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The Decline of Marriage in Namibia

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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Hovedforfatter: Pauli, Julia
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: transcript Verlag 2026
Fag:
Marriage
Namibia
Elites
Consumption
Kinship
Class
Family
Social Inequality
Postcolonialism
Ethnology
African History
Africa
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
Online adgang:ONIX_20210309_9783839443033_11
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Summary: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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