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  1. “Ons is die stam van die gemeenskap”: rethinking old age and vitality in Nuwerus, Western Cape

    “Ons is die stam van die gemeenskap”: rethinking old age and vitality in Nuwerus, Western Cape

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michellé Pasquallie --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa
    In this paper, I argue against contemporary South African representations of the elderly as people at the fringes of society, as frail, withdrawn from social activity or “invisible.” Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Nuwerus, in the Matzikama Local...