Neuware -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. 296 pp. Englisch.

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Title: The Decline of Marriage in Namibia
Publisher: Transcript Verlag Jan 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3837643034
ISBN 13: 9783837643039
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
Weight: 463 grams

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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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Julia Pauli, Prof. Dr., ist Professorin f�r Ethnologie an der Universit�t Hamburg.

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