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  1. The Decline of Marriage in Namibia : Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community
    Author: Pauli, Julia
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    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,... more

     

    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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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; African history
    Other subjects: Marriage; Namibia; Elites; Consumption; Kinship; Class; Family; Social Inequality; Postcolonialism; Ethnology; African History; Africa
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (296 p.)
  2. The decline of marriage in Namibia
    kinship and social class in a rural community
    Author: Pauli, Julia
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

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  3. The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community
    Author: Pauli, Julia
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V., Mannheim ; transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Abstract: 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... more

     

    Abstract: 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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