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    Gendered endings: Narratives of male and female suicides in the South African Lowveld

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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-012-9258-y. Copyright @ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.Durkheim’s classical theory of suicide rates being a negative index of social solidarity downplays the salience of gendered concerns in suicide. But gendered inequalities have had a negative impact: worldwide significantly more men than women perpetrate fatal suicides. Drawing on narratives of 52 fatal suicides in Bushbuckridge, South Africa, this article suggests that Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘symbolic violence’ and ‘masculine domination’ provide a more appropriate framework for understanding this paradox. I show that the thwarting of investments in dominant masculine positions have been the major precursor to suicides by men. Men tended to take their own lives as a means of escape. By contrast, women perpetrated suicide to protest against the miserable consequences of being dominated by men. However, contra the assumption of Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’, the narrators of suicide stories did reflect critically upon gender constructs

    Hunting for Tuna and Cash in the Solomons: A Rebirth of Artisanal Fishing in Malaita

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    The dynamics of Sa'a bonito hunting in Small Malaita in the Solomon Islands are examined in the dual context of Ru development & the growth of industrial fishing, focusing on how national development policies & the indigenous culture mediate the impact of industrialization of the Sa'a social economy. Discussed are: (1) the impact of commercial skipjack fishing on the village economy, (2) the historical decline of bonito hunting along the weathercoast of Small Malaita, & (3) its subsequent reemergence with the advent of cultural readjustment. The rebirth of the ritual hunt is set squarely & consciously within the context of self-development, & as such provides an example of the SE conditions necessary for the animation of a Ru development project. 21 References. Modified A

    A Boon for Old Times

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    Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar

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    is a professor of anthropology at the University of Miami special-izing in the character of globalization and its implications for politics and culture. He is the author of (2000) and the coauthor (with Benjamin Lee) of (2004) and the forthcoming (with Thomas Koelble). , a political scientist, teaches in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and studies economic globalization, democratic theory, and traditional leadership in South Africa. His publications include (1991) and (1998)
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