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The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: INITIATION RITUALS
2015 Evaluating adherence to legislation guiding traditional initiation and circumcision amongst male initiates in the eastern Cape province, South Africa
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Download this report2014 Gendered naming and values attached to amaXhosa Amakrwala (graduate-initiates)
This paper is based on a study that explored the gendered naming and values attached to the amaXhosa amakrwala, and the kind of behaviour ex...
2014 Letter to the editor: time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices
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Download this report2012 Gendered naming and values inherent in the Xhosa amakrwala (graduate-initiates): implications for teaching a multicultural class
Rites of passage play a central role in African socialization, demarking the different stages in an individual's development, as well as tha...
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