Land as Home in South Africa: The Living and the Dead in Ritual Conversations

Apartheid segregated not only the living, but also the dead. Taking a wedding ritual as its departure point, the article explores the conversations between the living and the dead taking place in a redistributed farm in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Conviviality between the living and the dead challe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Agrarian south : journal of political economy 2020-12, Vol.9 (3), p.275-300
1. Verfasser: Borges, Antonádia
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Apartheid segregated not only the living, but also the dead. Taking a wedding ritual as its departure point, the article explores the conversations between the living and the dead taking place in a redistributed farm in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Conviviality between the living and the dead challenges the idea of pecuniary compensation as an adequate land reform policy insofar its beneficiary population expands to the infinite, including those now alive, the living who have already died, and those yet to be born. If these ritual conversations suggest that the past and future are experiential moments beyond what is lived today, it would appear our duty to devise alternatives to the linear, flat, and cumulative narratives that currently dominate our academic work and our political practice.
ISSN:2277-9760
2321-0281
DOI:10.1177/2277976020965796