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Title: | Self-help associations |
Author: | Raum, O.F. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 119-142 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | self-help associations credit self-help Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020186908707307 |
Abstract: | Indicates what is taught in the associations of Zwelitsha (near King William's Town in the Eastern Gape) as 'schools of civilization' (term introduced by Wilson and Mafeje), who are the pupils and teachers, and what methods they use. The discussion is restricted to small associations of groups with less than a dozen members which teach the monetary system. Excluded are 'home-boy' groups, political parties, religious societies, entertainment unions, sports clubs, welfare societies. After a morphology of small groups having exclusively monetary purposes is dealt with the question of how far members of the small groups are aware of the limitation of numbers and how they justify it. Another problem examined is how the small groups solve the problem of leadership. The structural characteristics of the small groups are summarized and contrasted to those of larger associations. One particular problem is how in the process of arriving at decisions the introduction of members of small groups into the working of the money system is achieved. Concluded is with a discussion of the phase of acculturation through which residents in Zwelitsha are now passing. References. |