"I dress in this fashion": women, the life-cycle, and the idea of SeSotho
Date
1992-09-21
Authors
James, Deborah
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Abstract
Anthropologists have become interested in "the colonisation of consciousness", and in the processes by which this colonization has been withstood. While some scholars have examined acts of resistance whose social and political effects were more easily measured, a longstanding concern of anthropologists has been the subtler means of defying domination, often through the
reassertion of apparently traditional cultural forms, with effects sometimes perceptible no more widely than within local communities themselves.
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African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 21 September, 1992
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Women, Sotho.Social life and customs, Sotho (African people). Social life and customs, Clothing and dress. Social aspects. South Africa, Life cycle, Human. Social aspects. South Africa