Marriage and Extra-Marital Sexuality: The Dialectics of Legal Change among the Kgatla

Comaroff, John L.; Roberts, Simon

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“…Nor is this a purely postcolonial phenomenon. Schapera (1943Schapera ( , 1970 has documented the history of vernacular legislation and legal innovation among various Tswana groupings; see also Comaroff and Roberts (1977).…”

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Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology: citizenship and difference in South Africa

Comaroff

2003

Social Identities

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How do nation-states in the twenty-first century, nation-states increasingly forced to come to terms with the ethnic heterogeneity of their citizens ProlegomenonHerewith two fragments from the discourses of the recent South African past.… we Blacks (most of us) execrate ethnicity with all our being.Desmond Tutu, 1981 1 For the Archbishop, in short, 'native' cultural identities were little more than an excrescence of colonial racism.Our duty is to identify and define the main currents of [African] tradition and to incorporate [them] in the modern, technically advanced political entities that we are seeking to construct. Penuell Maduna, 1999 2 For the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, the products of

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Section: Inclusions Exclusions Conclusionmentioning

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Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology: citizenship and difference in South Africa

Comaroff

2003

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“…For similar cases in other parts of Botswana, cf. Comaroff and Roberts 1977;Molokomme 1991;Griffiths 1997. 7.…”

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Social change and sexual mores: a comparison between pre‐20th‐century Norway and 20th‐century Botswana

Helle‐Valle¹

2003

History and Anthropology

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This article compares pre-20th-century Norway and 20th-century Botswana-two settings separated by time and space but sharing a sharp rise in non-nuptial births. The comparison seeks to create a synergetic analytical effect by combining firsthand, experience-near field data from Botswana with solid historical analyses of bastardy in Europe. This radical comparison provides a perspective that highlights the importance of treating "culture" not as a residual category, but as an integral part of everything social. This implies that there is a need not only for a proper sociocultural contextualization of localities, but also for an analysis of extra-local power structures as fundamentally cultural, reflecting not only bureaucratic and political concerns but also values and existential perspectives.

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“…She is supposed to tell her partner how best to arouse her sexually and should communicate this explicitly. While a male model seems to continue and acknowledges what Schapera (1940Schapera ( , 1950 described concerning sexual relations and their expression in the 1930s and 1940s, and what Comaroff and Roberts (1977) also allude to, these counsellors seem to recognise the need for greater assertion, emphasis and explicitness about gendered sexual expectations for today's younger generation. The woman is taught to be patient and impart an understanding to her partner about the possibility of having a joint relational and pleasurable experience of sexual interaction.…”

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Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana

Dijk

2013

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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In African societies where HIV and AIDS are widespread, counselling is being used in an attempt to control people's sexual relationships and has become an important industry. Counselling is centrally placed in many AIDS-related policies in Botswana and is sponsored by both the government and religious organisations. Within the broad spectrum of Christianity, Pentecostal churches are very active. They emphasise the refashioning of relationships by mediating moral imperatives and by engaging with psychological knowledge on personal behaviour and on techniques of counselling in a changing context of sexuality. This paper explores the significance of religious counselling in terms of the disciplining effects concerning personal behaviour and the ways in which this form of communication is generating a wider interest in this society. This is particularly attractive to members of the educated classes who are engaging with Pentecostal counselling as a way of refashioning their domain of intimate relations. Yet, it does not only provide informed ideas on intimate relations--being often one of the proclaimed objectives of counselling - it also produces a communication about intimate matters that is intended to inform a critique of socio-cultural conventions. This is a counter-cultural dynamic of counselling, which has been little noticed in the academic study of counselling practices in Africa.

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Marriage and Extra-Marital Sexuality: The Dialectics of Legal Change among the Kgatla

Cited by 48 publications

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Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology: citizenship and difference in South Africa

Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology: citizenship and difference in South Africa

Social change and sexual mores: a comparison between pre‐20th‐century Norway and 20th‐century Botswana

Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana

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