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Madumo

Madumo. Urban migration and employment Kinship and Elders Witchcraft: Why is it increasing? How is it a modern phenomenon? Christianity as an African religion: The Localization of a Global Religion. Control of Black Urban Migration. Pass laws Townships Effects:

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Madumo

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  1. Madumo Urban migration and employment Kinship and Elders Witchcraft: Why is it increasing? How is it a modern phenomenon? Christianity as an African religion: The Localization of a Global Religion

  2. Control of Black Urban Migration • Pass laws • Townships Effects: • Residential segregation by race • Urban dwellers overwhelmingly male and young (especially in the beginning) • Strong social ties between rural and urban areas • Why does Madumo need his rural kin? • How do they need him?

  3. The Informal Economy Madumo is 33 years old, has worked 3 months; how does he survive? For women: shebeens (MaDudu), buying and plucking of chickens (MaMfete), making doilies (Madumo’s mother) For men: security (watchmen), selling firecrackers on the street, selling drugs to prisoners, selling counterfeit money, selling used clothes And of course: healing. And mooching off friends and family.

  4. Soweto as multilinguistic, multiethnic • Madumo’s ethnicity? • What languages does he speak? • His friend Mpho is? • Mr. Zondi’s ethnicity? • MaMfete’s ethnicity? • Lingua franca of Soweto is? • Translators common: ZCC, p. 171; Mogomotse’s funeral, p. 190 • The innovation caused by the interaction makes healers’ lives difficult: p. 188

  5. Madumo’s family • Patrilineal? Matrilineal? Bilateral? • Patrilocal? Matrilocal? Neolocal? • Brideprice? Dowry? Bride service?

  6. Ancestors as (Deceased) Elders,Elders as Still-Living Ancestors • The spiritual protection of Madumo’s mother, protecting them from father’s family • The authority of “the granny” p. 210 • Yet ambiguous: p. 83, p. 215 • Significance of graves as place to communicate with the ancestors, p. 237

  7. South African police investigating Mandela grandson in grave disputeJuly 2013

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