The Decline of Marriage in Namibia : Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community / Julia Pauli.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783839443033
- Kinship -- Namibia
- Marriage -- Social aspects -- Namibia
- Social classes -- Namibia
- Women -- Namibia
- Africa
- African History
- Class
- Consumption
- Elites
- Ethnology
- Family
- Kinship
- Namibia
- Postcolonialism
- Social Inequality
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Africa
- African History
- Class
- Consumption
- Elites
- Ethnology
- Family
- Kinship
- Namibia
- Postcolonialism
- Social Inequality
- 390
- HQ1804 .P38 2019
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Frontmatter -- Content -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- Fransfontein fieldwork -- History through biography -- Postapartheid livelihoods -- PART II -- Contemporary Fransfontein marriages -- From decline to distinction -- PART III -- Forming families -- Intimacy outside marriage -- Conclusion -- Reference list
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In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when only few marry. Although marriage rates have dropped sharply, the value of weddings and marriages has not. To marry has become an indicator of upper-class status that less affluent people aspire to. Using the appropriation of marriage by a rural Namibian elite as a case study, the book tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in post-apartheid Namibia.
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