Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia

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dc.contributor.advisorWest, Martinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDentlinger, Ursulaen_ZA
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dc.date.available2016-11-07T17:44:11Z
dc.date.issued1983en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 220-231.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study seeks to explain the unusually high rate of circulation of individuals between local domestic units of the rural settlements along the Kuiseb River as well as between these and domestic units in the closest urban centre. It is argued that these movements form part of a general state of flexibility of personal relationships, which subsequently affects household composition. An explanation for this flexibility is suggested in terms of one strategy of survival pursued by relatively poor individuals, which involves the sporadic attachment by poorer individuals to relatively more economically stable relatives. As these attachments, whether residential or not, are of short duration, they produce rapid and unpredictable changes to the composition of existing households. Material is presented of three areas of social life illustrating these sporadically shifting alignments. These areas are subsistence relations, conjugal relations and parent-child relations. These examples of sporadic shifts of domestic alignments are contrasted with a few examples where households were seen to show facets of cyclical changes in their social composition. Evidence suggests that these few households were headed by economically secure individuals, who also reflect a considerable stability in their residence. The question is raised whether a cyclical development of domestic groups can be recorded in situations as flexible and variable as those along the Kuiseb River. This in turn raises the issue of the usefulness of a framework postulating such a development.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationDentlinger, U. (1983). <i>Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22432en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDentlinger, Ursula. <i>"Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 1983. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22432en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDentlinger, U. 1983. Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Dentlinger, Ursula AB - This study seeks to explain the unusually high rate of circulation of individuals between local domestic units of the rural settlements along the Kuiseb River as well as between these and domestic units in the closest urban centre. It is argued that these movements form part of a general state of flexibility of personal relationships, which subsequently affects household composition. An explanation for this flexibility is suggested in terms of one strategy of survival pursued by relatively poor individuals, which involves the sporadic attachment by poorer individuals to relatively more economically stable relatives. As these attachments, whether residential or not, are of short duration, they produce rapid and unpredictable changes to the composition of existing households. Material is presented of three areas of social life illustrating these sporadically shifting alignments. These areas are subsistence relations, conjugal relations and parent-child relations. These examples of sporadic shifts of domestic alignments are contrasted with a few examples where households were seen to show facets of cyclical changes in their social composition. Evidence suggests that these few households were headed by economically secure individuals, who also reflect a considerable stability in their residence. The question is raised whether a cyclical development of domestic groups can be recorded in situations as flexible and variable as those along the Kuiseb River. This in turn raises the issue of the usefulness of a framework postulating such a development. DA - 1983 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1983 T1 - Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia TI - Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22432 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/22432
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDentlinger U. Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 1983 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22432en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.titleSocial and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibiaen_ZA
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