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.
| ISBN: | 9783837643039 |
| Publication date: | 8th December 2021 |
| Author: | Julia Pauli |
| Publisher: | Transcript an imprint of transcript |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Kultur Und Soziale Praxis |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology African history Social and cultural history National liberation and independence Cultural studies Poverty and precarity Social mobility Consumerism Ethnic studies Age groups: adolescents |