In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past
decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of …

This paper explores how, in countries in the global south where sharp rises in indebtedness
have accompanied the financialization of the economy, debt factors into other relationships …

The payment of bridewealth or lobola is a longstanding cultural practice that has persisted in
South Africa despite significant societal shifts over the past two decades. Lobola has always …

As one of the primary personal sites of financial investment, expression and public
performance, housing has stood at the centre of contemporary studies of class in Africa. This …

While it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa—including Botswana—
weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to …

This essay proposes an analytical framework for studying the emergent cultural formation
around eating and drinking that we call Global Brooklyn. It is a recurring, vaguely codified …

This article explores why people in Namibia go into debt to eat. Until recently, food sharing
practices were maintained by social relationships in which everyone owed everyone else …

It is generally agreed that rates of marriage are declining in Southern Africa. It is also clear
that for people who are wealthy enough to marry, the long-standing constitution of marriage …

Marriage globally is undergoing profound change, provoking widespread public comment
and concern. Through the close ethnographic examination of case studies drawn from …

Globally, marriage is on a decline and this can be traced to as early as the 1940s in South
Africa. This paper explores marriage declines in South Africa, specifically the reasons why …