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Subject(s)

• Marriage—Social aspects [Browse]
• Social classes [Browse]

Series

Kultur und soziale Praxis. [More in this series]

Summary note

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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Language note

In English.

Contents

• List of Tables;
• List of Figures;
• Acknowledgements;
• Introduction;
• Fransfontein Fieldwork;
• History Through Biography;
• Post-Apartheid Livelihoods;
• Contemporary Fransfontein Marriages;
• From Decline to Distinction;
• Forming Families;
• Intimacy Outside Marriage;
• Conclusion;
• Reference List.

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Other title(s)

Decline of Marriage in Namibia

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