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dc.contributor.author | Niehaus, I | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-30T12:36:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-30T12:36:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Anthropology Southern Africa, 33 (1): pp. 1 - 22, (2016) | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2332-3256 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13553 | - |
dc.description | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Anthropology Southern Africa on 2112/2016, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2016.1243449 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In this article I consider the significance of marriage from the vantage point of children’s affiliation to domestic units during the era of South Africa’s AIDS pandemic. Drawing on multi-temporal fieldwork in Impalahoek, a village in the Bushbuckridge municipality of the South African Lowveld, I suggest that AIDS-related diseases and deaths have led to the further erosion of marriage, and to the greater absence of fathers in the lives of children. However, these changes have not precipitated a crisis in childcare. A survey of 22 households shows that orphaned children are generally cared for by related adults, such as matrikin and older female siblings. These arrangements are a product of a long history of improvisations, necessitated by experiences of oscillating labour migration. Moreover, they are facilitated by a diffusion of parental obligations, which is a central tenet of Northern Sotho and Shangaan models of kinship. I argue that in an economy of high unemployment and dependence upon state instituted social security systems, marriage does not appear to be decisive to children’s welfare. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1 - 22 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Anthropology Southern Africa on 2112/2016, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2016.1243449 | en_US |
dc.subject | Marriage | en_US |
dc.subject | Kinship | en_US |
dc.subject | Childcare | en_US |
dc.subject | Orphans | en_US |
dc.subject | Social grants | en_US |
dc.subject | HIV/AIDS | en_US |
dc.subject | Bushbuckridge | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | Marriage, Kinship and Childcare in the Aftermath AIDS: Rethinking Orphanhood in the South African Lowveld | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Anthropology Southern Africa | - |
pubs.issue | 1 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | - |
pubs.volume | 33 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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