Lobola Bridewealth In Contemporary Southern Africa

Author : Lovemore Togarasei,Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030595234

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Lobola (Bridewealth) in Contemporary Southern Africa by Lovemore Togarasei,Ezra Chitando Pdf

This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as ‘bridewealth’) is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of late there have been voices questioning its relevance in contemporary times while others vehemently defend the practice. This book brings together a range of scholars from different academic disciplines, national contexts, institutions, genders, and ethnic backgrounds to debate the relevance of lobola in contemporary southern African communities for gender equality.

Author : Lovemore Togarasei,Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030595242

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Lobola (Bridewealth) in Contemporary Southern Africa by Lovemore Togarasei,Ezra Chitando Pdf

This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as 'bridewealth') is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of late there have been voices questioning its relevance in contemporary times while others vehemently defend the practice. This book brings together a range of scholars from different academic disciplines, national contexts, institutions, genders, and ethnic backgrounds to debate the relevance of lobola in contemporary southern African communities for gender equality.

Author : Sara C. Mvududu
Publisher : Weaver Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113669886

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Lobola by Sara C. Mvududu Pdf

Extrait de la couverture : "The practice of paying lobola is comon in all the seven WLSA countries ... This situation highlights a common feature of all systems of marriage in these countries - the patriarchal ideology where men dominate the marriage process and control the decision-making power through the practice of lobola. This study examines the current situation of lobola in the seven WLSA countries and exposes yet another example of how a tradition which originally elevated the status of a woman has transformed into a way of disempowering her. The commercialisation of lobola has stripped it of its symbolism and reduced it to yet another way of controlling women's reproductive rights."

Author : Aeneas S. Chigwedere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Bride price
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039372276

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Lobola--the Pros and Cons by Aeneas S. Chigwedere Pdf

Author : Obert Bernard Mlambo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031407543

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The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa by Obert Bernard Mlambo Pdf

Author : Ezra Chitando,Eunice Kamaara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031129384

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Values, Identity, and Sustainable Development in Africa by Ezra Chitando,Eunice Kamaara Pdf

This book contends that Africa’s sustainable development must be built on African identity and values. Contributors reflect of the role of values in Africa’s effort to overcome poverty, the focus of SDG 1. The volume reflects on how indigenous values such as Ubuntu constitute a critical resource in addressing poverty. It reiterates the importance of positioning the response to poverty in Africa on the continent’s own, home grown values. Contributors also interrogate how values such as integrity, hard work, tolerance, solidarity, respect and others serve to position Africa strategically to overcome poverty. The volume focuses on how values can help Africa to overcome challenges such as corruption, violence, intolerance, competitive ethnicity, xenophobia, misplaced priorities and others. It provides fresh and critical reflections on the role of values and identity in anchoring Africa’s development in the light of SDG 1.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Munyaradzi Nyakudya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031124662

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Chihera in Zimbabwe by Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Munyaradzi Nyakudya Pdf

Zimbabwean social media has been awash with images of a woman character, spirit, or concept called Chihera. Traditionally, a woman descending from the Mhofu (Eland) lineage/totem is known as Chihera. In the cumulative tradition of the Shona (a Zimbabwean ethnic group), Chihera is a fiercely independent, assertive, free spirited, and no nonsense woman. This volume seeks to deepen reflections on the Chihera phenomenon in the context of the search for gender justice in Zimbabwe and Africa. The authors reflect on how this radical indigenous feminist ethic circulating on social media can animate the quest for Zimbabwean and African women’s full liberation from patriarchy and all oppressive forces. They grapple with the issue of generating culturally sensitive theories and approaches to galvanize the struggle for African women’s liberation in post-colonial settings. Second, they locate the Chihera mystique in the context of the practical struggle for women’s empowerment. Third, the volume illustrates how the Chihera phenomenon could be utilized for gender justice in Zimbabwe and beyond.

