Kasena women's critique of gender roles and gender justice through proverbial jesting

Yitah, Helen

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“…Joking is a resource to laugh politically and existentially in the face of disease (Black 2012; Livingston 2012), poverty and violence (Goldstein 2003; Hernann 2016), and histories of enslavement (Carpio 2008). Joking disentangles contemporary identities among histories of modernization and infrastructure (Fouéré 2006; Droney 2014; Degani 2018) and complicates gendered and sexual power (Yitah 2012; Chernoff 2013; Groes-Green 2013).…”

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Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home

Golomski¹

2020

Africa

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This article describes how residents and staff of an eldercare and Alzheimer's home in a small South African town joke with each other. Residents are mostly white and staff mostly black, but there are exceptions, and both groups are multilingual. Jokes between the two groups in the home are racialized, if not sometimes racist, in light of historical and contemporary post-apartheid socio-political and economic circumstances. Yet the relations between these two groups are forged mostly in joking about residents’ diminished cognitive and bodily abilities, staff work, multilingualism and interpersonal ties. In describing joking encounters in three ethnographic scenes, the article traces the ways in which age and race combine in institutionalized relationships of dependency to innovate social theory about human mutuality from the vantage point of multiracial, multicultural, postcolonial Africa.

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Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home

Golomski¹

2020

Africa

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Chapter 1. Introduction

Nassenstein,

Mitchell,

Hollington

2024

Culture and Language Use

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The study of African languages, cultural practices and speakers’ conceptualizations is complex and multilayered. This introductory chapter provides an overview of the goals and scope of the volume. It also offers a short historical survey of anthropological linguistics as well as some reflections on the forms this field of enquiry has taken in relation to African languages. We discuss the structure of the volume, including chapter summaries and intersections, and conclude with some remarks on the future of the anthropological linguistics of Africa.

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Who gets to go to school? Exploring the micro-politics of girls’ education in Ghana

Akuffo

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Kasena women's critique of gender roles and gender justice through proverbial jesting

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home

Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home

Chapter 1. Introduction

Who gets to go to school? Exploring the micro-politics of girls’ education in Ghana

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