is a belief system that recognises that people sharing a totem have an ancestral link.

Question 6

Under ceremonies comment on marriage

Answer 6

In the African sense marriage in not a union only between husband and wife but a union between 2 families.

These can include for Sesotho peopl
magadi ( labola)
Bekwa ( bringing wife over to grooms house)

Question 7

Explore ceremonies around death in African culture

Answer 7

Death isn’t something personal and private it’s a loss that’s shared by the whole community.