Tempora et Mores
Family Values and the Possessions of a Post-Apartheid Countryside
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3199745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hylton White (0000-0002-0587-3973, 1University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 457-479 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006601x00275 |
| OpenAlex | W1973389890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper examines a set of ritual responses to the challenges that post-apartheid South Africa's political economy poses to projects of domestic reproduction in the former Bantustan countryside of Zululand, where unemployment has limited the capacities of young men to create marital households. In the case study on which the paper is based, one such man's misfortunes are connected by divination to the spirit of an older kinsman who disappeared while working as a labor migrant. I argue that this connection and the rituals meant to confront it turn on fraught symbolic relations between the present and two pasts: the past of apartheid migrancy and a projected past of custom. Like the ghosts by which they are manifest, these times trouble domestic life in the present because of contradictory developments forcing unemployed migrants back on the values of private spheres while they undermine the bases of rural households
Divination · Economic growth · Economics · Mores · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Rural area · Sociology · Theology · Unemployment · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · South African History and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |