With the end of apartheid in the country, previously little-used terms have assumed a new prominence, and some existing terms have been renegotiated and assumed new meanings. Scholars of history, politics, language, social sciences, and other fields survey the new significance and meaning of some common terms, and in the process shed considerable light on the nature of post-apartheid South African society. Among the loaded words are development, indigenous knowledge, rights, tradition, truth and reconciliation, and xenophobia. Published in North and South America and the Pacific Rim by Ohio University Press, and in the rest of the world by Jacana Media with the ISBN 978-1-7700-9546-5. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)