The horsemen of Athens / Glenn Richard Bugh

• Record Nr.: UNISA990003700460203316
• Autore: BUGH, Glenn Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton : Princeton University, 1988
• ISBN: 0-691-05530-0
• Descrizione fisica: XVII,271 p. [4] c. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 357.1
• Soggetti: Cavalleria - Atene antica
• Collocazione: HPG 338
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The decline of marriage in Namibia : kinship and social class in a rural community / / Julia Pauli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910477139003321
• Autore: Pauli Julia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld : , : Transcript-Verlag, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations
• Collana: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Disciplina: 390
• Soggetti: Marriage - Social aspects; Social classes
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: List of Tables; -- List of Figures; -- Acknowledgements; -- Introduction; -- Fransfontein Fieldwork; -- History Through Biography; -- Post-Apartheid Livelihoods; -- Contemporary Fransfontein ; Marriages; -- From Decline to Distinction; -- Forming Families; -- Intimacy Outside Marriage; -- Conclusion; -- Reference List.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.