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1 online resource (xxii, 294 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Praise for Elain Salo and for this Book; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Sophie Oldfield. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; Desiree Lewis. Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape; Chapter 1 -- Manenberg -- An In-between Place with In-between People; A. Introduction; B. Autobiography and the research context: On being the 'native' anthropologist; C. Negotiating access to Manenberg; D. Learning about mothering in Manenberg; E. The theoretical debates about structure and agency in contemporary anthropology. |
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F. Power, agency and structureG. Personhood, agency and power; H. Personhood and agency in the context of a South African township; Chapter 2 -- Making Race, Making Space: Locating Coloureds in South African History and Urban Planning; A. Discourse and debate about race on the margins; B. Coloured in relation to which other? Depends on where you're coming from; C. Segregation and apartheid: the makings of the racially exclusive nation; D. Unifying white identity: the era of segregation; E. Making nations: Apartheid's imagined communities. |
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F. Racial stratification and urban space in Cape Town, 1800s-1980sG. Manenberg and the racial ideology of apartheid after 1950; Chapter 3 -- Clearing the Wilderness: Defining Identity from Within; A. Coming to Manenberg: Erased histories and displaced persons; B. The loss of personhood and identity; C. Peopling Manenberg: Stories of arrival; D. Clearing the social and natural wilderness: Defining colouredness in the new place; E. Defining identity from within the local spaces: A view from the periphery within. |
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F. Thirty years after the move: The economic and cultural aspects of identity in the local contextG. The economic capital of local identity; H. The spatial and temporal capital of identity: defining local communities; Chapter 4 -- Making Mothers, Producing Persons: The Gendered Ideology of Orality and Space in the Local Community; A. Gendering housing and welfare access, gendering household formation; B. Making moeder s: A daughter's rite of passage into adult womanhood; C. Policing the moral career: Maintaining respectable mothers. |
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D. Ordentlikheid : the ideological scaffolding of the moral economyE. Graciousness under fire: Stoic mothers encounter the state; F. The masks of respectability: Managing the suffering from within; G. Judging and mothering persons in the community; H. Conclusion; Chapter 5 -- Mans is ma soe: Men, Moeders and Ideologies of Masculinity; A. Strong bones: Making a coloured man.; B. Teaching toughness: Preparing boys for manhood; C. Becoming men through the moeders; D. Gendering boundaries, gendering persons: A lesson in defining community; E. Making 'n Ou : Gangs' rites of passage. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Social conditions.
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Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Social life and customs.
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Identity (Psychology) -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
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Identity (Psychology) |
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South Africa -- Cape Town. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Salo, R. Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters : Producing Persons in Manenberg Township South Africa. Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, ©2018 9789956550265 |
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9956550388 (electronic book) |
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9789956550388 (electronic book) |
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9789956550265 |
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9956550264 |
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