James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2017) Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class. Anthropology Southern Africa, 40 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2332-3256
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Abstract
This article explores how marriage, or its absence, features in relation to the aspirations and obligations of members – especially female members – of South Africa’s new black middle class. In a context where the state and credit have played key roles in the newly financialized arrangements of neoliberalism, it considers how ties that are both conflictual and intimate – bonds that simultaneously distance people from, while creating increasingly intimate connections to, both kinsmen and (prospective) affines - operate within this novel space. Women are set apart from their less fortunate relatives, even as they continue to have to support and remain intimate with them; and divided from partners who expect them to conform to conservative female roles, even as they continue to hold positive views about marital exchanges (and payments) more generally.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rasa20/current |
Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author © CC BY 4.0 |
Divisions: | Anthropology |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2016 12:06 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2024 16:31 |
Projects: | RES-062-23-1290 |
Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68269 |
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