The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South Africa

Healy-Clancy, Meghan

doi:10.1017/asr.2014.45

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“…2.Classic studies on bridewealth (Comaroff 1980; Goody & Tambiah 1973; Sansom 1976) and kinship and social organization (Fortes 1962; Peletz 1995; Radcliffe-Brown & Forde 1950) address varied aspects of marriage. Parkin and Nyamwaya (1987) considers diverse adaptations in African marriage, while Cooper’s (1997) case study foregrounds gender and Healy-Clancy (2014) provides a recent regional overview.…”

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Kinship in Action, Kinship in Flux: Uncertainties and Transformations in Okiek Marriage Arrangement

Kratz¹

2018

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Abstract:For Okiek in Kenya, marriage arrangement is a nexus where transformations of personhood and social relations, changes in land tenure, and shifting state engagements come together in ways that shape individual and family lives as well as communities. This article sketches transformations in Okiek life and marriage arrangement and considers how Okiek have managed interlineage discussions central to marriage arrangement. It explores the social dynamics, evocative rhetorics, uncertainties, and moral imaginations through which people constitute lineages and affinal relations in changing circumstances, and situates these processes within a longer historical trajectory of socioeconomic and demographic change.

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Kinship in Action, Kinship in Flux: Uncertainties and Transformations in Okiek Marriage Arrangement

Kratz¹

2018

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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“…A growing body of research has examined African marriage practices as linked to configurations of kinship and social organization (e.g., Dery, 1987; Fortes, 1962; Gyekye, 1996; Radcliffe-Brown and Forde, 1950) as well as performances and negotiations of bride price (Abdul-Korah, 2014; Comaroff, 1980; Goody and Tambiah, 1973). Other studies have also examined and addressed questions of adaptations and navigations of marital expectations (e.g., Cooper, 1997; Healy-Clancy, 2014; Parkin and Nyamwaya, 1987). The proliferation of research on African marriage economy has not gone without a considerable measure of resistance, contestation, and even contradiction.…”

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Agency, Social Status and Performing Marriage in Postcolonial Societies

Dery

Bawa

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article examines contextually-grounded perspectives on the socio-political significance of marriage in contemporary Ghanaian society. Drawing on qualitative interviews among men and women in northwestern Ghana, this article argues that, beyond historicizing the institution of monogamous marriage, women’s agency in desiring, and navigating marriages are performatively agentic and tied to attaining a myriad of socio-cultural, economic and political capital. Situated within the constrained articulations of participants, our findings alert us to complex negotiations and manoeuvres through which men and women aspire for specific forms of masculinities and femininities within the larger gender hierarchies.

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“…See Sandwith (2019) for more on the satirical tradition and Dhlomo's awareness of the politics of style. Other studies of The Bantu World include Couzens (1976), Switzer and Switzer (1979), Switzer (1997), Peterson (2006), Thomas (2006) and Healy-Clancy (2014).…”

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Reading and roaming the racial city: R. R. R. Dhlomo and <i>The Bantu World</i>

Sandwith¹

2019

Eng in Afr

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Scholarship on the literary inscription of urban space in early twentiethcentury South Africa has tended to focus on Sophiatown and the writers of the 1950s 'Drum generation'. In this reading, the idea of Johannesburg as it emerges in Drum magazine is seen to contrast sharply with earlier literary renditions of the city as a place of vice and moral decay. In this article, I draw attention to an important but little-known precursor to this emergent tradition of writing and claiming the modern city, namely journalist and writer, R. R. R. Dhlomo. As the author of a moralising fable about the depredations of city life, A n A frican Tragedy (1928), Dhlomo is conventionally positioned as one of those writers whose reading of the city would inevitably be surpassed. This perspective ignores the significance of his popular satirical column, "R. Roamer Esq." which appeared in the commercial African weekly The Bantu W orld over a period of ten years. Concerned in particular with the urban and peri-urban environments of late 1930s Johannesburg, the column maps out a detailed urban topography. Using the first-person perspective of an observing and observant urban street-walker/roamer, it calls attention to particular sites of engagement and encounter such as the court room, the train station and the street as well as the more intimate spaces encoding black urban marginality such as the backyard servant's room. In this paper I consider what forms of the metropolis emerge from Roamer's verbal mapping as well as what kinds of city figures, topographies, movements and interactions are inscribed. I argue that the column grants particular significance to the experience,

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The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South Africa

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Kinship in Action, Kinship in Flux: Uncertainties and Transformations in Okiek Marriage Arrangement

Kinship in Action, Kinship in Flux: Uncertainties and Transformations in Okiek Marriage Arrangement

Agency, Social Status and Performing Marriage in Postcolonial Societies

Reading and roaming the racial city: R. R. R. Dhlomo and <i>The Bantu World</i>

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