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Milk and management: breastfeeding as a project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Miriam H.A. Waltz --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIdeas about motherhood among middle-class women in South Africa recently seem to have shifted toward more “intensive mothering,” partly enabled by class privilege resulting from highly unequal labour relations. In this context breastfeeding and other mothering practices are approached as... -
Inclusion of the ‘other’ into the fold: Early mission churches and society in Makweteng, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Fanie (NS) Jansen van Rensburg --- North-West University,‘Like the narrative of culture, the story of the past is [therefore] a selective account of the actual sequence of events, but it is no random selection’ (Hastrup 1992:9). -
Mothering in socioeconomically marginalised communities in South Africa: A conceptual development
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldnæs --- , NorwayFrom a sociopsychological perspective, mothering is variously described in the research literature. This theory synthesis research design study aims to integrate our current understanding of “the familiar” phenomenon of mothering by asking: (i) how mothering is understood across diverse realities... -
Stigma as ‘othering’ among Christian theology students in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Adrian D. Van Breda [d74e19]HIV is a health and developmental crisis that has profoundly challenged the Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa. Responding to stigma and prejudice against HIV and people living with HIV and AIDS has been a major concern of theologians and Christian...
