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Title: | Domestic Diversity and Fluidity among Some African Households in Greater Cape Town |
Authors: | Spiegel, Andrew D. Watson, Vanessa Wilkinson, Peter |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Social Dynamics |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Winter |
Pages: | 7-30 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | family urban households Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality Family Life urbanization |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533959608458599 |
Abstract: | The notion of 'domestic fluidity' has only lately acquired some academic currency, both as phenomenon and concept. The authors' interest in the problem of domestic group pliancy and labile household compositions derives from recognizing the problems of categorizing settlement processes within Cape Town's African population where both individuals and households seem to move almost continually. The authors explore the various ways in which domestic fluidity (or stability) has been experienced by people in a small sample of African households in Cape Town (South Africa), how different experiences reflect various consolidation strategies and trajectories, and how these might be related to broader processes of political and economic, as well as social and cultural change. The authors first review ways in which the concept of 'household' has been used in southern African anthropology. They then establish a definitional schema in order to distinguish between various dimensions of household formation, illustrating both the degree of differentiation that exists between the African households included in the sample and the way that this is related to processes of urbanization and consolidation. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |