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Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa
Dissertation (MSocSci (Anthropology))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/100910 Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa Krige, Detlev qvahed@gmail.com Vahed, Qudisiyah UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Casual leisure Friendship Anime Trading card games Urban anthropology Cities Work Kinship Dissertation (MSocSci (Anthropology))--University of Pretoria, 2024. This dissertation examines how adult trading card players in Gauteng form kinship and friendship ties with fellow urban residents through active participation in leisure activities hosted in privately owned trading card stores and organised globally by transnational corporations. Anthropologists have shown that formulations of kinship across the world are not confined to matters of blood, marriage or biology, and have documented a variety of kin-making practices that contribute to social reproduction. At the same time, recent contributions to the anthropology of leisure and popular culture encourage anthropologists not to view leisure as a passive act and not to think of consumers of leisure only as the ‘victims’ of corporations, but view leisure - even when organised privately and through corporations - as an expressive aspect of society which also contributes to social reproduction. Anthropologists also now argue that commodity exchange can achieve what earlier anthropologists ascribed exclusively to gift exchange, that is the formation of social ties. The literature also shows that social reproduction in urban contexts requires city residents and city dwellers to create new ways to make kin with strangers, and to turn strangers into friends. As such, this dissertation draws on empirical and ethnographic research conducted in Gauteng with adult players of trading card games to document how adults learn how to play trading card games, how players navigate and use the wider leisure scene including the two privately owned stores in which I conducted participant observation, how players create friend relationships through their participation in commoditised leisure. Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies MSocSci (Anthropology) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities None 2025-02-14T11:01:25Z 2025-02-14T11:01:25Z 2025-04 2024-11 Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100910 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28414034 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Casual leisure Friendship Anime Trading card games Urban anthropology Cities Work Kinship Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa |
| title | Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa |
| title_full | Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa |
| title_short | Serious leisure practices and kin-making amongst trading card players in urban Gauteng, South Africa |
| title_sort | serious leisure practices and kin making amongst trading card players in urban gauteng south africa |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Casual leisure Friendship Anime Trading card games Urban anthropology Cities Work Kinship |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100910 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28414034 |