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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.

The Decline of Marriage in Namibia – Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community

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In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly.... Read more

    Publisher: Transcript Verlag
    Publication Date: 08/12/2021
    ISBN13: 9783837643039, 978-3837643039
    ISBN10: 3837643034

    Number of Pages: 340

    Non Fiction , History

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    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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