Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1892499
Roxanne Mathobie
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1888650
M. Robbins
violence in healthcare contexts — and of mothers doing everything possible to ensure their children’s care in the face of conflicting societal and financial pressures and conditions. The unequal burden of care on women — across generations — shows how significantly gendered the taking on of risk and sacrifice is when both household livelihoods and the vitality of care relationships are precarious. This collection of case studies leaves subtle spaces of connection between various discussions, such as evidenced in the moves between contested care roles when a teenager becomes a mother, discourses of risk surrounding certain “undesirable” pregnancies, and the idyllic picture of familial support around a heteronormative, middle-class white couple. At the admission of the editors (194), the book only implicitly highlights the skewed gendering of care-work towards women. The omission of a pointed discussion about gender seems strange given the presence of Chapter 4, “How Men Care,” entirely dedicated to men’s orientations to care, interestingly foregrounding the reflexive significance of masculinity in their care relations. Nonetheless, the brevity of the case study method renders this collection of contributions as an entry point to further critical analysis at the intersections of care, families, health and gender. Within each section critical insights and renewed questions arise, making for a rich point of reference for further inquiry. Connected Lives brings together an important range of sociological presentations of the constitution of care and well-being in families and households in South Africa. I strongly recommend this book to academics, care-work professionals, individuals involved in advocacy work and policymakers; it also holds valuable insights for care-workers like social workers, early childhood development practitioners and custodians of elder-care homes.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1895853
Elthéa de Ruiters
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1903332
B. Bodenstein
{"title":"The world in Guangzhou: Africans and other foreigners in South China’s global marketplace","authors":"B. Bodenstein","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2021.1903332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2021.1903332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"41 4","pages":"47 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23323256.2021.1903332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72478261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1893773
J. le Roux
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1906724
N. Mkhwanazi, L. Manderson
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1893772
F. Ross
is not unusual among the teenage parents themselves, as some of the other case studies suggest. The image of the caring teen father is a foreign one, even to many academic pieces on fatherhood and teenage parenting. Alison Swartz’s piece “Saving Face” (Case Study 4.2) further explores how fatherhood is important to the masculine self-image of teenaged fathers through the tale of Luyanda, who found he could perform a masculinity based on his virility through the “proof” of his child and his responsibility towards her. He contrasted this with his earlier experiences of masculinity within a gang and partying. For him, his new experience of masculinity sat as comfortably within his connection to Xhosa masculinity as his performative male strength and power as a gang member, as this essential “maleness” now came through in the shouldering of responsibility towards his child and girlfriend as a provider. When his girlfriend, Andiswa, sought the company of other men because of his inability to provide the kind of life she wanted, it was not only his masculine pride that was injured but his emotional well-being too. However, he remained determined to be a father figure for his daughter, the essence of masculinity to him (given the death of his own father). These case studies, and the accompanying theorisation, work to destabilise stereotypes which flourish inside and outside of academia. The idea of masculinity is reconceived in the plural, as masculinities, a multiplicity of affective experiences held by men as varied as their understandings of what it is to be a man. It is worth noting that not all forms of masculinity, or even its forms in Southern Africa, have been charted here, and there are some obvious omissions (such as queer, trans and gay fatherhood, so-called “upper-class” experiences of masculinity and white, Indian and other apparent racialised or cultural experiences of maleness). This is a striking gap in a conversation about masculinities. As Mkhwanazi and Manderson acknowledge, the scope of this book does not allow for a more extensive interrogation of masculinity but does reveal spaces for further academic enquiry. Connected Lives is both fascinating and well written. It is an excellent source for academics and students in the social sciences and those members of the public who are concerned with issues of public and community health, anthropology and sociology, as well as demographic studies more broadly.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1892498
D. Kudejira
This article examines the role of food in mediating social relations between undocumented Zimbabwean migrant farmworkers and other Zimbabweans living and working in the Blouberg and Molemole local municipalities in Limpopo province, South Africa. Based on ethnographic research, the article reveals that food, besides the utility of its physical matter as a necessity to satiate hunger, has a deeply embedded social meaning through which relations and modes of belonging can be expressed. This social meaning is best understood by invoking the concept ukama igasva hunozadziswa nekudya [a relationship is not complete until there is food]. Food mediates reciprocal social exchanges that lighten the burden of precarious working conditions associated with agricultural labour and reinforce a sense of belonging and oneness. Food also lubricates mutually supportive networks between undocumented farmworkers and Zimbabwean citizens working in other sectors. The article concludes that using ukama igasva hunozadziswa nekudya as an analytical concept provides rich explanations of the role of food in unifying the Zimbabwean migrant community in Limpopo. Food facilitates the production of macro-level connections in which individual Zimbabwean migrants, irrespective of their professional pursuits, identify with the larger network cluster based on citizenship.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1838308
Mark Marais
{"title":"The house of Tshatshu: power, politics and chiefs north-west of the Great Kei River c1818–2018","authors":"Mark Marais","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2020.1838308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2020.1838308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"40 1","pages":"268 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79788028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1857275
N. Shiweda
{"title":"The politics of custom: chiefship, capital, and the state in contemporary Africa","authors":"N. Shiweda","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2020.1857275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2020.1857275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"27 1","pages":"266 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89148391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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