Author : Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000485493

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Naming and Othering in Africa by Sambulo Ndlovu Pdf

This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self. Drawing on global and African examples, but with particular reference to Zimbabwe, the author demonstrates how names are used in class, race, ethnic, national, gender, sexuality, religious and business struggles in society as weapons by ingroups and outgroups. Using Othering theory as a framework, the chapters explore themes such as globalised names and their demonstration of the other; onomastic erasure in colonial naming and the subsequent decoloniality in African name changes; othering of women in onomastics and crude and sophisticated phaulisms in the areas of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability and sexuality. Highlighting social power dynamics through onomastics, this book will be of interest to researchers of onomastics, social anthropology, sociolinguistics and African culture and history.

Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015000642192

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Wives for Cattle by Adam Kuper Pdf

Author : Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110759372

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Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective by Sambulo Ndlovu Pdf

This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.

Author : Elena Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000600216

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Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa by Elena Moore Pdf

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational power. Drawing on a range of original empirical studies, this book provides important new insights into the realities of regulating personal relationships in complex social fields in which customary practices are negotiated. This book not only adds to a fuller understanding of how customary practices are experienced in contemporary South Africa, but it also contributes to a large discussion about the experiences, impact and ongoing negotiations around changing structures of gender and generational power and rights in contemporary South Africa. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy and African Studies.

Author : Jonas Darko-Yeboah, Ph.D.,Tafadzwa Nyandoro
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781525513381

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Bride Price by Jonas Darko-Yeboah, Ph.D.,Tafadzwa Nyandoro Pdf

When Kofi and Pam, a young couple living in urban Calgary, got engaged, they decided to honour their African traditions, travelling to Ruwa, Zimbabwe to perform the Lobola (Bride Price) Ceremony prior to the Western-style wedding ceremony they would have upon their return to Canada. The groom's father acts as the narrator in this cultural, social, and romantic expedition, taking us through the events leading up to and following the ceremony, and offering us a firsthand look at the often misunderstood and maligned ceremony itself. Between the often-amusing exploits of his Canadian family, experiencing the unpredictability of the African wildlife for the first time, and the historical insights he offers regarding the sometimes-surprising cultural differences they encounter, Jonas captures this pivotal period in his family's life with a unique narrative keepsake they will likely treasure for years to come. But it has a lot to offer those of us who aren't a part of this familial circle as well. Part romantic familial adventure and part anthropological study, Bride Price: Lobola Narrative and Interpretation is sure to engage your emotions, even as it informs.

Author : Ngcaweni, Busani
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780798304993

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Sizonqoba! Outliving AIDS in Southern Africa by Ngcaweni, Busani Pdf

The aim of this book is to better understand the phenomenon of HIV in a country that has faced the fullest might of the disease and yet, after first faltering, has made more progress than any other country in the world in its response to HIV. It aims to reflect the complexity of this narrative and the range of widely differing insights by featuring what is likely the largest number of contributors in a single publication on the subject in South Africa, as well as a full spectrum of specialised areas, ranging from high-end science to personal reflections.

Author : Eileen Jensen Krige,John L. Comaroff
Publisher : Cape Town : Juta
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015005259885

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Essays on African Marriage in Southern Africa by Eileen Jensen Krige,John L. Comaroff Pdf

Author : Kathleen Rice
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253066183

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Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa by Kathleen Rice Pdf

Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape roughly twenty years after the end of Apartheid. In post-Apartheid South Africa, rights-based public discourse and state practices promote liberal, autonomous, and egalitarian notions of personhood, yet widespread unemployment and poverty demand that people rely closely on one another and forge relationships that disrupt the gendered and generational hierarchies framed as traditional and culturally authentic. Kathleen Rice examines the ways these tensions and restructurings lead to uncertainties about how South Africans should live together in their daily lives, with particular implications for understanding and responding to widespread gendered and sexual conflict and violence. Focusing particularly on the women of the village of Mhlambini, Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa offers compelling portraits of how they experience and navigate widespread social and economic change and presents their experiences as a way of understanding how people navigate the moral ambiguities of contemporary South African life.