The decline of marriage in Namibia : kinship and social class in a rural community /

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 ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pauli, Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2019]
Colección:Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Temas:
Marriage > Social aspects > Namibia.
Social classes > Namibia.
Kinship > Namibia.
Mariage > Aspect social > Namibie.
Classes sociales > Namibie.
Parenté > Namibie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Kinship
Marriage > Social aspects
Social classes
Namibia
Africa.
African History.
Class.
Consumption.
Elites.
Ethnology.
Family.
Kinship.
Namibia.
Postcolonialism.
Social Inequality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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