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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1742662026-03-24T05:26:01Z The Decline of Marriage in Namibia Pauli, Julia 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 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. 2026-03-24T05:25:57Z 2026-03-24T05:25:57Z 2021-03-09T10:26:12Z 2019 book ONIX_20210309_9783839443033_11 OCN: 1083627320 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47121 9783837643039 9783839443033 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174266 eng Kultur und soziale Praxis open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47121/7/ts4303_1.pdf transcript Verlag transcript 10.14361/9783839443033 10.14361/9783839443033 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c 9783837643039 9783839443033 transcript 296 Bielefeld open access |
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