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- W2286973534 abstract "To the historian great human disasters can be like searchlights on a dark night they can pick out important features which would otherwise remain invisible to the beholder. Contemporary attempts to explain such disasters can provide unparalleled insights into prevailing ideas about the fundamental question of why evil happens in the world andv thus lay bare key elements in the 'mentalite' of the population. However crude or ill-founded such explanations might be, they can furnish valuable and sometimes unique insights into the contemporary mind a person's explanation of disaster can reveal as much about him or her as about the disaster. 'Under the first impact of disaster', notes an authority on millenarianism, 'the victims almost instinctively seek to explain their predicament in terms of pre-existing beliefs.'1 In this response lies an unusual opportunity to plumb the bases of attitudes and beliefs which, under normal conditions, remain unarticulated or hidden. In this sense, the Spanish 'flu epidemic of 1918 was, like the Black Death, 'a stimulus, . . . which exposed the nerve system of ... society'.2 The Spanish Influenza epidemic was the worst natural disaster in South African history. In little over 6 weeks in OctoberNovember 1918 some 300,000 South Africans (about 4-5% of the total population) perished as a result of it.3 In this article a range of popular contemporary explanations of it, both religious and lay, will be examined. Thereafter, some attempt will be made to suggest what these imply about wider attitudes and beliefs in early 20th Century South Africa. At the outset a word about sources is necessary too. This article is based on those opinions which were recorded at the time, together with a large but random collection of views gathered by interview and letter from survivors over sixty years later. These sources disproportionately reflect White male opinion." @default.
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- W2286973534 title "Why Did it Happen? Religious and Lay Explanations of the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa" @default.
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