International Conference

28 May 2015, by Sarah Christine Raabe

"The Exceptional Normal: Change and Continuity in Southern African Marriages"

June 5th-June 7th 2015, University of Hamburg, Germany. (Conference Program)

Organizers: Julia Pauli and Rijk van Dijk

The opening lecture "Traditions of Kinship and Marriage in Southern Africa" of Prof. Dr. Adam Kupfer will take place as a free public lecture on June 5th 2015, 10:00-11:00 h, in room 221, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, west building.

Abstract:
Central features of the pre-conquest systems of kinship and marriage in Southeast Africa can be reconstructed with some confidence, and tied in with the structural dynamics of the chieftainships and with the symbolic dimensions of settlements. Certain aspects of 20th century developments may be understood as transformations of these structural forms.