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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 Netherlands

   Marriage 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...

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   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, Namibia

   Namibian 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,...

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