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Workers and warriors: Inkatha's politics of masculinity in the 1980's
Journal of contemporary African studies • 17 (2) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 197-216
By: Waetjen, Thembisa, Maré, Gerhard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article investigates the ways in which gender and race are evoked in Inkatha's militant ethnic politics and how its conception of Zuluness and of blackness were bound up with the issues of manliness and male mobilization. The authors note the need to relate Inkatha's mobilization narratives of the 1980s to historical and structural realities that made an impact on the geographical and social positioning of men in relation to ethnic politics, to modes of production and vis-á-vis relations of gender. This study examines how masculinities, 'men's places and practices in the large social framework of gender relations', are accommodated and newly defined within the political discourse of Inkatha (pp. 197-198)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Ownership and control of capital
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zulu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thembisa Waetjen and Gerhard Maré
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216 p.)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zulu (African people)