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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 ma...
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oapen-20.500.12657-471212022-01-25T10:58:44Z The Decline of Marriage in Namibia Pauli, Julia Marriage Namibia Elites Consumption Kinship Class Family Social Inequality Postcolonialism Ethnology African History Africa bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTR National liberation & independence, post-colonialism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJH African history 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. 2021-03-09T10:26:12Z 2021-03-09T10:26:12Z 2019 book ONIX_20210309_9783839443033_11 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47121 eng Kultur und soziale Praxis application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ts4303_1.pdf https://www.transcript-verlag.de/ transcript Verlag transcript Verlag b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c transcript Verlag 296 Bielefeld open access |
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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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