Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems
| dc.contributor.author | Russell, Margo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29T12:44:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-29T12:44:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-29T12:40:59Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral descent ensures a fairly standard pattern of coresidence, with predictable patterns of pooling resources. In contemporary southern Africa, the tradition of patrilineal descent entails a much wider set of options for co-residence as relatives disperse to make a living in the new global economy. The agnatic idiom continues to give coherence to volatile contingent Black households. The paper traces the distinctive historical roots of Western and African households and argues against the assumption that black South Africans are engaged in some sort of transition to a Western pattern. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Russell, M. (2004). <i>Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19338 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Russell, Margo <i>Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19338 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Russell, M. (2004). Understanding black households in Southern Africa: The African kinship and Western nuclear family systems. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-7992-2262-3 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Russell, Margo AB - Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral descent ensures a fairly standard pattern of coresidence, with predictable patterns of pooling resources. In contemporary southern Africa, the tradition of patrilineal descent entails a much wider set of options for co-residence as relatives disperse to make a living in the new global economy. The agnatic idiom continues to give coherence to volatile contingent Black households. The paper traces the distinctive historical roots of Western and African households and argues against the assumption that black South Africans are engaged in some sort of transition to a Western pattern. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 SM - 0-7992-2262-3 T1 - Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems TI - Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19338 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19338 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Russell M. Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems. 2004 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19338 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Households | |
| dc.subject.other | Family systems | |
| dc.title | Understanding Black Households in Southern Africa: The African Kinship and Western Nuclear Family Systems | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |