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| Title: | Community, Family and Intimate Relationships: An Exploration of Domestic Violence in Griquatown, South Africa |
| Author: | Waldman, Linda |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Anthropology Southern Africa |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 3-4 |
| Pages: | 84-95 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | domestic violence gender relations interpersonal relations Griqua Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Law, Human Rights and Violence Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Family Life Health, Nutrition, and Medicine |
| Abstract: | This paper explores domestic violence in the rural location of Griquatown, South Africa. Although academics have long recognized that structural and cultural factors influence people's experience of domestic violence, not much has been written about the manner in which this happens. The paper explores how personal relationships intersect with broader cultural and structural forces and, in so doing, shape people's experience of domestic violence. The paper focuses on the life of one individual in order to demonstrate the multifaceted context in which domestic violence takes shape. By bringing together individual choices, self-representation, personal relations, ethnic identity and societal demands, the paper illustrates how domestic violence is contingent upon, or mitigated by, broader societal processes that impinge on or moderate the behaviour of individuals and their spouses. It argues that domestic violence is an ongoing process which results at the intersection between men's and women's personal quests to establish autonomy and collective processes that encourage conformity to 'ideal' ethnic categories and gendered social roles. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
