Women in patriarchy in Lesotho: a deconstructive study
| dc.contributor.advisor | Erasmus, P. A. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Molapo, Ethel Lea 'M'ajonathane | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-15T10:39:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-15T10:39:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | en_ZA |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D. (Anthropology))--University of the Free State, 2005 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 The motivation for this study was a realization of the need to seek from the perspectives of both males and females the different meanings and experiences of patriarchy. Through reviewing existing feminist theories and explanations in Anthropology it became clear that the focus is, to a large extent, only on female views and experiences. The phenomena of patriarchy can thus not be understood and interpreted in terms of the total socio-cultural context which encompasses it. As is suggested by the title of the thesis, Lesotho was chosen as the research area. Lesotho has a pre-industrial, migrant labour driven, subsistence economy where traditional values seem still very much reflecting on gender relations. The study was conducted in Peka, in the Leribe district, where six villages were selected. The research took as its point of departure an insider perspective. The emphasis, therefore, was on data collecting by means of unstructured interviewing, participant observation and life histories. Regarding the analysis and interpretation of the qualitative data, an inductive analytical strategy was followed. Apart from that, an important emphasis was placed on deconstruction. Surprisingly handbooks on social research are not dealing with the topic and guidelines for practical application almost do not exist. Therefore, it was necessary to develop an own methodological approach. The deconstruction of ethnographic texts provided access to the mode in which patriarchy is/was constructed, constituted and entrenched in Basotho customs, beliefs, practices, social relations, family life and institutions. It detects the shifted, deferred and concealed meanings of patriarchy, it reveals that patriarchy hinders gender equality and that it has several facets, and that male and female informants viewed, understood, explained and experienced patriarchy differently. In conclusion, the possibilities, on the one hand, for future research on the methodological refinement of the deconstruction of ethnographic texts, as well as on the other hand, the challenges to the Basotho government and society in order to address gender discrepancies and inequalities, are adumbrated. ___________________________________________________________________ | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒌𝒂𝒂𝒏𝒔 Die motivering vir hierdie studie was ‘n besef van die nodigheid om uit perspektiewe van beide mans en vrouens, die verskillende betekenisse en ervarings van ‘n patriargale regeringsvorm te soek. Deur die beskouing van bestaande feministe-teorieë en verduidelikings in Antropologie het dit duidelik geword dat die fokus in ‘n groot mate slegs op vroulike oogpunte en ervarings is. Die verskynsels van patriargale regeringsvorms kan daarom nie verstaan en geïnterpreteer word in terme van die totale sosiaalkulturele konteks wat dit omvat nie. Soos te kenne gegee in die titel van die tesis is Lesotho as die navorsingsarea gekies. Lesotho het ‘n pre-industriële, rondtrekkende arbeidsgedrewe bestaansekonomie, waar tradisionele waardes steeds ‘n weerspieëling van geslagsverhoudings blyk te wees. Die studie is uitgevoer in Peka, in die Leribe-distrik, waar ses dorpies geselekteer is. Die navorsing het as vertrekpunt die perspektief geneem van ‘n lid van die binnekring. Die klem was daarom op die versameling van data deur middel van ongestruktureerde onderhoudsvoering, deelnemende waarneming en lewensgeskiedenisse. Wat betref die analisering en interpretering van die kwalitatiewe data, is ‘n induktiewe analitiese strategie gevolg. Benewens dit is ‘n belangrike klem op dekonstruksie gelê. Dit is verbasend dat handboeke oor sosiale navorsing nie hierdie onderwerp aanspreek nie en riglyne vir praktiese toepassing bestaan feitlik nie. Om die rede was dit nodig om ‘n eie metodologiese benadering te ontwikkel. Die dekonstruksie van etnografiese tekste het toegang tot die manier waarop patrialgale regeringsvorms gekonstrueer, gekonstitueer en verskans word/is in Basotho-gebruike, -geloof, -praktyke, sosiale verhoudings, -gesins- lewe en –instellings verskaf. Dit ontdek die veranderde, uitgebreide en verborge betekenisse van die patriargale regeringsvorm; dit toon aan dat ‘n patrialgale regeringsvorm geslagsgelykheid verhinder, dat dit verskeie fasette het en dat manlike en vroulike informante patriargale gesag verskillend beskou, verstaan, verduidelik en ervaar. Samevattend word die moontlikhede vir toekomstige navorsing oor die metodologiese verfyning van die dekonstruksie van etnografiese tekste, aan die een kant, asook die uitdagings vir die Basotho-regering en –samelewing ten einde geslagsteenstrydighede en –ongelykhede aan te spreek, aan die ander kant, aangedui. ___________________________________________________________________ | af_ZA |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Lesotho Government | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/7608 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Abstract in other languages 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘢𝘯𝘴 | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Patriarchy | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Gender inequality | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Anthropological perspectives | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Feminist theories | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Post-modernism | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Deconstruction | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Life histories | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Patriarchy -- Lesotho | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Social institutions -- Lesotho | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Women -- Lesotho -- Social conditions | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Women in patriarchy in Lesotho: a deconstructive study | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |