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Marriage as an end or the end of marriage? Change and continuity in Southern African marriages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Pauli --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany Rijk van Dijk --- African Studies Centre, The NetherlandsMarriage used to be widespread and common throughout Southern Africa. However, over the past decades marriage rates have substantially declined in the whole region. Marriage has changed from a universal rite of passage into a conspicuous celebration of middle class... -
The struggle for marriage: elite and non-elite weddings in rural Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Pauli --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany Francois Dawids --- Master of the Post Office, NamibiaNamibian weddings have become lavish and expensive rituals. Recent studies have discussed how these marriage transformations are linked to late capitalism and the spread of modernisation ideologies. Much of this research concludes that marriage has become a middle class institution,... -
The tent versus lobola: marriage, monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rijk van Dijk --- African Studies Centre Leiden, The NetherlandsWhile it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa — including Botswana — weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to consumerist desires of style and glamour, much less is known about how such... -
Marital symbols and the marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being of BaTswana married women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Victoria B Segami --- Optentia Research Area, South Africa Chrizanne Van Eeden --- Optentia Research Area, South AfricaThe study explored marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being, the association between marital symbols, and the association between marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being. A convenience sample of BaTswana married women were participants (n = 366; age range = 30–60 years, SD... -
Beef cuts amongst the Bangwaketse: the case of motlhakanelwa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thapelo Otlogetswe --- , BotswanaThe Setswana wedding is characterised by ritual intensity. Whilst some rituals are changing rapidly, one particular event that has remained relevant is the handling and sharing of the motlhakanelwa beast. Kgomo ya motlhakanelwa, the beast that is shared, is one...